Order is on its way!

Rapunzel , originally uploaded by Gantaeno.

Finally!

The wigs are on their way :) I'm hoping that they will be in England, through customs and at my door by next Thursday, but I will keep you all up to date on their actual arrival time...

It's going to clash a little with my plans as I have a MASSIVELY IMPORTANT interview on the 20th and I cannot afford to mess it up as I leave for a two month break in America on the 31st and won't have time to interview for anything else, so the wigs will have to wait until that weekend I'm afraid. I hope you all understand: anything else and the wigs would be my priority, but I have to put this interview first. My aim will therefore be to spend that whole weekend packaging, ticking off wigs, contacting people if I need to and getting ready to queue outside the Post Office at 9am on Monday: boy am I going to make their day!
Because of my holiday...

I will be closing the shop on the 28th, until late July/early August. If you'd like any of the preorder wigs but haven't bought them yet please do now: I have added an option that will allow you to combine your newer orders with an unshipped order for cheaper postage.

Thanks so much for being so patient, and lets hope the wigs arrive soon!

Chloe xx

Cherry Tree's Big Shave for Japan

Cherry Tree's Big Shave for Japan, originally uploaded by Gantaeno

Hi everyone,

Seems like a while since I posted! The current order is well under way, so hopefully that will be with us be the end of April.

However, the disaster in Japan has prompted me to do something I haven't done before: offer a white Prima Ballerina wig for sale. I always said I wouldn't sell them in white but I have to mark this disaster and offer something special to raise as much money as possible, so it looks like Cherry Tree will be bald for a while! I was hoping to split the profit with Red Nose Day here in the UK but it won't let you split it...

The auction starting price is 99p so less of the final bid is paid as fees, more as donation. Please go take a look, as I'm hopeful that I won't be selling these wigs too often! It will run from tonight until next Sunday 9pm BST.

If you're realing this too late, please remember that the yellow Tinker wigs in my shop are ALWAYS charity wigs, with the profits going to Great Ormond Street Childrens Hospital :)

Thank you for reading!

Sale Now On :)

Hi All,

I got bored of waiting to run the discount, sorry! As such wigs are now discounted this whole week, from $28 down to $23 and $25 depending on style. I figured people would want their in stock orders now, instead of ordering with preorder wigs and having to wait.

Speaking of preorder wigs, I'll be ordering again from February 14th :) Lots of information here but you can also e-mail me at rapunzel-rapunzel AT hotmail.co.uk for information. I've got sketches for this preorder mostly, because a lot of the wigs will be new styles or colours.



More on the preorder later though, don't forget sale ends this Sunday!

Thanks,

Chloe.

Thinking Ahead...

Hi everyone, just wanted to add a quick update of the last and next orders, so you all know where I am!

The last order was I think, a far greater success than the one before it, mainly because I don't think I've made a mistake yet! (*knock on wood*) I'm sure you'll agree making the switch to a shop based order system is a lot safer and has been far more successful. In addition, with only a few hiccups where to shop decided I could have -1 quantities of a few wigs (!) it keeps me a lot more organised in terms of stock totals. Most popular this time were the new colour mix pink/white Prima, the pure white Tinker and the classic pure white Tracy.

Although I'd originally planned to host another order in January, my new job and other complications will push this back until February: any opinions? What I hope to do is start an order for Prima, Pixie and Tinker styles swith possibly a few random others thrown in, and simultaneously have a special discount event on the site. The discount will run for one day only, February 14th. If a mix of preorder wigs and instock wigs are ordered, they will be posted together once the preorders arrive, so if you need the wigs as soon as possible, please place seperate orders!

Another reason for the delay is so I have time to continue work on the prototype for the Goldilocks wig style shown above. I think it's really cute but it definitely needs work, particularly on the bulk and the fringe. I hope to have a final design verified in time for the order after this one.

Finally, I know a lot of people have been asking for the wig style with the little plaits sticking out of the bottom that Hallowe'en Cat Lea has. I haven't yet taken orders for a design that isn't directly mine or one of my companies core styles, but I will be discussing the possibility of adding this wig to my repetoire. It may be that they require me to change a few details, but so many people have asked that I have to see what I can do. If I get the go ahead I will be preordering these in February too.

Thanks a lot everyone!

Chloe x

Open for Business :)

That's right, I'm open again! All orders placed by Monday night will ship out on Tuesday, promise :)

There's a few new styles but sadly I am devoid of photos as my camera charger died, grrr! I do have new drawings of each style to give you an idea and am frantically going through my photo library to find pics of the colours I do have already: fingers crossed my new charger will be here soon. Until then here's a quick reminder of the styles available...


Happy 2011 everyone!

About Tax and Prices and More...

Hi Everyone!

Ok, I'm going to start with the good news :) Our order is nearly done and will hopefully ship out soon, which means that (fingers crossed. knock on wood) some of our gangs may have their new hair before Christmas! On top of that I will have a new style to reveal very soon, once finishing touches are added to it: i hope you will all like it...

Secondly, I have checked with the company who make the wigs for me and they are all safe and sound, here's hoping the current conflicts in Korea can be resolved safely and with no more loss of life.

Here's the not so good news: there's going to have to be a price increase...

The first order was fine as I asked $26 plus paypal fees for each wig, and I was in America at the time so paid no import duty at all... since moving back to the UK I have not added paypal fees and on top of that I have not asked any more to cover the cost of import duty, which is generally 17.5%.

From January the import tax in the UK will increase from 17.5% to 20% (read about it here). On top of this, the company who make my wigs for me say that if I continue to pay with paypal they will have to charge me $2 more per wig: sounds like a little but with the import tax as well if means I'm getting into the relm of this costing me more than it's worth to run! I'm looking at bank transfers at the moment but even then I have to deal with both Paypal and my Banks crappy rate of exchange from dollars to pounds, and then to won. I will do my best to find the cheapest option.

Either way, it's likely to mean a price rise to $28 per wig. I can absorb the cost of either the import tax or the exchange rates, but not both! Please, please let me know how you feel about this as I do not want to alienate people or leave anyone feeling that this is too high a price. I will do my best to reduce it but it's looking like the only option will be this price increase. You're welcome to post on Flickr (please don't make it sound like a sale post though!), send me an e-mail or post on here, any comments are much appreciated.

Thanks a lot, sorry to have to do this!

Chloe xxx

PS the new girl in the pic is a revamped Pirate Lea, who was made over by the wonderful Andreja. Her name is 17 Cherry Tree Lane: I think she's fab!

Preorder closed.

Thanks for the orders everyone, the preorder is closed and the final list has been sent off to Korea with a promised delivery date in December some time (in time to miss UK import taxes increasing!). I have added the unclaimed wigs to the shop here and I have also added a page of face up supplies which will grow in number over the next few weeks.


If you have a Flickr account, please check my celebratory give away here as you could win a wig of your choice! It's a naming contest to celebrate 100 Flickr group members, something I am very proud of.

That's all for now, I'll update when I have a better shipping date idea!

Chloe.