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Our Taste Of Walmart Weddings & Custom T-shirt - Week Recap

  A New heat press, Walmart Supercenter & 2 Weddings

And to top it off, the Taste of Niagara Falls on Sunday. Yes, it’s been one unbelievable week!

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We have been home exactly one week from our trip to Virginia Beach and as I write, I simply just miss the warmth Virginia had to offer. With that being said, hoodie weather is upon us and it’s one of Peggy and my favorite time of the year!

I am going to start something exciting, and that is writing these blog posts out. I have been working more and more on my writing skills and I felt that it would be awesome to have the chance to relay our exciting moments. This gives us a chance to connect to those that are interested and it offers me a reason to pursue writing and exchanging ideas/thoughts through content and show off some of our custom t-shirt designs. If you ever have any input, questions or want to add your input, please feel free to comment away!

Last Saturday, the 26th of August, we were pulling into the driveway from the long drive back to NY around 10am. We anticipated this day to be an interesting one before we even left for Virginia. To give a little more insight, less than one week before leaving for Virginia, both of our heat presses ended up malfunctioning/breaking down. Pretty exciting stuff! New presses were ordered and had been delivered while we were gone. This was to make sure when we got home, we could start knocking out orders that we had taken before leaving and on vacation.

Early in the week, we ran production and completed the custom t-shirt orders we had on had, there were about 4-5 hoodies, 15-20 custom t-shirt, a few puzzles and a handful of ornaments to get done before we were “caught up”. This doesn’t include the large wedding seating arrangements mirror we had been putting together in between. I can’t wait to share photos of how beautiful that came out! (Have to wait until after the wedding)

Wednesday & Thursday, I was able to catch up on a lot of the website layout and add more products to our store. The website building has been an extremely long and drawn out process for us. For those who aren’t aware or didn’t notice, while we were on vacation, the website was completely redone. In simple terms, I “factory reset” our website and started back at scratch. I chose to start over because our website was being designed for desktop use and not mobile. I honestly didn’t even put any thought into the mobile aspect until it felt like I was too far into the design to go back. Although changing the design over to a mobile first design was possible, sometimes it’s easier to start fresh somewhere than it is to try and fix problem after problem. It’s a huge trip to me that our website has been one of the biggest constant struggles for us considering I love web design and I’ve done a handful of other company websites/blogs and e-commerce stores. The way I see it, it’s always harder to create your own, anything. Like an architect creating their own home, I’m sure it never seems ‘perfect’, but when it comes to building someone else’s, easy peasy. None-the-less, our website is coming along great, the front page is still giving me grief but I’m confident that I will find a layout and fill it with sections that looks great, I just need to keep plugging away and find what works.

Friday was awesome! We had a few more orders to complete and I had a chance to rearrange our work area. It was long(week) overdue since we came back to new presses and had inventory come in that we didn’t get to moving around yet. About 3 in the afternoon, we received a call from the Lockport Walmart Supercenter asking if we could brand some tablecloths for them. Of course, we can! After hanging up the phone with them, PeggyJo shot over to Walmart to scoop up the tablecloths and to talk over the quote. Within 45 minutes, Peggy was back home with a huge box of tablecloths! We didn’t have a whole lot of time to talk about the new gig as we were already running late to a wedding rehearsal which took up most of the remaining evening.

I’m writing this Saturday morning, as we have a wedding to attend today around 3 and then tomorrow, we will be at the Taste of Niagara Falls! I don’t expect to have much free time to type something like this out in the next two days, but for the following weeks, I aim to post these recaps each Sunday with photos of the custom t-shirt orders through the week.

We are very excited for the Taste of Niagara Falls since we have never been to it as a taster or a vendor. It’s a completely new experience for us and we hope to make a lot of new connections. We really enjoy just telling people about what we do. It’s great seeing peoples faces and reactions to the products we create. Although we don’t have the room to bring everything, we bring enough to really show off our cool stuff. We bring a few puzzles, plaques and a bunch of signs that we have created. Along with the sublimation items, we, of course, bring a bunch of t-shirts! We aim to double our sales with our Pizza & Beer design and we are bringing more “Sorry for what I said when I was HANGRY” design. Both of these t-shirt designs were great attention grabbers and conversation starters.