Scheming
Comments (0) Ok. I’m already getting bad at being more or less consistent with the posting, but I do have an excuse. I’ve been considering, slightly more seriously than usual, the possibility of embarking on the whole etsy thing. A very small side business would seriously up my vacation and new computer funds. (And pay for my freaking visa, which is another post altogether.)
In any case, I’ve been looking at money. I know a few friends who do the etsy thing, but they’re all American, so I can ask for advice til I’m blue in the teeth, but none of them are going to know a lick about UK income tax and VAT and the way business accounts work over here and all that. Plus all the books I’ve read on that stuff are American as well. So I’ve been trying to do the research here and there while also redesigning the design part of my website in my brain, because it’s going to need an update and an overhaul.
If anyone cares to weigh in on what sort of things they’d buy, that would rock. I’m doing a lot of screenprinting practice runs. I’ve got some plans for posters and things, and I like printing stationery. But I’m also thinking I’ll refine my yoga mat bag and various other simple accessories. I really want to start printing my own fabric, but I think I need to have my own screen to do that because it requires special inks that EP probably don’t let you use on hired screens. And my hired screen just split last week, so any money I had thought about putting towards my own is now going to the repair. Lame. But that’s how it goes. I consoled myself by pointing out that these things could soon count as business expenses.
Anyway, that’s what’s happening around these parts. I’ll try to post something more exciting soon.
