So lately I've been looking at baby clothes online for our new baby's bring home outfit and for Chase's summer wardrobe. As I'm looking for these "alternative" style hip baby clothes I realize how expensive and hard it is! You've got to do some interesting online searches and even then you come to a website and it's so expensive! It reminds me of one of my few passions.. I've always wanted to start my own business. I know a lot of people talk about starting their own business, but no I really have thought in depth and even tried to plan it.
I've always like crafts. I use to cut up my stuffed animals just so I can sew them back together. I have a bunch of Frankenstein looking stuffed animals haha. My toys must think I'm like Eddie from Toy Story. That's his name right? The scary kid that mistreats his toys? Anyways, I always tried making my own things. It's always easier to be inspired when it's something you want too. I made my own homecoming dress (it wasn't anything fancy.) My mom sews, I guess that's where I got it from. She made our dresses and barrettes that we wore to our uncles wedding.
Recently, I've been getting into wearing bows! The problem is I feel like bows are WAY too overpriced. The cute ones are at least. So I got this idea, how about I make my own bows?!? If they're cute enough maybe I can even sell it! I thought I'd start on that when I'm on maternity leave since that's the only time I feel like I'll have time for anything. Well, now that I've been looking for little boy t-shirts I thought to myself how nice would it be if I could just design my own.
For a little bit, I was making my own shirts and sweaters that are "smoker friendly." Whenever I wear them, people compliment me on it. It's something unique and different. I feel like I have all of this creativity inside me and no way to express it. Now a days, with the internet being so helpful I feel like I can just dip my toes in the water and try to sell things online instead of making a full commitment of actually starting a business. It's less time consuming so I can just do it on the side. Ultimately, I do want to be a business owner. Right now is not the type economically and financially, so I'll just have to find another way for now.
I just found the site that I was making the clothing from and you can also have your own "site" to sell them. But personally it's way too expensive!
I gotta learn about this screen print thing because apparently that's how you get your graphics and design printed on a shirt. I just feel like I want to do SOMETHING!
I know most of what you need to know thanks to my job and freelance gigs over the past 8 years. Let me know if youre serious...
ReplyDeleteYes I'm really serious about it. I've been wanting to design T-shirts for ever but I don't know what is this screen printing. I tried to google it, but I'm not artistic enough to actually draw it out and even if I did, I feel like it would need to be touched up on a comp.
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