Goodbye At Home America

If you've spent anytime at all on my Facebook account over the years you have heard me promoting a company called At Home America.  On two different occassions I was a HomeStyle Specialist and sold their a.maz.ing homewares.  You've been asked to "like" my Kelly's At Home America page on Facebook and have heard over and over and over and over about how much I love At Home America.

I even got to go to Chicago on two different occassions to rub elbows with the owners and meet other homestyle specialists who really believed that AHA was an extension of their family.

Me pictured with co-owner Becky Wright ... I was growing out my unfortunate mullet and looking especially chubby in this picture... during their 27th AtHome America birthday celebration

 

VP Tim Curry, Julayne and I "dancing" At Home America style! At Forum January 2011.

Well, I heard on Friday morning that At Home America is no more.  I don't know many details and can make some good guesses as to why it has gone out of business... but still I find myself in shock and awe. 
Last February I hosted a show at Pizza Ranch here in town.  I had an awesome turnout and the sales of that show was perhaps that best that I had ever had!  I really considered coming back to AHA as a rep, but Hotsauce was really unsure.  We decided to put off my going back until this fall.  It didn't take us that long to make up our minds that I would not be going back.  You see it's now September and I still haven't received all of my products from that show.  =( You cannot build a buisness (or sustain a business) if your customers have to wait this long to get their items.  I don't know why AHA suddenly couldn't fill orders... quality control issues, vendor issues, financial issues, bad management issues... there are a hundred possibilities! 



This picture of my favorite Turkey Bottoms was featured in a few of the At Home America catalogs!

I just know that I'm incredibly sad to have to say goodbye to this company.  I love, love, love their products.  I have met some truly amazing people through the company and would ask that you might pray for Michelle, Shelly, Theresa, Patty, Melanie, Janet, Kelley, Jean, and even Becky and Lisa as they all try to tie up loose ends and move on from this difficult time.

**Julayne... I will still make you count how many items in a room are from AtHome America, it's just going to get boring now that the number will never change. ;)