One of the reasons I started this blog was to document my journey to achieving some of my big dreams. Although I don't always voice them out loud, I have big, crazy dreams for the future. Dreams like having a big family, adopting, taking my big family on a missions trip to another country, homeschooling, owning my own shop, traveling the country, learning Spanish, and taking my parents back to Disney World like I promised them when I was 13.
Well, most of those dreams require a decent chunk of money and time so I am learning to have patience while I dream. :) But I am able to work on a couple of them right now. For instance, Doad bought me the Pimsleur Spanish CD's* for my birthday one year and we are verrrrry slowly working our way through them. I think we average a lesson a month haha. But we're doing it together and hopefully one day we can travel back to our honeymoon spot (beautiful Dominican Republic)and put our Spanish to good use! [There I go dreaming again... ;)]
Another dream that I am taking a step to achieving is opening up a shop online! As you know, I have been sewing quite a bit lately. Several people have encouraged me to sell some of my products and I've decided to take their advice. :) I'm really excited and a little bit nervous. There is a lot of planning that goes into opening up an online store. And a lot of questions that need to be answered. Which storefront should I use? How do I price my products? What type of branding material do I need to get right away and what can wait?
I've been working my little tushy off to research and prepare and sew, sew, sew! I am planning to launch the weekend after Thanksgiving, but wanted to post about it now so that you all can share in the journey.... and maybe also give me some advice? :) The planner in me is freaking out a little bit at all the unknown's of starting something so new to me. However, the dreamer in me is so sooooo excited to be doing this. I know I just need to start small and work really hard and learn as I go. But I really would appreciate any support, advice, and words of wisdom from those of you who have been there and done that. Some of my big questions are:
What storefront do you recommend and why?
What are your best organizational tips for running a handmade business?
Do you have any favorite resource sites you'd like to share?
Looking forward to posting more about this soon! And to hearing all your wonderful advice *nudge nudge* ;) Have a lovely weekend, everybody!
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