so one of my major new year’s res­o­lu­tions was to increase the num­ber of venue’s that carry my {dani keith designs}…and if i am painfully hon­est, this task is daunt­ing, scary and well pretty much a guar­an­teed exer­cise in rejec­tion, but none the less in order to grow we much ven­ture out into the world and if it wasn’t scary it wouldn’t be worth doing…so with gump­tion and gusto and my pro­tec­tive armor i sub­mit­ted my work…now i sent the pitch email to two bou­tiques on a sat­ur­day evening fully antic­i­pat­ing that i would be wait­ing at least 2 weeks for a response…GOOD or BAD, but then the unimag­in­able occurred, i heard  back from both bou­tiques almost imme­di­ately and both said YES!!

this was aMaZ­ing and so exciting…but ah wait a sec­ond, am i ready to send the stock?  i was so sure that there was going to be a pro­longed wait­ing period fol­lowed by an even­tual rejec­tion that i just sent requests out into the uni­verse with­out fully being pre­pared to fill an order. this is some­thing i think we cre­atives all strug­gle with, putting our pas­sion out in the open for all to see and well accept makes us well freak out…the work a cre­ative pro­duces is in small or large a part of the artist them­selves and rejec­tion of the object is in fact a direct rejec­tion of the person…but, BUT accep­tance is well a lit­tle off putting…they really want my stuff?

so the moral of this tale is this…believe in your work so that oth­ers will, and when you take your baby steps out into the world be pre­pared to soar and not crash and burn, because chances are ‘you will suc­ceed 98 and 9/10 per­cent guar­an­teed, except when you don’t’ {thank you Dr. Seuss}