August- The next nappy hunt -and a request

Firstly-Possum Pouches will be closed during August for everything except knit orders.I have an enormous amount of paperwork to do,(its BAS time for DH again gggrr) plus visitors coming and going, and I am away for a full 2 weeks later in the month with absolutely no internet access or computers at all during the full 2 weeks.
The hunt is coming up and I am hoping to somehow find time to sew some stock before I go away as I am not taking sewing with me.
I will have some promos throughout the hunt month including a big one on Daddy Flats-which are a great alternative to prefolds for small bubs; these will be available as a really fabulous deal during the hunt.
I am not discounting my other products during the hunt; my prices are already at rock bottom and this is how they will remain; there will be brief specials for example where free postage is offered on certain items, a free gift included, a second item half price etc; but these will just happen randomly throughout the hunt.
I am an extreme site this hunt for the first time; last hunt someone made a suggestion that my site should have been an extreme;I disagree and I think whoever said that may perhaps regret their words after looking for my icon this time. On the other hand some of you will breeze through it, just as many of you did last hunt.By now some of you will realise that my site is not a template like most websites; and it is not easy to actually hide anything on it as people can chance on the icon without doing any real work to locate it.
Once you reach my age you will understand how important it is to keep those grey cells exercised just like any other part of the body, perhaps more so. Use it or lose it !!!
Now-I have avoided saying this for some time but feel the time has come.This is a gentle request to read, re-read and read again what you write on forums and blogs when mentioning nappy names ( ANY nappy, I am not talking only about mine); read it and put yourself in the place of the wahm who made the nappy and think very carefully about how that person may react.Perhaps rephrase it. Even if you think it wouldn't upset you if said about you, not everyone reacts the same way. I have seen several posts in the last week where just the choice of words can be less than fair publicity for the wahm/s involved (no names mentioned but this applies to several different products by several different wahms)and can be so upsetting to anyone who has worked very hard to provide a good product and give great service.Slipping in a negative remark about a product to help promote someone else's is plain bad etiquette.
If something is not working quite how you believe it should, you should contact the wahm and ask her why it might be happening, before you post saying in blunt terms the product has something wrong with it.99% of problems can be rectified easily with the correct advice. Also,waving a nappy over baby's bottom when the parcel arrives and then saying publicly it doesn't work is not really a fair reason for selling it on within hours or even days of purchase.If it is new contact the maker to see if a refund or exchange is available, if it is second hand you need to know how it was cared for and if it has been laundered properly, but still perhaps contact the maker for some advice.
Comments that "such and such a nappy is the only one that works" are totally unfair.Nobody can tell me the writer has properly tried every single nappy that is out there.A better way to say it would be "we find x,y and z work well for us at the moment".
If I see a nappy being onsold because "it doesn't work" and the time frame has been too short for a fair trial my initial feeling is the person bought it for alternative reasons !!!!!!
That's enough on that subject.Most people know by now how strongly I feel about people who try to ride in on the success of others, not to mention those who encourage others to cheat.
I hope everyone enjoys the hunt, they are always great fun. I suggest you don't stress over any site that is too difficult but make a note to come back when more clues are available.I don't usually have a lot of time to do any hunting but am hoping to try every site this time- because my brain needs that exercise!
In the meantime, retirement is always in the wings around here now, so if anyone wants to offer the right price for a great nappy business, well....???
It is a lot of work for one person.
Photo is Jacob's new cubby house and slide which grandpa helped his dad put up the other week;swing set is out of the picture to the right with his trampoline.You can just see his little face peeking over the front rail and that is grandpa(my DH) lower right of pic.

ORDERS CLOSED ALL NAPPIES(temporarily)

I have just returned home and because I had no internet I now have emails that are in the 4 figures mark ( and that doesn't count spam); first I need to empty the caravan but if you have emailed me about an order I will answer you tomorrow.
However I am forced to close all fresh nappy orders from this point onwards as I am going to be pushed to complete the ones that came in while I was away, as August is another extremely busy month for me with another 2 weeks away ( again with no internet) plus a mountain of tax work to get done, visitors coming and going on planes etc etc.
I will post here and on the home page of the site to give a better idea of when orders will resume but I won't get to do that for at least another 24 hours.

Incommunicado

I will be totally without internet access between 10th and 19th July-any enquiries sent during that time will be answered after that period.

