Our first official venture - Weecycled Wardrobe gave us some insight into what stock sells. Basically, EVERYTHING except our turtle shirts. Good news - (I have also found a very cute romper that i think will be our new turtle venue - we shall see!) it sure would be sad to have to put down some designs that hadn't had a chance to live and thrive. AND we sold 17/52 shirts. Right - but those people are out for a bargain right!? They're not up for spending 14 bucks per shirt. We'll just keep telling ourselves that.....
AND commit to a new venue who won't take 45% of our revenue, BUT require us to take a new stance on our wares and make them ATHLETIC...HEALTHY....WELL. Yes, we have weaseled our way into the Health and Wellness Fair at the Park Ridge 5K Run- thanks to a very clever coordinator that really wanted us to get in and made some helpful suggestions....and thus we are dyeing socks. Do you have any idea how stressful it is dyeing socks??
No. 1 - You have to dye a lot of socks.
No. 2 - Because you have SO many socks to dye you have options. Enter most stressful point for me. DECIDING. What colours, how many, how far apart to put the elastics BAHHHHH! Truly, until you become conscious of the fact that you are taking so much time thinking and worrying about sock allocation your heart rate really can sky rocket.
No. 3 - Mass production of socks when you seem to be having a bad dye day. Right, so you're not just messing up a shirt or two that you can pull some of your clever "shirt recovery tricks" on - these are multiple socks....that you might be wearing for the rest of your life. And your kids. And your relatives. Hmmm...socks in goody bags...not a bad idea...BUT ANYWAY...
No. 4 - Due to insane life, one has not taken the time to fully experiment with sock dyeing and thus becomes stressed simply because of the unknown and become plagued with worst case scenerio what ifs.
Bottom line. I sure hope tie dye socks are really popular.
SO, thanks to my dyeing of socks, and attempting to saturate saturate saturate...and getting the bottle hooked on some elastics and flicking it forcefully into my face I walked around with blue specks all over my face for an entire afternoon. I cut it way too close to consider washing my face before dashing out for swimming/gymnastics etc. so I pocketed some convenient business cards and thought - HEY - people see the freaky face - I can simply pull out a card and drum up some business. Can you believe NO one - asside from the two people that I knew fairly well that I ran into and already know about Tie Dyeliciousness NO ONE SAID A WORD!! So my plan is to really get myself next time with multiple colour of dye, do a more dye than skin type thing, and THEN I'm sure I'll get some hits. Instead people must have thought I was just plain dirty and neglecting personal hygiene.
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