How's that for a title?
We've been stewing on things for quite awhile here at The Blue Swirl.
We began this journey with the intention of having a creative outlet and providing quality products for little ones.
That's still our intention.
We've learned a lot over the past seven months and we've made changes along the way, striving for the best quality in the timeliest manner. But that's proven difficult with two little ones at home and now a surprise third baby on the way. I'm the only one who does the sewing and with pregnancy comes fatigue (and with the addition of our third child in June, the fatigue won't likely change any time soon, ha!). My old late-night hours have been completely cut out as bed calls my name at 8:00. That leaves me nap time and weekends, which has just not proven to be enough time to sustain the current workload.
My turnaround times are growing and while I adore what I do, I don't adore making our customers wait four weeks or longer to get a TBS creation.
After a lot of thought over the past four months, I've made the ultimate decision to change our business model.
Rather than offer made-to-order only, we are going to focus on keeping up a stock so that when you order, your item(s) will ship right away. We realize this will carry its own set of hiccups as we won't always be able to stock every item in every size (in fact, we will probably rarely have every size in stock). For this reason, we will still offer customs but their turnaround times will be long and they will cost a bit more.
We are also going to start focusing much more on baby and children's accessories, as they don't require different sizing and can be kept in stock more readily. We know this might be disappointing to some and we want to offer our GREATEST apologies to anyone who is disappointed by this! Please trust that all of these decisions were made with YOU in mind, so that we no longer have to put a four week wait time on every order that goes out our door.
As we begin to offer more accessories and fewer clothing, we hope that you'll keep us in mind for baby shower gifts or as you expand your own family. As always, thank you SO much for your continued support! Without you, we would truly be nothing!
Finally, for the exciting news we've been waiting to share for literally six months now, we are going to begin donating a portion of all proceeds to two organizations we love and want to support: An Orphan's Wish and Warm Blankets.
These two organizations help support orphans and orphanages, something my husband and I feel so passionately about. Adoption is something near and dear to our hearts and though we aren't actively seeking to adopt in the immediate future, it is a dream of ours we hope to make a reality. In the mean time, we want to do our part to help support orphans in need.
Please take a minute to visit these two sites, linked above, and read about their missions and the incredible, selfless work they do. Maybe you even want to get involved?
Additionally, we'll be starting up an adoption fundraiser soon, where families seeking to adopt can raise funds selling our products that we'll offer at deep discounts.
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