Things are going quite swimmingly!
This Monday marked the beginning. "The beginning of what?" you say. The beginning of the beginning, of course.
Tae quit the soul-sucking job at MicroHell last Friday, enjoyed a nice weekend and then started work with me on Monday. I've been teaching her how to make the Maeve's Unmentionables line over the past several months, beginning with the simplest pieces and working up to the more difficult ones. Monday we began the Feluna bodice. She's now drafted out two and they're almost finished! They look really good. So, hurray!
Moving at this pace, I'm guessing about 5, possibly 6 weeks to hammer out the backlog of orders and then we'll both have a goodly amount of time for creating all new stuff! Whee!! And that's including taking weekends to work on new designs. ~bounce~ I've been able to see the light at the end of the tunnel for quite awhile, but now I can actually see the scenery! Heady stuff.
By the end of this year Maeve's will have a new look and be much more streamlined in addition to having a huge influx of new items available. After three years of making the same things day in and day out, it's terribly exciting to contemplate spending time in the creative design phase again. It doesn't matter how much you love your work, when you're doing the exact same thing day after day, it eventually becomes dull.
So here's to no more dullness in the workplace!! Hurray!!
Tae quit the soul-sucking job at MicroHell last Friday, enjoyed a nice weekend and then started work with me on Monday. I've been teaching her how to make the Maeve's Unmentionables line over the past several months, beginning with the simplest pieces and working up to the more difficult ones. Monday we began the Feluna bodice. She's now drafted out two and they're almost finished! They look really good. So, hurray!
Moving at this pace, I'm guessing about 5, possibly 6 weeks to hammer out the backlog of orders and then we'll both have a goodly amount of time for creating all new stuff! Whee!! And that's including taking weekends to work on new designs. ~bounce~ I've been able to see the light at the end of the tunnel for quite awhile, but now I can actually see the scenery! Heady stuff.
By the end of this year Maeve's will have a new look and be much more streamlined in addition to having a huge influx of new items available. After three years of making the same things day in and day out, it's terribly exciting to contemplate spending time in the creative design phase again. It doesn't matter how much you love your work, when you're doing the exact same thing day after day, it eventually becomes dull.
So here's to no more dullness in the workplace!! Hurray!!