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.
Aren’t you supposed to make baby clothes? Yes, I am definitely making baby clothes. This brand is still about making Bold Prints for Fearless Babies & Children, so why am I currently selling masks?! “It really wasn’t on brand for me to wear boring, thoughtless pieces of fabric on my face.” It started the way …
Last month I travelled to meet a company that I’ve been thinking about working with to manufacture our clothing. It was a very quick decision to fly out. I got the sample, liked it and figured that there’s only so many emails or WhatsApp messages we could exchange. I’m still on maternity leave and had …
Working on Mummy’s Muse is great. It means I always have something to think about. I mean, it’s not like I have a shortage of things to think about having two small children, however, this is something more interesting than the routine of every day life. It’s something I’m trying to build and really care …
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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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