Re-inventing Tisetas

Once I have decided my main goal , I need little stepping stones to reach it. There are many things who have to be done in order to have a shop or live from my work. Specially when I have a regular payed job, no savings , I live in one of the most expensive cities in the world and I like to go to concerts, musicals, eating out or short trips every now and then. Since I don't think I will get a big lump sum so I can leave my job for some time and have a go at it, these are the steps I have in mind : Renew designs. Create new products with its packaging.  Increase online presence . Produce a catalogue and send to shops. Look up about trade shows or events. See if I can go to bigger markets. See if I can rent a space in a shop for some time or a pop up shop for 2 weeks. I would need some steady income from my online shop, equal to at least over £500 a month in order to continue from here to: Drop days at my current job. Rent office space so I can store my things be...

Having an online shop is not as easy as it sounds. It involves quite a lot of work , and it can be daunting if you are a 'solopreneur' like me. Things I have to do include: Doing the illustrations. Adapting those illustrations to the objects they are going to be printed on. Research prices, times and production of those objects -and order them. Deciding on packaging, and packing them!Also stocking up envelopes ,bubble wrap, tape, pens and labels. Keep track of finances (I am terrible at this). Manage social media accounts on Twitter(I don't), Facebook (barely), Instagram (most days). I am also the one who ends up deciding on content, producing it, researching hashtags, trying to interact with other users... Uploading listings on Etsy , writing descriptions, finding the right keywords. Photography : sometimes my friend helps me with the Etsy photos and some social media ones. She does some editing as well! Search for ideas for more illustrations. Customer serv...

Tisetas is a  weird word , don't you think? It doesn't have a meaning in any language I know. Actually it comes as the result of a fusion of two words: T-shirts and camisetas ( the Spanish word for T-shirts).I liked it and after a thought or two added the &Co. For me it is important to be open to other possibilities and to work with other people. It all started because I was tired of going to shops and not finding cool messages on t-shirts aimed for ladies . They were all "I love Justin/Brad/Tom/You Name It" glittery-starry-flowery-stuff (which I don't have anything against). However all  male ones had great, quirky and funny  slogans . I didn't think that was fair so I wondered if I could design witty slogans for female t-shirts.  I did it some on online patforms like Spreadshirt where you can upload your designs and people can order things with it without you having  the physical product or investing any money on production, even though I didn´t do ...

Hello and welcome. This is probably the 3rd of 4th time I've tried to go for a blog. I was never sure if anyone would be interested on me or my journey. And I can get easily distracted and forget about it. But I thought I could give it another go.  My name is Felicidad, I am from Spain and I've been living in London for a bit over 10 years. I have a full time job in a tourist hotspot. However I like drawing, illustrating , stationery and gifts and that is why I opened my Etsy shop some years ago with positive quotes and postcards amongst other little gifts.  It has been slowly growing but with all these algorithm changes on Etsy , Instagram and company , results dipped a bit. My computer also broke and there were other series of unfortunate events happening that made me rethink everything. So I took the decision to start  -almost- from scratch. In this blog I am going to try to share my journey and my learning process. And my internal debates. And the challenge...