Hello all, 

I'm new to hat academy and am considering taking some courses. Perhaps the fasteners, distressing hats, and the business course after briefly looking on the course page. 

I wanted to ask you all something. For years I have loved embellishing hats for various occasions such as attending Beltane gatherings, regional Burning Man events (even placing lighting systems on the hats), hootenannies, and just regular hats I would wear around town or out to eat. I use unique materials on some such as preserved moss, leaves, and hornets nest paper (see images). 

I don't go out really without wearing one of my embellished fedoras or pork pie hats. It's just a reflection of me while I'm on this Earth. 

I have had many compliments across many different types of ages and people for my around town and fancier festival hats. 

I've sold a handful of hats to people, and even created some custom hats as birthday gifts, and am considering having a business selling embellished hats with varying levels of decoration as well as creating hat accessories that others can put on their hats or use as lapel pins or as a Boutonnière. 

At this point to me a hat has been like a beautiful canvas that I can embellish using various different handmade/crafting skills. However the idea of making a hat doesn't really excite me or motivate me such as making porkpie, top hat, boater, and fedoras. 

Is it possible to have a business selling quality hats that you buy from others yet you yourself don't make the hat? If so I'm not sure what the term/category would "embellished hats", "upscaled hats", "custom hats". 

There is also the issue of if I sell one of a kind hats well that one hat is only one size and I don't know if that's a good idea to say have several sizes of the same hat on hand.  If I have repeatable items on hand to create a similar design and then I don't sell that style or I say well it will take 3 weeks for me to wait per order for a hat maker to make a hat for my order that seems like it would be too many logistics.  

I don't want to offend any of you who have spent years crafting your skills creating beautiful hats as I respect you tremendously for that. That is a whole level of art and skill. 

I thought it wouldn't hurt to ask and see what you all think about my above points as well as what courses I could take here. 

Brian