As many regular customers at Bettie's may have noticed, I've produced very little since me and Jac initially openined the store in the summer of 2005, where as Jac on the other hand has kept a steady creative flow going, much to her credit. Sales have declined in that time, even to the point of me considering throwing in the towel only recently, and so there will be a few changes at Bettie's in the near future if I'm to continue creating for SL...
Firstly, me and Jac are probably going to go our separate ways, purely for practical reasons - neither of us are online much, and usually at different times, and as such co-ordinating the shop together and maintaining financial responsibilities is difficult.
Secondly, we may be closing the main shop in Roosa and opting for cheaper shop locations hosted by others, in the process eliminating the risk of us losing plots and rental places due to unexpected time offline. I have already closed some shops recently, also, in light of the seeming lack of protection of content creator's artistic rights, I won't be parting with money to LL for mainland, so my store situation will be minimal at best for a while at least. At the end of the day this is a business, and I do hope to make a profit, but I won't support that which I disagree with in principle, whether it be because of poor treatment towards me or my friends, or bad business ethics.
However, I plan (or at least hope) to be more productive in the coming weeks, I'm hoping to do some more cross-over items to coincide with my new shop location at Bruin (see my SL profile for a link), this will draw some kind of line between the stores 'The Hat Shop' and 'Resurrection', between which my new (if temporary) store is located. Retro is still the name of the game, but palso stretching a little later than the original 30's-50's bracket, inluding some of my own 'RL' influences (as suggested by my 'Victorian Boots' also being sold at Resurrection - a popular 80's Goth fashion item), but also heading back to incorporate the 1920's at some point also. Again, these will be mostly shoes and prim items, possibly a couple of exceptions.
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