Website magic
It has been an amazing time since our website launched. For those living in computer blessed countries where nearly every home has one, where broadband is the norm and where the connection is fast and reliable, it may be hard to convey the impact of the birth of our website.Some of the ladies were seeing a computer for the first time. We gathered in Kopila's house and kept our fingers crossed that we could get a connection to coincide with our celebratory sticky Indian sweets and chiya.To say that the ladies were thrilled would be an understatement. For those totally unfamiliar with the concept, Kopila explained that a website was like a book that people (that is, you!) could read on the computer to learn about us, what we do and what we make.By seeing photos of themselves beading or creating, they began to see themselves as people with skills and abilities, not just as people with sad stories. They have been so encouraged by people's response to the website and by the fact that people love what they make. I think they are surprised at the sense of connectedness that is evolving.
We will update our blog often and hope that we can give you some sense of life here. Some of the ladies would like to share their stories and we'd love to share our dreams and plans with you. We just want you to know what a big difference the website has made. None of us expected it to have such an impact on our confidence as individuals and as an organisation.For now we will bask in our website glory and keep you up to date via this blog. We plan to have our online store up and running in early 2010 (late 2066!).Lucky Australians will have the chance to get products if they email us on acolourfullife@live.com to make orders and discuss availability and delivery. We are making arrangements with friends in US, Holland, Canada and the UK for distribution help there so don't despair if you aren't an Aussie!From all of us here, thank you and keep visiting or better still, subscribe (enter your email address in the box in the left column)! Let us know what you'd like us to share and we'll do our best to respond.Wendy