This is your payback, moneygrabber...

Okay, I've been busy at Ye Olde Dayjobbe and working on two relatively fast projects for Retrograde--hoping to be done by the end of the month! Can't wait to show you photos soon. In the meantime, expect some irregular posts and schedules...

Just got this photo today from one of my jobs--this ceramic stool from One Kings Lane arrived totally broken!

Now I've packed things before for One Kings Lane's Tastemaker Tag Sales last year and it was a pain in the a**. (They make each designer/firm handle the actual packing of items they sell and simply provide pre-printed FedEx labels.) It ended up being a lot of hard work on our end, and we even had to schlep the boxes to FedEx, otherwise we'd incur a pickup fee for ground service.

Let's just say one of my colleagues and I became pros with the tape gun and bubble wrap.

Not sure how they make their other vendors do things, but c'mon, folks! This is just bad. Look at the skimpy styrofoam sheets between the ceramic and the cardboard. Unacceptable! At least they gave my client a refund.

I guess that's the risk we take looking for a bargain. Or maybe that's what happens when a retailer cheaps out on common sense things like packaging...