Archive for the 'Behind The Scenes' Category

Distance Selling Ends

We have decided to shut down our distance selling operations. As of today, you will only be able to buy our products at various dance competition exhibitions such as the UK Open and the Blackpool Dance Festival.

The only reliable way of contacting us will be by e-mail.

Thank you to all our customers.

Contact Form Working Again

Apologies again.

Contact Form Problem

Our e-mail contact form has not been working for an unknown time. Our web host has shut it down because they have received reports that spam is being sent from our site. However, they have neglected to let us know and there are no error messages.

Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience caused. If you have used our contact form and not received a reply, please call us or try again using out e-mail address directly, which is now posted as an image on the Contact Us page.

Pre-Blackpool 2006

For us the event started much earlier, with preperations.

We all jetted to Hong Kong for 5 weeks around April time to support the final push of our efforts to produce Espen Salbergs 2006 dance wear collection, a huge learning curve. It was introduced to the public at Blackpool to great satisfaction, which shows that “Made in China” can be of excellent quality. Fiona and Katie played an essential part of keeping everything on track and everybody sane.

A new dance wear collection takes a lot of work aside from the dance wear itself. Photoshoots, advertisements, banners and not least catalogues need creating. So Sam found himself diverted from his project of computerizing/barcoding the retail and admin operation of the Hong Kong shop, tying in with its redecoration.

Along with training a new full-time staff member, it turned out to be the busiest Far’s has ever been.

Small Office, Home Office

The queen bed has been moved to the lounge, awaiting sale. We went to Ikea yesterday to buy furniture for the old bedroom/new office. A carpet cleaner from HSS was organised this morning, and after lunch we indulged in IKEA assembly.

The first part of our credit card processing equipment has arrived today, too. The electronic machine is yet to be delivered.

Unfortunately, we missed the BT man yesterday, otherwise we would have a landline by now, too. Everything is coming together! Who says work is boring?