The business side of the business [Line Sheets]...

For the past week I've been working toward checking off a major item of my to do list.  This item is the line sheet for my AI Collection.  It's a collection that I feel I can produce multiples of consistently and quickly enough to approach boutiques about placing it on their shelves.  I am excited about the prospect of it all and I really want to do it right.

What's not exciting is the business side of running your own creative business!  Creating this line sheet has been both frustrating and draining.  Tons of research online to figure out what a line sheet is in the first place, customizing it to my pieces so it's not twenty pages and maneuvering around the fact that I am not as computer savvy as I thought I was.

At this point the look of the line sheet has been locked in and I just need to photograph the new Large AI Earrings that I am adding to the collection (in new fun summer colors!) and I'll be done! It's been a tough week, but I know that once I push through this and everything else on my to do list that good things will come.

[The picture is of the first 2 of the 5 pages]

And so it begins...

Okay...so it actually began a couple of months ago...steps on a path leading to what I hope to be really great things.  See,  I have worked on movies and television shows for over 10 years.  I love the business, but working in film is not as creative an endeavor as one would assume. Well, not in the positions that I've worked in anyway.

When I was a little girl I would make clothes out of brown paper bags.  I would design outfits for my barbies. I would make daisy chain bracelets. I would basically do anything that allowed a creative outlet.  Not because I wanted to, but because I needed to.

Now here I am, many years later, having hopped from one hobby to another...when I had time to.  Then a couple of months back I decided that enough was enough. I've worked really hard and I deserved to take a break and actually focus on being creative.  I took a leap, a very scary leap and started Chocolate Sushi Handmade.

 
I created this blog to document the journey of a woman...(that's me!)...trying to become a successful entrepreneur while working out of her one bedroom apartment in NYC.  I hope you'll come along with me through the ups and downs and lessons learned, but mostly I hope it will encourage you to take your first, scary leap!

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