The world does not revolve around you.

Day 12 at work, day 4 blog.

Ah. It's so easy to say out loud how "the world does not revolve around you" rather than actually realizing it for yourself. Maybe for some of you, it's always been clear- not for me I guess!

Today, I held a meeting with my collegues who deals with the merchandising sides of things. So far, I've not mentioned what I'm trying to order and put into "my" boutique... so here goes: I intend to deliver a minimum of 4 different designs of tableware, a few tea sets and some gorgeous lasercut wooly textured placemats. Not too many designs, but they're all very pretty. =) "My" boutique is all about quality, not quantity.

Since I decided not to have too many different types of designs, I thought to myself, yeh!- it's going to be easy to put in orders. COMPLETELY WRONG. I never thought how ordering is so time consuming!! Those who do not know so much about ceramics, let me teach (with my few days of knowlege- ha!). Well, they have to find the base, what the chinese call "bat toy"-> which is white base. This base has a minimum ordering quantity, starting at probably hundreds, if not thousands. With my boutique being technically a boutique... what on earth am I going to do with 1000 base plates?! Surely, I won't be selling that many straight away? This is a boutique, not John Lewis!!
Ok, now if you have found the white base, e.g. white fine bone china (beaut stuff!), hopefully not in quantities that are in 4 digit figures... you then need to find the graphical sheets to print your designs ontop.... e.g. if you want a Easter Bunny Rabbit on your plate, it does not come that way out of the oven.......... you need to burn and press these graphical sheets ontop of the white base, to give you those pretty graphics on your pretty plate. Lost yet?

So. All this quoting and chasing has taken so much longer than I thought, and my early launch in May seems rather... tight! Even if I want all these cups and saucers infront of me right now, I can't because factories can't get back to me on my minimum ordering quantity. =( mega sad. I want to know exactly what I can order so I can start sharing with you guys the products!! =)

As for the shop name.............................. It's still undecided!! =( Note- never use the obvious names like heima (german) , la casa (spanish), jia (chinese), etc... the domain names are allllllllll gone!!! help anyone?