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1 Week until Unique LA!

We’re knee deep in Unique LA Prep! If you haven’t heard of it Unique LA is a market where artisans and small businesses, like myself, can sell our products and get face-to-face with our customers. I love doing shows like this because of that fact. As an ecommerce store owner you don’t really get to meet your customers and shows like Unique LA give us that opportunity.

This past week I’ve been focused on getting our booth all set up and fawncy 🙂 If you follow us on Snapchat (cartel_co) you saw us putting together our collapsible table that Charlie made this past week. Sorry for the bad quality photo, it took us all day to make so I didn’t have any natural light left when we finished.

Charlie measuring before he cuts

Pieces coming together

Completed Folding Table

Next step – setting up the booth at home and then staining the wood. I’m still waiting on product from 1 manufacturer and have a bunch of cards to make (trying to remain calm :)) so Friday and Tuesday will be my big push to get things done and printed.

Hope all you vendors participating are more ready than I am! And I hope to see the rest of you next week at Unique LA!

xoxo,

Kissa

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Unique LA Prep

We’re back this year friends!

Catch Ninong’s Pastries and I as we sell our goods at Unique LA on April 30th and May 1st!

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We’re so excited to be back! We have a fun new product release that we’re launching at the show, so keep your eyes peeled for some fun stuff coming soon!

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Product Development and the Road to Unique LA

Oh dear friends. These past few weeks have been so much fun for me!  Creating designs and products is something that I really enjoy. The hard part is narrowing my ideas down. My mind never stops and I always have more product ideas than what is feasible for us at the moment. In the past, I was always the type that had an idea and ran with it. It didn’t matter what the idea was, it didn’t matter if the idea or product didn’t match with anything else. I would create that product anyway. Our product line was such a mish-mash. But now, I realize that product development is key. Do all your products represent your brand the way you want them to? Mine didn’t.

I’m in the middle of solidifying our line for our first real release. And I’ve been torn about a few items that I used to carry and am hesitant to carry now. Invitations and custom design for example. These 2 services were a huge part of my business until recently – especially in the first few years of my business. But my business is changing, I’m changing, and what I enjoy to do isn’t what it used to be. I’ve been torn about these 2 services since I decided it was time for a change. But instead of stressing myself about it, I trust that the answer will come to me when the time is right. In the mean time, I’m creating and working on what I know represents us well. 🙂

What I’m really excited about right now are the products we’re going to showcase at our “soft launch” at Unique LA. We’ve taken down our products temporarily from our online store because we’ve been doing a lot of critical thinking and changing around here, but I’ve been showing sneak peeks on our Instagram on the things we’ve been working on like these stickers. Excuse my shameful manicure! 😛

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And this photo here.

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This was originally a pattern we created for our phone and tablets but are in the process of utilizing this gorgeousness for other products. So excited to be able to use this for cards and stuff!

Hope everyone has a great week!

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