What exactly is your business, anyways?? Is it starting well? :D
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Oh, Rouka *shakes head*
As *cough cough* posted earlier in my LJ *cough cough grin*
Hubby and I are starting a screen printing business, professionally screening custom t-shirts, aiming at the market who just wants that one special shirt, but doesn't want to pay the $100 in set up fees just to get their shirt made. So, custom shirts, $20 bucks for one offs, plus, we'll do larger orders too of course, and we'll have some stock designs of our own to sell as well.
Things are progressing. We're doing very well with the spending part of setting up the business *G* But I have secured a good, competatively priced supplier of t-shirts, and a source for supplies with free next day delivery in the city, which is excellent, and a few other contacts. I have the equipment. The basment-cum-shop is progressing. I have built tables, rearranged tools, assembled shelfs, built racks, insulated and added a floor to a cold cellar-cum-screen drying room, and am in the process of building another rack for my screens in there, and then once we get the sawdust and tools put away, I'll actually be able to start running off some demo shirts. I'm working on the web site design, have my web hosting guy who's a friend looking into some shopping cart software for me, the hubby has finished his research and is about to begin the arduous task of writing our business plan...
So, yes, overall I'd say it's going well. We've spent a bit getting set up, but I think we've got a good target market, and if we can reach them, we should make our projections next year and recover our initial investment. It's all very exciting. We have very high hopes, culminating in a desire to some day be able to run the shop full time and quit our other jobs and be our own bosses (and maybe even boss other people around!!!)
The business is called Geek2Chic Custom Tees but there's nothing up yet, just a holder page. In the meantime, we're likely going to start selling a few through e-bay with luck, and see how we do from there.
All very exciting. :o)
I think it's a limestone carving. A detail I cut from a picture of the original. It's a depiction of pharao Akhenaten with his wife Nefertiti and three daughters. The details shows one of the daughters on Nefertiti's knee, pointing at her father. You can see the body of her little sister at Nefertiti's shoulder, hehe. It's a really sweet picture, just crawling with family-ness.
I've always liked Egytian art, with it's rigid rules and size diffentiating importance, and hieroglyphs, of course. I had a chance to go see Tutankhamen at the museum here in Toronto, oh, about 25 years ago, but my parents were too tired that day *grrr arg* I've never quite gotten over that. >:o(
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Oh, Rouka *shakes head*
As *cough cough* posted earlier in my LJ *cough cough grin*
Hubby and I are starting a screen printing business, professionally screening custom t-shirts, aiming at the market who just wants that one special shirt, but doesn't want to pay the $100 in set up fees just to get their shirt made. So, custom shirts, $20 bucks for one offs, plus, we'll do larger orders too of course, and we'll have some stock designs of our own to sell as well.
Things are progressing. We're doing very well with the spending part of setting up the business *G* But I have secured a good, competatively priced supplier of t-shirts, and a source for supplies with free next day delivery in the city, which is excellent, and a few other contacts. I have the equipment. The basment-cum-shop is progressing. I have built tables, rearranged tools, assembled shelfs, built racks, insulated and added a floor to a cold cellar-cum-screen drying room, and am in the process of building another rack for my screens in there, and then once we get the sawdust and tools put away, I'll actually be able to start running off some demo shirts.
I'm working on the web site design, have my web hosting guy who's a friend looking into some shopping cart software for me, the hubby has finished his research and is about to begin the arduous task of writing our business plan...
So, yes, overall I'd say it's going well. We've spent a bit getting set up, but I think we've got a good target market, and if we can reach them, we should make our projections next year and recover our initial investment. It's all very exciting. We have very high hopes, culminating in a desire to some day be able to run the shop full time and quit our other jobs and be our own bosses (and maybe even boss other people around!!!)
The business is called Geek2Chic Custom Tees but there's nothing up yet, just a holder page. In the meantime, we're likely going to start selling a few through e-bay with luck, and see how we do from there.
All very exciting. :o)
I think it's a limestone carving. A detail I cut from a picture of the original. It's a depiction of pharao Akhenaten with his wife Nefertiti and three daughters. The details shows one of the daughters on Nefertiti's knee, pointing at her father. You can see the body of her little sister at Nefertiti's shoulder, hehe. It's a really sweet picture, just crawling with family-ness.
The dimply things are hieroglyphs.
Limestone? Really? Huh. It's very... sandstone-looking limestone...
I've always liked Egytian art, with it's rigid rules and size diffentiating importance, and hieroglyphs, of course. I had a chance to go see Tutankhamen at the museum here in Toronto, oh, about 25 years ago, but my parents were too tired that day *grrr arg* I've never quite gotten over that. >:o(