One Foot in Front of The Other

I'd been throwing the idea around to start this business for at least a year. Babywearing, breastfeeding tops, toys, accessories... I have all these designs in my head that DESERVE to be made and blessing people everywhere. I've dreamed about it, thought about it, talked about it. I finally put one foot in front of the other and started walking it out.


I kept thinking I needed to save up so much money first, I needed to have a huge plan, I needed it all figured out.....blah, blah, blah. So this panicky feeling of overwhelm kept me back. Silly, I know, but it took me awhile to see past it.

This whole time I knew in the back of my head who I wanted to work with. Someone who was like me, but a mirror image. See, I can ghetto rig, create.. basically pull anything out of thin air if I really have to. You learn that the way I grew up. Feeding a family of 12 off of 3 cans and 2 chicken breasts can be done, and my mother is a miracle worked. Anyway, so I'm 80% visionary and 20% business. I really enjoy administrative work, weirdo that I am. What I needed was someone who was a flip flop version of me. Someone who would completely dedicate themselves to the vision and share it with me. Yet this perfect match needed to be 80% business and 20% creative visionary. And since I started daydreaming about this, I knew exactly who the perfect person would be.
Lani is all of those things and more. She has been working with me for the last 6 weeks or so and I think it's going to be even better than I thought. She's actually getting me organized and challenging me to shoot higher than I thought we would. And you know what? She's right. We can do this!!!

I love what I'm doing, except that I can't do it all. It's amazing. I projected a certain number of items I wanted to sell, and completely surpassed it. Not only that, I've found that I enjoy designing and playing with fabric even more and more. So reinforcements are in order! I am so excited to have Lani joining me as we get this business rolling.


Those are my thoughts for today. I have some orders to get out, so Id better get to stitchin'.