There are enough shirts available to ‘lay a base’ they are all ready and prepped to print.

Payment processor is ready, shipment is sorted.

I have a small list of more complicated small run shirts I would like to start working on, but I think the next hurdle is to get market-ready.

That means bags and table and printed matter.

Oh, and a market date.

I guess that’s next.

Fingers crossed.

It has been two months of futzing and fluffing, but I think the site is ready to go live for sales.

Tomorrow I will soft launch the site and then start trying to drive some traffic here.

But for today I am putting my fee (mostly) up. I’m going to try to finish ‘Between Two Fires’ by Christopher Buehlman and get it back to the rabid dogs at the library (I kid, I kid).

As the website development nears a close I am really looking forward to getting back to the ‘printing’ part of running a print company.

First up will be to flesh out the site with some  of my old designs from the Etsy shop. I will also need to wrangle my models (offspring) to get some product shots done.

My priority will be a couple of the Witch shirts (Baba Yaga, Herbology…)

After that I intend to rework some of my earlier designs in honour of the new shop. First up, probably the Green Man.

Lastly I need to prepare for doing an  in-person event. I expect that to be my main source of traffic since all internet ad sources appear to be enshittified. (nod to C. Doctorow)

Doing in person shows will also give me the opportunity to clear out some of my back stock. I still have a ton of random ringer shirts that have been unavailable for a couple years.

When and where, TBD.

(Image Info: A Ray Harryhausen cyclops pewter mini figure from my childhood collection that I have recently re-painted. Rawr.)

Luckily I have had help from my friends at Munter Westerman. They have been very helpful in flagging all the things I hadn’t thought of.

Slowly but surely things are coming together.  Hopefully I can move on from website building and get back to t-shirt printing.

I have been making and selling shirts on Et$y since 2019.

That platform has been in decline for a while, but once I stopped shipping to the states, it no longer had much to offer.

I miss my US customers, but the tariffs are such a moving target that I can’t imagine building a business around them.

When in doubt – REBRAND!

I am taking this opportunity to refocus my business on the kind of work I want to be doing.

Fingers crossed.