Lori is a business woman; it is her profession. No one in their right mind would
volunteer to furnish about $500 seed money for 100 tees (usual minimum order to
have a variety of sizes), have them printed, store, and mail them without
personal compensation, IMO.
Well, I might have been able to "stretch" to the seed money (the early response had been reasonably good; I might have gotten it back in time to re-apply to the OIDFA/Prague Congress <g>), though, originally, I volunteered only the design and the execution of the *lace* for the T-shirt. And, although I consider myself reasonably sane, I wasn't looking for compensation -- just thought it would be fun.
Betty Ann is right -- there's no way I can handle all the rest of the logistics of such an enterprise -- the printing, the storing (in a smoker's house?!?!?) and the mailing (the pitfals inherent in international mailing are mind-boggling. Yet, most of the "I'd like one" responses had been from abroad). And, even before the printing, the layout -- not possible with the very tenuous connections my various bits of machinery possess (not to mention my total lack of "puter savvy"); there's a price one pays for owning a Mac OSX (and relative freedom from viruses), and lack of software/hardware is one "manifestation".
So, I'm bowing out... I'm already almost a year behind on "delivering" on the "2-Pr Inventions" promise, and I'm not going to take on another one that I'm likely to screw up; I *hate* having "moral debts"... I still think the *idea* (been there, done that, got the T-shirt) was good, but the practicalities of it are way beyond me; I'm sorry.
If anyone wants to take over the project, I'll stand behind what I'd promised earlier: I'll design and make the lace (free of charge), but that's all I can promise *and* "deliver"
----- Tamara P Duvall Lexington, Virginia, USA Formerly of Warsaw, Poland http://lorien.emufarm.org/~tpd/
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