Not quite sure when I decided that the MoG is going to be my focus. It just became the thing that made the most sense given my circumstances. I was broke, couldn't afford to buy tshirts in bulk and keep them in stock...
...which meant whenever I made a sale, I was running to and from retailers to pick up shirts for clients...
...which meant a lot of the profit I got out of the project was lost in the additional time and gas it takes to run from one Target to the next looking for that last 3XS, 2M and 1 XXL you don't have yet...
...which means it's typically at the last minute and always at the expense of working on my blog or my website or my marketing plan or my business in general...
...which means I had allowed my business to become my job. And I was working that job for what amounted to minimum wage.
I know right? I was depressed about that for a while once I figured it out. But identifying my problem of having too many unsold designs in stock with no way to buy blanks to move them, no money to spend on marketing them and no time to work on much between having a senior--OMG I don't recall Christopher's year being so expensive, but he got no senior pictures and paid for his own Senior Package with the money he earned from his job. We always want to give our kids everything...and he certainly didn't get everything...but what an impressive young man he's become anyway.
Proud mommy moment. I have lots of those. This is a personal blog. I digress a lot. Sorry. And does anybody read these things anyway?
Anyway, where was I? Oh yes...a rather large majority of of my time and energy is being depleted because I also have a senior and a soccer player and miserable family court problems, money issues, health issues, car problems and a house to keep clean. There's so much more. YOU know how much adulting it takes to keep it together. I know you know.
And then summer comes. And you don't have to get up at 5:45 every morning anymore. And for 3 whole weeks you don't have to accommodate the needs and demands of those little people you gave life to....
...and you get to work.
It's time to do some good.