Order Status Updates

I can’t tell you how often I get email requests asking for status updates on orders, and they’re always difficult to answer (which is why I ask folks to resist doing so on the FAQ page).

At the same time, I completely understand (and am grateful for) the passion the Dyed4you Community has about their orders!!!  I know how hard it can be to try to patiently await a word.  So I thought I’d take a moment to explain WHY it’s not so simple to give updates 🙂

If all I were doing was dyeing silk, the order status updates would be simple. After all it would be as easy as you order, I dye, and I ship.  Any status request would fall somewhere in that simple process and be quick to answer.

However, doing prophetic dyeing makes it not remotely simple!  I think the best way to help you understand why is to give examples of some things that have happened order-wise and I think you’ll begin to see for yourself 🙂

• Sometimes I create a silk I believe is for person A only to have Father tell me at the end of the process it is for person B – so if I had told person A it was nearly done, I’d have been wrong because now I’m back at the beginning
• Sometimes He has me dye a silk that has a new word being birthed and the silk will be dyed for weeks before the word is finished being downloaded – if I told the person once the silk was dyed that it was “almost ready” I would have been very wrong
• Sometimes He’ll have me recreate a style silk I’ve done before, which seems simple enough since I know what it’s to look like and the word already exists, but when I go to package it He’ll tell me He wants an additional word to go with it and He births an addition to the word that only goes to that specific recipient, which takes time – if I’d told them it was about to go out, again I’d have been wrong

Those are just a few examples, but I think you get the idea!  Since I am not in control of the process, I can’t really give an accurate timetable.  I’m simply stewarding the process.

Really the only order status update I can accurately give is to say it is in progress and remind the purchaser that creation time is up to 4 weeks (or longer on quills, throws, special orders, and a couple other specialty items).  In truth, there’s been times He’s even broken the “deadline” (which I confess REALLY stretches me, but thus far His timing has always been perfect even in that!).

Hopefully that gives some clarity to the why I request that you resist asking.  It’s not that I don’t want to accommodate, it’s that I can’t tell you what I don’t know 🙂

All that said, if you have any questions – as always, feel free to ask!