I made a sale! :)

In August 2007, I signed up at CafePress and uploaded some designs I randomly made for fun. The site is pretty cool. You get to sell different products - t-shirts, mugs, notebooks, magnets, etc - with your design on it without the hassle of actually producing the products themselves and more importantly, without having to shell out capital. You simply earn when you make a sale by the mark up price you determine yourself.

I was out of a job then so naturally I was thinking of various crazy stuff to do. One of which was putting together a charity event where I could sell T-shirts with the "I love.." theme - "I love to shop", "I love to read".. you get the idea. Anyway, the point was to encourage people, especially teens, to not be ashamed of being themselves, of being proud of what they enjoyed doing and not having to feel pressured to simply conform. Well, that was the idea. And then some time during all this daydreaming I stumbled onto CafePress and put my designs there.

I even made a logo.

I'd almost forgotten entirely about it till I got an email from them this morning saying I made a sale! :)



I was overjoyed!

Haha okay so it was only ONE item. And it took almost 18 months before I actually made a sale. But still, it made me feel a bit proud :) Haha.

Anyway, this just makes me want to design more stuff, to see where it goes. You never know, I might make another sale in a year or so. Hehe.

Oh well, if you're interested, you can visit my shop (hehe) here: http://www.cafepress.com/byLavinia

Oh, btw, this is the item that was sold: