Our busy season continues...

The clock is ticking down toward the opening weekend of the Kansas City Renaissance Festival, where we own a booth.  It is without question our single biggest event of the year for our business so we're making tankards as fast as we can. We have the world's most awesome husband-wife team of booth managers who sell for us.  If you're in the area, stop in at booth #400 (we're called Tri Canis Nox - now figure out what that means) and say hello to them!

But meanwhile back at the ranch, we're frantically working on a production run of 500 pieces to get to KC before the doors open on Labor Day weekend.  All four of us have been involved in the production.

And this is part of the result.  Here's what our upstairs work room looked like this afternoon.  In other words, a mess.

While the girls and I are upstairs working on various aspects of the production, my poor husband was in the shop cutting 500 handles.  Oh my.  Tedious at best.

We'll get it done.  We always do.  These pieces will be shipped in time for the opening weekend.  Then it's constant 150 to 200 piece production runs with weekly shipments to KC until mid-October, when the Festival ends.  After that - we collapse!

I'm baaaaAAAAaaack....

Well, yesterday was it. We shipped the last of the boxes to the Kansas City Renaissance Festival, thus marking the Official End of our busy season, as well as the Official End of most of our income until next April or so. But that's okay - we're used to living with income that fluctuates wildly. Seasonable businesses train you to be frugal in the extreme, and we'll be fine until things pick up in the spring.

I have a boatload of stuff backed up which I've been wanting to post on the blog, and I'll get to it as time permits in the next few days.

(big sigh of relief) Man it's good to be back!

Sorry for the silence

We're having a loopy week since this is the last push before the end of the Kansas City Renaissance Festival. Yesterday we worked a thirteen hour day and tumbled into bed exhausted. I have tons of stuff to post here on the blog but no time in which to do it.

Stand by...and thanks for being patient.