VERY IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: This has been a rather long time coming to tell the truth. It’s been something that I have been grappling with for a while now and it’s been a VERY difficult decision to make but one that had to be made. It’s with a heavy heart that I have to tell you that Avaeli Cards is closing and I’m afraid that this will be happening very swiftly. This week will be my last week working on orders and as of next week I will cease trading. I have some loose ends to tie up, and I’ve tried/will try to contact as many of you as I possibly can but I’m afraid that this is the end of the road for my little business. If you have paid for an order this week please, PLEASE do not panic, your orders are secure and being worked on currently, they will be dispatched just as soon as they are finished. My page won’t be disappearing for a few weeks yet so please rest assured that your paid order is completely safe. I have tried to do what I can to prevent this – I really cut back on all of the extra work such as Flash Sales and Buy It Now pieces, I tried to limit the amount of emails that I sent, I tried to reduce my order book where possible and I stopped booking in custom orders with the thought that I could perhaps just sell ready made pieces. After a lot of thought this really was the only decision that would work. Over the past few months it is has gotten harder and harder to find the love that I once had for this. My children are growing up before my eyes and I am spending increasingly less and less time with them, one day I’m going to turn around and they’ll be grown and I’ll have missed it all. I know that with any job that happens, and I have to work to earn money, that much is true, but when you spend 70 hours a week holed up in a room earning less than minimum wage and missing out on all of those precious moments it starts to really take a toll. Add to the fact the heartache of others constantly copying the designs I have worked tirelessly on it all makes for a rather unhappy working life with a very poor work/life balance. As the saying goes; ‘Never get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life’. If I ever had even the slightest bit of doubt as to whether I’m making the right decision or not, the smiles on my children’s faces, the squeals of utter delight from them and my son saying with a grin ‘So you can do things with us ALL the time’ when I told them that I was going to stop working were enough to assure me that I am absolutely making the right decision for my family. Please don’t think that I ever have, or would ever, take you all and your lovely custom for granted, I have been SO blessed along this journey, not only with lovely customers and orders, but with lovely friends too. I have been so honoured to make all of your gorgeous orders over the past three years and the business grew far beyond what I ever thought it would, I certainly didn’t ever imagine that I would be as busy as I have been and I will always be so incredibly grateful for that. I know that many of you will be disappointed and I am sure some will be angry too, and I apologise from the bottom of my heart for that, truly I do. I hope that you will be able to forgive me, maybe not straight away, but hopefully in time. The page will be open for a few weeks longer whilst I’m winding things down and I will also be selling off quite a lot of my stock/tools so I won’t disappear for a little while. I hope that some of you will still give me a wave over on my foodie page Kymmys Kitchen itchen as there’s so many of you that I’d love to keep in touch with and I will of course be popping up on my favourite pages with a wave and a cheer. I genuinely hope that the majority of you will understand why I have had to make this decision, and I hope you know that this has been very hard for me to do. There have been tears, sleepless nights, a LOT of talking and going back and forth - but when it came down to it, this really was the only decision that I could make. Thank you again for giving me the most wonderful three years, there will never be enough words to express how grateful I truly am. With much love, Kymmy. X
Posted on: Wed, 07 May 2014 13:15:33 +0000
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