Day 36 - Tuesday
This week has been amazingly productive. I can't believe how much I've accomplished. It's too hard to recap each day, so instead I'm going to do a week in pictures.
Resorted my study/warehouse. Ha ha ha. No seriously, this is the room I store all the admin side of things, schedules, paperwork, stock, supplies etc. Originally it was a bit chaotic and difficult for myself or Niina to get to things. Now, everything has its place and is easy to access.
I love that everything is in containers. I also sorted out my schedule board properly. This lists all the pending things I need to send applications into, or to submit work to. My client jobs are stored in a seperate area.
This is how I store my greeting cards. Named and labelled, seperated and packaged up individually.
My new system for my badges/magnets/rings and necklaces. Previously they were stored packaged in bags, in big tubs. A total pain to sort through when I only needed one design and had to look through 40 of them! Also, storage was a huge issue to store them packaged. Too much packaging would get damaged, and it was time consuming to package up everything in the first place, then have to repackage things all the time.
So now this is the new system. Each badge made up in its own section, numbered. Then as a sale comes through, or a wholesale order, the item is popped onto its packaging.... and all done! I wish I had containers like this, but bigger for my badges and pocket mirrors. I'd love to sort them in the same way.
I also sorted all my supplies out so the parts for certain products correspond to eachother as wekk as relabelling all the containers. Unfortunately I ran out of labels halfway through, so I still need to finish that job. The containers are working really well though, and make it easy to see when I'm running low on a certain part.
My new packaging!! I can't believe how much I've learnt since I last created packaging (October 2008), and how much more advanced these are in comparison. It was nice to sit down and work out exactly what I wanted from the new packaging, and correlate it to the needs of each individual item.
There were a few reasons I wanted to repackage my products. Firstly, there was no colour and they were quite flat when displayed in a group. Secondly, I wanted to have a clearer identity into my brand. I work with bold bright colours, patterns, and wanted that to come across in how they were displayed. I also wanted to be more environmentally conscious on how I packaged my products. To do that I wanted to use recycled card, less plastic, and less packaging as a whole. So that is what I've been working hard on to achieve.
As you can see my magnets are just simply tacked onto a sheet of card. (Originally they were packaged in a bag, then had a fold over card stapled to them.) Less time consuming to package, less wastage, and looking gorgeous!!
I'm so excited and I can't wait to finish it all! I'm really pleased so far.
Lastly, we've been doing photoshoots for the past few days. I'm totally loving the end results. This is one of my prints simply popped into a frame. Doesn't she look gorgeous?! Only 450 photos left to edit.... =) Oh, and probably another 500 to take!
I've also -
This week has been so productive that I'm really excited about the next few months and what things may bring. I still can't believe it is less then six months until Christmas!!
This week has been amazingly productive. I can't believe how much I've accomplished. It's too hard to recap each day, so instead I'm going to do a week in pictures.
Resorted my study/warehouse. Ha ha ha. No seriously, this is the room I store all the admin side of things, schedules, paperwork, stock, supplies etc. Originally it was a bit chaotic and difficult for myself or Niina to get to things. Now, everything has its place and is easy to access.
I love that everything is in containers. I also sorted out my schedule board properly. This lists all the pending things I need to send applications into, or to submit work to. My client jobs are stored in a seperate area.
This is how I store my greeting cards. Named and labelled, seperated and packaged up individually.
My new system for my badges/magnets/rings and necklaces. Previously they were stored packaged in bags, in big tubs. A total pain to sort through when I only needed one design and had to look through 40 of them! Also, storage was a huge issue to store them packaged. Too much packaging would get damaged, and it was time consuming to package up everything in the first place, then have to repackage things all the time.
So now this is the new system. Each badge made up in its own section, numbered. Then as a sale comes through, or a wholesale order, the item is popped onto its packaging.... and all done! I wish I had containers like this, but bigger for my badges and pocket mirrors. I'd love to sort them in the same way.
I also sorted all my supplies out so the parts for certain products correspond to eachother as wekk as relabelling all the containers. Unfortunately I ran out of labels halfway through, so I still need to finish that job. The containers are working really well though, and make it easy to see when I'm running low on a certain part.
My new packaging!! I can't believe how much I've learnt since I last created packaging (October 2008), and how much more advanced these are in comparison. It was nice to sit down and work out exactly what I wanted from the new packaging, and correlate it to the needs of each individual item.
There were a few reasons I wanted to repackage my products. Firstly, there was no colour and they were quite flat when displayed in a group. Secondly, I wanted to have a clearer identity into my brand. I work with bold bright colours, patterns, and wanted that to come across in how they were displayed. I also wanted to be more environmentally conscious on how I packaged my products. To do that I wanted to use recycled card, less plastic, and less packaging as a whole. So that is what I've been working hard on to achieve.
As you can see my magnets are just simply tacked onto a sheet of card. (Originally they were packaged in a bag, then had a fold over card stapled to them.) Less time consuming to package, less wastage, and looking gorgeous!!
I'm so excited and I can't wait to finish it all! I'm really pleased so far.
Lastly, we've been doing photoshoots for the past few days. I'm totally loving the end results. This is one of my prints simply popped into a frame. Doesn't she look gorgeous?! Only 450 photos left to edit.... =) Oh, and probably another 500 to take!
I've also -
- caught up on all outstanding e-mails
- updated the Made On The Left website
- cleaned my art studio and set that up
- started to file and sort through my reference images
- changed over all my costs/purchases to my new visa debit card (fake credit card) to seperate all credit card purchases from my personal finances
- started working on some wholesale orders
- oh and most importantly baked some choc chip cookies!!
- finish all of the product packaging
- finish all outstanding illustration work
- complete as much client work as possible
This week has been so productive that I'm really excited about the next few months and what things may bring. I still can't believe it is less then six months until Christmas!!
