We have lift off. I’ve been through a particularly frustrating season with respect to design. I can’t believe it but looking back at it, it’s lasted several months!
I’d been working with a particular designer but our schedules wouldn’t align. He is very talented, so I hung on for as long as I could. However in hindsight, I wasted a lot of time hoping someone would come through for me. It’s been a crucial lesson for me – how long do you wait on someone else when starting a business?
It’s really difficult when your progress is tied to someone else’s proactivity, productivity – or lack thereof. The great thing is that this highly frustrating experience has pushed me to be more creative and experiment with different options when it comes to design.
Our second baby is due in just over a month’s time, my biggest upcoming challenge will be to keep up some sort of momentum and consistency with the development of the range, while navigating my new world of both a toddler and a newborn. We’ll see how that goes.
If you’ve been following this journey for some time now, you’ve probably realised colour – it’s power and it’s potential – is something I’m very passionate about. I love colour; there is definitely something about it that energises me. However the extent of my experience with colour is probably dressing myself, doing my make up …
One product, many colourways vs. one colourway, many products. This month has been about establishing which 4 or 5 products I’m going to build my first range around. Initially I had the idea of only going with one item and producing it in many different colourways and designs. Since then for a number or reasons, …
I set a goal and I met it. When I was pregnant with Muse No.2 I told myself by the end of the first quarter of 2019 (end of March), I would like to have my technical packs completed and sent to my factory. For those of you who don’t know a technical (tech) pack …
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Momentum
We have lift off. I’ve been through a particularly frustrating season with respect to design. I can’t believe it but looking back at it, it’s lasted several months!
I’d been working with a particular designer but our schedules wouldn’t align. He is very talented, so I hung on for as long as I could. However in hindsight, I wasted a lot of time hoping someone would come through for me. It’s been a crucial lesson for me – how long do you wait on someone else when starting a business?
It’s really difficult when your progress is tied to someone else’s proactivity, productivity – or lack thereof. The great thing is that this highly frustrating experience has pushed me to be more creative and experiment with different options when it comes to design.
Our second baby is due in just over a month’s time, my biggest upcoming challenge will be to keep up some sort of momentum and consistency with the development of the range, while navigating my new world of both a toddler and a newborn. We’ll see how that goes.
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