Struggling but still kicking

With the uncertain future of the retail part of BNW we are still working on projects for the up coming year for the Network and it's memebers. One of the projects we are looking at and have started of sorts is You Tube video not only talking about village collecting but also showing video on how to landscape villages and more. We are excited about this idea which came from some of our members.
Another thing we are thinking about doing along with this is a kind of broadcast about villaging. We have opened up an account on one of the more family friendly sites to do this in time if this looks like an option for us. Again something that we are exicted about and hope that this works out in our favor.
We are also looking at the idea of creating a booklet about landscaping and village collecting but this is a bigger project that might take some time. We will update this idea more as we look at doing it. There are a lot of things we dream about that takes a lot of time to do. That is one of them.
Overall even with the grim look for the retail for now we have high hopes still that 2009 will be a brighted year. Keep coming back to see what we are up to and what the scoop is on our progress. You never know what we are thinking up next!

BNW Retail maybe die!

Unless things change very quickly for us in the next few week or so this could be a short run for the hopeful village store that we had planned on bringing. This years sells barely covered the cost of frieght for our order of Lemax this year and the money coming in right now which is from my other job is going to pay off bills. It is hard to say where the money will come from to order new stuff for 2009. Most likely if we can not order again this next year that could be the end of the retail scector already. Without new product to sale there is not much chance of getting many sells again next year with product that will be a year old. The out look is not good right now.
What will this mean if the retail store does dry up? Most likely the future of BNW will be one that is pretty dim for a while. Interest in the Network is at an all time high but without the retail scetor it will not be the same. Prospects for any future projects will be on hold for a very long time. The progress we have made here in the last year was amazing in many ways but will it be enough to keep BNW alive and active as it is now? We are not sure.
If we fail at least we tried to give the village community a place to not only share ideas and interest but to shop and find products for the village collections they have also. Big chains like Michaels have put small shop owners and on line seller out of business in the past so BNW is not the only one that could be about to go under. We will just have to wait and see if something happens to turn things around.