Now, I've been trying to keep this private and dignified, because complaining about it just makes me feel unprofessional. But after nearly three years of the same damn problem, I think I'll unload on every poor slob who wanders in this week. I'm feeling self-indulgent.

Some of you may have noticed that I am not trumpeting my two new designs to the skies, and some of you have even had me promise them to you, and then had me grovel--repeatedly--for your understanding. That's because a third party has had the new dies for over a year now, and is too *depressed* to put them in a freakin' box and mail them to me. No dies, no pennies. This person also has the dies for my first three designs (which five dies are long since paid for, you understand) and I have been writing letters, calling, and otherwise cajoling in any fashion I can over state lines, for him to return my property to me. Twice he has agreed to send them, and twice there has been no wonderful sound of the box being lobbed gently from the base of my driveway onto my porch. For all I know, he's sold them.

So, honestly, every piece of jewelry that goes out of here is a limited edition. And that sucks.