July and August at KK Nappies

Well the move and sorting still goes on, but this coming week I have my (almost) 7 year old grandson staying so I had to move a lot of stuff out of the upstairs sewing room to fit in a bed for him.
That means no sewing this week.
After that we are starting to look at some short holidays. As we go away in our caravan to places that tend to be tucked away from civilisation, internet access is limited, in fact at one park to which we will be going, there is absolutely nothing there other than the caravan park,( and a river for DH's tinny !!!!) and it is a half hour drive to any sort of shops; no internet access at all.
Last year I took sewing machines and a mountain of sewing but I am not doing that this year. I am having a holiday with a good book or ten and a bit of knitting, not a machine in sight.
It has always been, and remains my intention to be able to provide you with KKs whenever you need them, not just when it suits me to sew them;however during July and August obviously I will not have a lot of sewing time at all.Remember I do every part of the nappy business myself;nobody cuts or snaps or does those sort of helpful jobs for me, and July also means BAS and tax time for DH's business, a huge amount of work on top of everything else.
This need not stop you from asking; I may have a nappy to suit or one almost completed.KKs remain the greatest night nappy option .
However I will not be able to answer emails easily whilst I am away;July I may be able to get to a library occasionally, and it is only going to be for one week anyway, but in August I will be totally internet free for around 2 weeks so if you do not get a reply, that is the reason. I am not taking a laptop as there is no point if I can't get online.
Once I return it will be nappy hunt time again and I will have stock available then.
(And the icon will be a VERY easy one to find this time as well)
Currently KKs are still priced at $30 but will most likely increase in price after the hunt.

KK Orders

KK Orders will start getting posted on Monday, so I will send out emails for payments over the weekend. I am still working flat out to finish them in that time, because so many interruptions keep occurring.
At this stage I am unsure when I will return to accepting nappy orders in any large numbers, but when I do I am taking to steps to ensure I do not get overloaded.
I am still trying to sort out this mess of boxes, and soon it is school holidays when I will have my eldest grandson visiting; after that we have holidays coming up and I plan to make it a proper holiday this time, not like last year when I sewed in the caravan the whole time I was away.
I am staying offline as much as I can at the moment to try to devote as much time as possible to sewing.

Still surrounded by mess

I still have a couple of weeks ahead of me with the moving saga;but have stopped and put it all on hold (despite the house still being covered by boxes and bags) to try to finish the current long list of KK orders.
I am still not taking any nappy orders but will be able to do that once everything else is caught up;however I will be limiting the time period each month when orders will be accepted. If I don't do this I am finding I have no time to do anything else and I do have other interests and commitments which I would like to pursue.
I am looking at a wholesale option for KKs but that is a little way off and may not be the path I decide to take.
Frances and I are still accepting knitting orders but need to advise that currently we are full for June and into the early part of July.
I will not be online now until next week, I am taking a weekend free of the computer so I can sew and knit without getting distracted, as I do everytime I look at the screen.
Those of you who have ordered KKs should receive an email early next week with payment info and I apologise for the delay. I am wishing I had never started moving anything. For the record I am not actually moving house, just the workshop. I had spread over the spare bedroom, the lounge, the office, the front verandah, a store room and a large guest room and DH was getting fractious. I have no idea how he expected me to condense it down to 1 room as I am still using 4 of those with quite a bit of mess to still be sorted.
We are hoping to take the caravan away in the coming months for a couple of short breaks. The caravan parks we visit tend to be on calm water so DH can take his car top tinny out easily and pretend to fish. This means I am left in a boring caravan park miles from civilisation so usually end up filling the truck with sewing machines and fabric to give me something to pass the time. I refuse to do that this time and am just taking books and knitting.
I will update this page when I can, and also need to update the website but until someone offers to be my assistant that is one job that gets put at the bottom of the list.

The move goes on!

I am still lost in a mountain of boxes and fabric; this is a mammoth effort and I am working my butt off to get it finished but a few spanners have been thrown in the works to drag it on a little longer.
I have been absolutely inundated with KK orders, which I am totally unable to sew until the machines are in place again, so I have decided to put a temporary hold on all sewing orders from now until further notice(excludes those already received this morning).
If you have emailed and I have not replied, I will have received it and will answer asap; it loses me many hours in the day answering all the emails that I get and my priority in daylight hours is to move and sort everything; so please don't think I am ignoring you, but you will be on my list for nappies as soon as I can get to them.
I sincerely apologise for the delay but hopefully the new setup will be more efficient-if I ever get it completed.
Knitting proceeds at night as usual.
A large piece of the tiger poly velour fabric in pictured nappy is free to anyone who can pick it up from Brisbane Western suburbs , otherwise it will go to Lifeline along with a mountain of dress fabric lengths and probably flannelette.