I have been trying really hard to get some new tee designs done. They are coming! I promise. I just don’t know when. It just feels like I keep getting pulled in a million different directions all the time and I can’t focus on just one thing. Such is my life. This is not an excuse, just an explanation as to why I don’t post and why I have no new designs as of yet despite my constant promising. Yeah, I’m kind of lame.
I think we may be taking a break from the craft show circuit for the time being. It’s just so much work. And they can be such a gamble. When they are good shows, they are so much fun and totally worth all the time and money I have to put towards this venture. But when they are bad (and we had some BAD ones lately) they make you question what you are doing and whether it is all worth it.
It’s not something I mention much, but I’m doing things pretty much all on my own at this point. We are still such a small business. I’m still just trying to build a following and get my work shown. But since we aren’t there yet, most of the work rests on my shoulders due to financial limitations. All of the money we are making at this point goes right back into Signifying Not. But that isn’t always enough, so I am often having to put a good amount of my own money into things. We can’t yet afford to outsource things to other people to make, so I am the one spending hours printing shirts and making things in our little one-bedroom apartment. This on top of my regular 9 to 5 doesn’t leave much time for other things in my life sometimes. It can all be really exhausting and really overwhelming at times. I do this because it is something I am passionate about and because I want to get to a point where I do things because I love doing them, not because I have to. But right now it is all a gamble. It could turn out to be a total failure. And sometimes that very real possibility that all these weekends spent and late nights could be for nothing makes me want to just take a break and not write a blog post or not work on marketing. So I am not always the best I could be at all of this. But I am trying to get better. Business has been picking up steadily and I am hoping that soon we will be able to hire someone else to do our screen printing so that I can focus more on design and concepts. This is the dream!
Until then I hope you will accept me for all my broken promises and poor follow-through.
