Hi there,
So there has been a few changes in the world of Just Sinead, first and foremost I have been super busy designing my Winter range and also stream lining the products I want to sell, the direction I want to take my business and how I can fit it all around my 'proper job' of full time parent! phew! So.... firstly the name, 'Just Sinead'. when I first decided to plunge into the world of craft fairs I totally over looked the fact that I would need a name! it was only when I was asked what I was called that I realised I wasn't really going to sell anything buy shrugging and saying 'oh its just some stuff I knocked up in my spare time' so I literally ran every name I liked into my computer to see if it already existed and yep turns out pretty much everything I liked was already out there somewhere doing business! damn them! So Just Sinead was born out of desperation and too much coffee... but now I'm more confident, I know where I want to take my 'Brand' I have to look at what will work long term, so once I have my website up and running the new trading name (which I have already let slip on facebook, will be unveiled) There also fantastic news on the horizon, in the shape of expanding where you can buy my products, having settled on focusing on children's apparel and decor for kids rooms I am able to set in motion being STOCKED in several retailers! its all hush hush right now...but there will be news soon on the wheres and whens....I'm beyond excited. I already have one amazing baby in the shape of my son, but this tiny business, that has kept me sane through the craziness of parenthood, unemployment, moving and generally having to be a grown up is blossoming into something I'm excited to be creating...now all I need is an assistant who would work for biscuits and cuppas!
S xx
Wednesday 29 August 2012
Sunday 19 August 2012
A model baby
Now I'm not normally one for splashing my sons picture all over this blog (its a different story on facebook!) but I did convince him to 'model' two of my kids T-shirts, it took some compromising, basically he didn't have to wear any trousers, which according to him would mean he simply couldn't model to his full capacity! the t-shirts are all a little big as he insisted on wearing the designs he liked not the ones that actually are for his age! so here is my son wearing an Ellie Tee in age 4-5 and a Fox Tee in the same sizing (he, might I add is not even three! hence the t-shirt looking more like a dress)
I imagine there will be many more photo's to come seeing as I'm designing mt Christmas range....
Friday 17 August 2012
A Friday photo edition
Tuesday 14 August 2012
A Tuesday Post
hello!
its been a while, Id like to say iv been so busy that I simply haven't had time to blog, but that would be a lie! After several craft fairs, and not many sales i decided to take some time to regroup, and think of where I want my business to go,plus I found myself totally wrapped up in the Olympics and ended up watching far too much diving and swimming!I'm enjoying the stress free crafting I have been able to do, with no deadlines to meet I have been making a quilt, and the odd t-shirt for my son to wear to nursery (yes I an shamelessly going to use my son as a walking advert for my clothes) But I have found the craft fairs to be an invaluable source of advice, Its fantastic speaking to other stall holders who for them this is a full time job, how they got where they are and the advice they can offer, by the end of my mammoth weekend I went home full of ideas.I have realised I have to think bigger, think about being stocked in shops rather then selling myself, yes I am building a website, and I will still do the odd craft fair, but Im building a brand and a career, so I have to be ambitious enough to reach for something that right now seems so far away. So its back to the drawing board, stream lining what I do and above all getting it out there as a quality product.....lets hope my current level of motivation is still here come September when my son goes to nursery and for the first time in 3 years Il have mornings to myself, the temptation to veg out or go back to bed may prove impossible to resist!
its been a while, Id like to say iv been so busy that I simply haven't had time to blog, but that would be a lie! After several craft fairs, and not many sales i decided to take some time to regroup, and think of where I want my business to go,plus I found myself totally wrapped up in the Olympics and ended up watching far too much diving and swimming!I'm enjoying the stress free crafting I have been able to do, with no deadlines to meet I have been making a quilt, and the odd t-shirt for my son to wear to nursery (yes I an shamelessly going to use my son as a walking advert for my clothes) But I have found the craft fairs to be an invaluable source of advice, Its fantastic speaking to other stall holders who for them this is a full time job, how they got where they are and the advice they can offer, by the end of my mammoth weekend I went home full of ideas.I have realised I have to think bigger, think about being stocked in shops rather then selling myself, yes I am building a website, and I will still do the odd craft fair, but Im building a brand and a career, so I have to be ambitious enough to reach for something that right now seems so far away. So its back to the drawing board, stream lining what I do and above all getting it out there as a quality product.....lets hope my current level of motivation is still here come September when my son goes to nursery and for the first time in 3 years Il have mornings to myself, the temptation to veg out or go back to bed may prove impossible to resist!
Sunday 5 August 2012
bye bye craft fairs..hello A/W designs!
its been a LONG week! 3 craft fairs in one week, here are a few pics of ths weekend, Big news tomorrow, its the start of the JUST SINEAD SALE!!!!
Friday 3 August 2012
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