Sometimes you've just got to go slower... I had great plans to get my website fully stocked, locked and loaded by the end of May but life gets in the way. With Season of Family Birthdays, illnesses and winter chills it's suddenly mid June. But slowly and steadily the Grunge Edit is being stocked, and some cute knits will be heading over next.I had to cancel my stall at Fashion Thrift Society for June as it's clashes with Miss 8's dance show so my next event will be the amazing Round She Goes on July 19th.In the meantime I'll be snuggling down with a blanket, a cup of tea and my laptop and getting all those NEW THINGS loaded...
The latest drop to the web shop is The Grunge Edit. I have such a fondness for this era, as a 90's Art Student, I spent weekends in incense filled hippy shops perusing the tiedye, Indian embroidery and grungey florals, saving up for silver earrings and making friendship bracelets or necklaces from found objects. (I'm the one in plaits in the image below wearing a necklace I made from a bit of metal I found on the street).Blackpool Art College 1993Inspired by our favourite bands, we'd pull our looks together from our parents 70's stash of flares, waistcoats, leather jackets and squeeze into kids tees with graphic prints. We found floral frocks from the jumble sale or charity shop added...
Well I'm slowly but surely adding products to the new Kitten Vintage Square Mini-Site.The Denim Edit will be live today and I've learnt so much along the way. I've still got some annoying things I don't seem to be able to change - quirks of using the free version of square's web hosting (that annoying red Low Stock alert). As these sites are often created by an IT professional in an office somewhere, they don't have any idea of the end consumer trying to utilise them. One of the terribly time-consuming things about selling vintage online is that we're all here trying to sell individual pieces. We can't sell one in every colour, one in every size or "great this is...
Well it's time for my annual blog post! I always was a terrible diary keeper, but I have missed blogging a little recently so you never know I might fire it up again...March already and I still feel like the year is just getting started.
Well here you are on my blog / website & shopify store but I confess selling online on my own website is becoming harder than ever. I love my website with Shopify - it's easy to navigate, create collections and use as a master inventory but financially, it's just not paying off! With raising costs and a fluctuating exchange rate, paying for a US based shopify store means my costs have raised significantly from around $30 Aud to nearly $70 a month.This year I've just returned from a UK trip and am saving to go back again in the summer (Aussie winter) so I'm all about wealth creation and preservation to fund this second trip so these costs seem unjustified.Shopify always used...
