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Shopify Siesta

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...

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2023>2024

Well what a year 2023 was! Running a small business is a challenge at the best of times but this year has really taken me to the limits.The last few years I've been trying to get on-top of my finances post-covid, after 5 long years of not being able & not having the money or health to travel, 2023 was the year I found myself scrambling for more work and more money to fund a trip back to the UK.Kitten Vintage is just one of my side-hustles - alongside parenting / working as a marketing assistant and some teaching at Sydney Creative. Adding more events into already packed life is something of a challenge but 2023 saw me adding Grassroots, Fashion Thrift Society and...

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Vinnies, I love you but you're bringing me down...

There's been a flurry of new stories around like this piece on ABC News about Fast Fashion swamping opshops and I have to say I am feeling a little drowned out by kmart t-shirts in my weekly visits. Ok, so I go in opshops. I go in a lot of opshops. Charity shops, flea markets, vintage fairs, garage sales and jumble sales, I've even been known to rummage through bags left out for council collection. I've been all over the world with a blue Ikea bag filled full of thrifted treasures so lets just say I can hunt down a vintage piece from a great distance.Since moving to Sydney 9 years ago I've ventured all over the city in pursuit of the best...

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Round She Goes - Finally Back in Sydney!!!

EDIT: Due to Sydney Covid Cluster this event has been postponed date TBAWell Sydney friends, Covid Life has been a strange old time - I don't get involved in too many events but Round She Goes has been a strong date in my diary since I first moved to Sydney. It's such an awesome event and I enjoy shopping and the social atmosphere of this great event as much as I enjoy selling and meeting people.The last event was back in October 2019 - when the world felt such a different place, but my life has changed oh-so-much since my very first Round She Goes back in July 2014: I was still using my old brandname Me&Yu and looking back at...

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Thirning Villa, Ashfield Pop Up Project

I love supporting local business but my suburb of Ashfield is more renown for tasty eateries than pop-up shops. I was so pleased to see this fabulous Pop Up Project by Apricot+Lime  (Rosell and Eleni). A collection of vintage homewares; selected artworks by local artist Jacqueline Larcombe and even more exciting to me - a few racks of fabulous vintage clothing! The beautiful Thirning Villa (gallery & artist in residence space) is just so well suited to this kind of venture. It's picturesque setting in between the tennis club, the bowling club and the sports oval mean it's a perfect place to sit on the verandah and enjoy a coffee or tasty treat. I'm sure in the roaring 20's some rather fabulously dressed local types...

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