Our collection is here!

On 9 May, we published a blog post about the production process. In it, we explained that starting a business involves ups and downs. Due to COVID-19, Turkey had to enter a strict lockdown, which meant that our workshops had to close their doors. Production came to a standstill and was consequently delayed by several weeks.  

Fortunately, the green light came fairly quickly and our workshops were able to resume production. All our items are handmade. So you can imagine that a collection cannot be completed within a few working days; it takes several weeks instead. We therefore had to wait patiently. Thanks to our good contact with our intermediary in the Netherlands, we received many updates & photos. This allowed us to follow what was happening and see how the collection slowly took shape.  

At the beginning of June, we finally received word! Our collection was ready and was shipped to the Netherlands. Shipping is usually very fast, but the lockdown had also caused a backlog at Turkish customs. Customs held our order there, and all we could do was wait patiently once again. Days passed, but our collection was not released. Our intermediary regularly contacted Turkish customs, but it nevertheless took several weeks for the collection to be released. Another minor setback, but ultimately, on Wednesday 23 June, we were finally able to receive 70% of our first collection! Part of our collection still needed some adjustments, and another part was unfortunately still being held at Turkish customs. We hope to receive the remaining 30% this week.  

That Wednesday, we had an appointment with our intermediary, who came to deliver the collection in person. It was quite exciting, because despite trusting the workshops, you never really know how the collection will arrive. We designed all the jewelry ourselves. We therefore had a perfect image of what we wanted and had high expectations. And finally, the moment had arrived: we could unpack and admire the collection! And wow, were we positively surprised! The collection is perfect and exactly as we had envisioned it. Every single item is beautiful.   

We will soon be sharing sneak peeks of the collection on our social media channels. And as soon as we have the complete collection, we will take product photos and put the collection online as quickly as possible. We will also write a blog post about this process, so that you can stay up to date on what it is like for us to start our own business!  

We hope to provide you with our first collection very soon, and we hope that you will be just as positively surprised as we are! We will be back soon with a new blog post.  

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