Into The Light

Thanks in no small part to your many supportive comments, I have climbed out from under the rock. Don't get me wrong, the package is still missing and I am still devastated in particular by the loss of this mask. So let us all say a fond farewell to the missing mask. Perhaps this is only goodbye until we meet again or perhaps some idiot nicked the package you were in and dumped you not knowing your worth. At least I have pictures to remind me.

Well, around nine or ten yesterday morning, I sucked it up and realized that while I have to accept that there is nothing I can do about the missing package that doesn't mean that it is the end of this journey. I pulled myself together, took inventory of what I did have made and sent a message back to the designer offering to replace what I can with other styles. Now, I know some of you have worried that this is an elaborate scam to get free goods out of me, but honestly she was as worried about the missing package as me, never asked for her money back and even expressed that she had no more budget to pay for more pieces when I offered replacements. I should get some of my money back from the USPS claim that I can't file for like 20 days, but that's really not the point here. I was offered an opportunity that someone like me is unlikely to be offered again and I think I would be a fool not to pursue that as long as I can. No one ever made it by giving up...unless they have, but they shouldn't have...you get the point.

So I am working like a madwoman to see how many pieces I can get done by Thursday when I will overnight...UPS time, all the pieces for the show. The wunderkammer will rest and I will tat all day even during school time and hopefully I can replace much of the original order. I am still holding out hope that the original package will be found, but as someone once said, 'You can't put the shit back in.' All we can do is move forward with the knowledge painfully earned. So I'm off to tat.