{what a difference a year makes}

So yesterday the thought crossed my mind… WHAT AN AMAZING YEAR THIS HAS BEEN FOR TRACY JOY INC!!!!

Last year, 2007, at this same time… I had a 10+ week waiting list, and was cutting, pinning, sewing, pressing ALL my own products. Each bag, I tediously hand crafted myself. Each cut of my sissors, each pin in a pattern, and every stitch was all by my own hand (with the gracious help of my mother who was also sewing bags for me).

Now, 2008, there is no massive waiting list anymore, as my inventory is “stocked”… my bags are now produced at a contract sewing company, (proudly made in the USA). All the bags are cut in mass quantities by a giant cutting machine (not my trusty pair of Gingher sissors), and then put on a sewing assembly line (still sewn by hands, just not mine!).

So I just wanted to say….

for sticking by me; through the LONG waiting lists, the “out of stock” warnings, and for helping to make Tracy Joy Inc what it is today. I couldnt be happier… and not just because of this amazing company that I have created from ground up… but for the outstanding people I have worked with, met and befriended in the past year of this great adventure. I am truly blessed!

HAPPY HOLIDAYS, AND HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!
~Tracy Joy