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Pin money?
Jul. 19th, 2006 02:10 pmSo, um, with Dad's med bills, and me wanting to buy a new shower chair, I'm thinking of setting up a CafePress store, as I've seen others on my f'list do. ... not to try and make enough money to pay all my bills, mind you... just a little something to take some of the edge off.
Many, many years ago, I thought I'd start my own business, hand painting sweatshirts for wearable art, and putting little original poems on them -- haikus, or at least, poemlets of similar length. I just thought that seeing poems walking around on people's chests and backs would be a refreshing change from seeing commercial logos and crass jokes. I even had a name for my might-be business: "Off-the-cuff Poetry". But then the thought of figuring out how to set up a studio, and crank out the stuff on a schedule took the fun out of it, so I gave the idea up.
But now, I'm thinking that I could do it with CafePress shirts (and hats, and whatevers -- a sonnet about time on the face of a wall clock? My drabble about the Internet on a mousepad?). If I did that, would you buy?
Then, yesterday, I was poking around the CafePress site, I saw that they also print up books and magazines And I thought maybe I could put collections of my stories in book form and publish them. I saw books for sale, but I couldn't find any information on making a book, or any templates for books for downloading. So it was all very arghish.
Anyway, what do you think?
Any advice? You think this is a good idea, bad idea, or just a meh idea?
And if I could make a book, would you prefer that to wearable stuff?
Comments are lusted after. They are as the balm of Gilead.
Many, many years ago, I thought I'd start my own business, hand painting sweatshirts for wearable art, and putting little original poems on them -- haikus, or at least, poemlets of similar length. I just thought that seeing poems walking around on people's chests and backs would be a refreshing change from seeing commercial logos and crass jokes. I even had a name for my might-be business: "Off-the-cuff Poetry". But then the thought of figuring out how to set up a studio, and crank out the stuff on a schedule took the fun out of it, so I gave the idea up.
But now, I'm thinking that I could do it with CafePress shirts (and hats, and whatevers -- a sonnet about time on the face of a wall clock? My drabble about the Internet on a mousepad?). If I did that, would you buy?
Then, yesterday, I was poking around the CafePress site, I saw that they also print up books and magazines And I thought maybe I could put collections of my stories in book form and publish them. I saw books for sale, but I couldn't find any information on making a book, or any templates for books for downloading. So it was all very arghish.
Anyway, what do you think?
Any advice? You think this is a good idea, bad idea, or just a meh idea?
And if I could make a book, would you prefer that to wearable stuff?
Comments are lusted after. They are as the balm of Gilead.
