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Update on https://www.customerssuck.com/board/...-it-should-fit
This place has kept in my thoughts... I know it has been a long time but life has conspired against me and I went to some really dark places emotionally and financially through the last few years.
The Plastic Lady lost. She managed to drag her lawsuit out for a ridiculously long time but ultimately lost, She tried everything from defamation to blaming her divorce on our shop. We counter sued and that took a long time just because she tugged legal shenanigans to a point of absurdity. Judge awarded us $15,000 but we haven't seen a dime and have been told without a sugar daddy she has nothing to go after and we'll not likely see a penny.
Oh, and she put on SO MUCH WEIGHT. She went from sawhorse to vixen to walrus. I'd feel bad saying so if she didn't deserve it. I don't know what happened with her husband but he got the dresses and I don't know what he did with them. I also don't care. But he deserved better than what he got put through. We all did.
We closed doors at the shop a while back due to a mixture of skyrocketing property prices, growing competition from etsy, alibaba and similar sorts, a car crash that happened in the interim where I injured my spine and broke my hand and last but not least, growing malaise dealing with people. I adore cosplay and all but no, I can't make you a full (insert name of popular anime character with 5 foot long shoulder-pauldrons here) costume for $100 by whatever convention next weekend.
Though seriously, mad approval for the cosplay crowd. The stuff folks do now with various materials is inspiring but I feel like a gorilla in a glass blowing competition seeing some of the stuff these people do with floor mats and plastic bottles. I can't keep up with the market and honestly I'm ok with that.
Doesn't feel like I won, but I got through to the other side at least. We survived.
It kind of worked out though, I picked up a job making neat stuff I actually legally can't talk about. It's fulfilling work and I don't have to deal with the front end anymore. Lots more bureaucracy but people can't argue with CAD drawings. Feel more like a corporate mook but paychecks are consistent if not robust. Plus I get to see things the size of buildings launch into space as a fringe benefit. Can't complain about that!
I also took some of all your advice and started doing volunteer work and teach sewing as a community outreach program. Feels good doing that sort of stuff and not worrying about price tags and deadlines. Seeing an elderly woman's face light up as she finishes a quilt for her first grand daughter is quite fulfilling and feels so wholesome. If someone wants a Victorian-era coat with a 12 foot tail I can show them how to use a sewing machine and it's kind of both vindicating and heart warming seeing people understand what it takes to make a costume and, now and again, fills my heart with pride when someone finishes a project and gives an ACTUAL heart felt thank you.
This place has kept in my thoughts... I know it has been a long time but life has conspired against me and I went to some really dark places emotionally and financially through the last few years.
The Plastic Lady lost. She managed to drag her lawsuit out for a ridiculously long time but ultimately lost, She tried everything from defamation to blaming her divorce on our shop. We counter sued and that took a long time just because she tugged legal shenanigans to a point of absurdity. Judge awarded us $15,000 but we haven't seen a dime and have been told without a sugar daddy she has nothing to go after and we'll not likely see a penny.
Oh, and she put on SO MUCH WEIGHT. She went from sawhorse to vixen to walrus. I'd feel bad saying so if she didn't deserve it. I don't know what happened with her husband but he got the dresses and I don't know what he did with them. I also don't care. But he deserved better than what he got put through. We all did.
We closed doors at the shop a while back due to a mixture of skyrocketing property prices, growing competition from etsy, alibaba and similar sorts, a car crash that happened in the interim where I injured my spine and broke my hand and last but not least, growing malaise dealing with people. I adore cosplay and all but no, I can't make you a full (insert name of popular anime character with 5 foot long shoulder-pauldrons here) costume for $100 by whatever convention next weekend.
Though seriously, mad approval for the cosplay crowd. The stuff folks do now with various materials is inspiring but I feel like a gorilla in a glass blowing competition seeing some of the stuff these people do with floor mats and plastic bottles. I can't keep up with the market and honestly I'm ok with that.
Doesn't feel like I won, but I got through to the other side at least. We survived.
It kind of worked out though, I picked up a job making neat stuff I actually legally can't talk about. It's fulfilling work and I don't have to deal with the front end anymore. Lots more bureaucracy but people can't argue with CAD drawings. Feel more like a corporate mook but paychecks are consistent if not robust. Plus I get to see things the size of buildings launch into space as a fringe benefit. Can't complain about that!
I also took some of all your advice and started doing volunteer work and teach sewing as a community outreach program. Feels good doing that sort of stuff and not worrying about price tags and deadlines. Seeing an elderly woman's face light up as she finishes a quilt for her first grand daughter is quite fulfilling and feels so wholesome. If someone wants a Victorian-era coat with a 12 foot tail I can show them how to use a sewing machine and it's kind of both vindicating and heart warming seeing people understand what it takes to make a costume and, now and again, fills my heart with pride when someone finishes a project and gives an ACTUAL heart felt thank you.
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