"With you and Holly becoming RVers what's going to happen to Mary and shipping, etc. I'm not worrying, just wondering. I wish you both the best as you travel this wonderful country visiting with the people who make machine embroidery and quilting and all the other handcrafts so much fun! I know we'll be seeing designs with the flavor of the locales you visit and I'm truly excited!"
I answered the email but thought our readers may like to know the same thing...
About a year and a half ago our employees (we had two at the time beside Holly and me) set up workspaces in their own homes. Both were expecting for the first time (must have been the water at our house) and we wanted them to be able to work from home while raising their children and not to have to commute to anywhere.
Since then we have added a several more people part-time that also work from their own homes. They warehouse our videos and handle the shipping for us, and do our test-sewing, help people with changing email address, file corporate papers, and we even have one that's working part-time on a secret project that will be a new concept in the embroidery industry when we are ready to release it several months from now.
Holly and I work wherever we are located, either in our house, in our motorhome or in a hotel room or even while visiting friends. We've been traveling in the motorhome for almost two years now for as much as 5 months at one time and always able to work. So going fulltime shouldn't affect anything for us except that we will have more opportunities to visit people around the country. We are hoping to work with various educators as we travel and create videos with them like we just did with Dawn. It should open up some new doors for people in the embroidery and make it possible for you to see educators that you'd otherwise never be able to see in person.
Thanks for asking about this and for the well-wishes! We do spend time smelling the flowers along the way. While we spend many long hours working on ATW, we also have the ability to stop at any time and take a mental health break. We usually take a couple nice walks together every day with the girls and enjoy every day. We also get to know people in the campgrounds and get to visit with our club members wherever we are. We've enjoyed this so much that we just want to do more of it now while we are still young enough.