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#922 - Nashville Paint-by-Numbers Kits Become Etsy Bestsellers

2019-07-11

A visual arts teacher creates “paint by numbers” kits to help others experience joy through painting. 

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husband and I were off work during the summer we couldn't afford to travel. We have finally and our goal of travelling and are taking our family to Mexico this summer and have trips in the works Europe and Asia. For later this year, he feels great to be able to dream Trips that I now know will become a reality. So what's your side us all, while she creates paint my numbers, kids to help others experience joy through painting or kits feature popular figures like Mr Rogers, as well as national highlights like hot chicken, Last year, this teacher slashed side, Ostler earned thirty thousand dollars from these kids and this year she's on track to double. It. Welcome dishonest score Miss Cristel about. If you find your buddy constrained or your experience is limited and the ability to take international trips vacations Maybe you need another source of income, and perhaps you would something in the story to help you take the next step, stay tuned. It's all coming up after this message from our spot
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Come on now, Spencer Days. As a visual arts teacher in Nashville, Tennessee people always told her. She should teach art, but she was reluctant worried about her passion becoming a job should doubt met. She was and it turned out. She loves it more than ever. She also owns the boutique paid by numbers. Studio aptly named paint the town by numbers there. She create curious paint by numbers kits of people places and things that reflect puzzled. Some of our best Sars include pop artist, Andy Warhol Supreme Court Justice, Ruth bade her Ginsburg, also known as the notorious archaeology and famed television personality. Mr Rogers color names for committees, paint pellets also helped tell the story each kit with pleasure, for example, her Nashville paint. My numbers kit features color names like hot chicken, biscuits, Ya'Ll and barbecue sauce.
Cats have not enjoyed by people in every state across the country. But how does it come to be right just started as a project she was creating for fire when she finished can really do it with special. She ran across the street to show her neighbor, boldly declaring I'm gonna turn this into a paint by numbers kit. Little did she know how much work that would become. It took her two years to produce the first kit. Those years were spent I merely on developing a product with an overseas manufacturer she found on line and the learning curve a steep. There was a great deal of back and forth, the snail mail across the ocean, lots of consideration of sample kits test paintings, the quality of the paints and brushes etc, and all those factors combined with a lack between timezone to prolong the process likely she had somehow in the form of a more experienced friends who guided her through the development start up, costs were twelve thousand dollars, all of which went to cover production in shipping ever first product
she set her costs, were hired, wanted to raise the quantities produced and lower prices for customers, because some manufacturers have minimum ordering quantities. These are known as M o cues, nor, to put this sizeable some and recover her cos. Camilla turned a crowd funding projects through kickstart and I find women to gain additional campaign exposure. She wrote press releases and receive a couple of spots on looking tv. These efforts paid off raising over ten thousand hours. She covered the remaining caused by selling handbill kids at local art festivals. Her customer base grew out of those first campaigns. Camilla said when they ended. She personally delivered her kids to the doors of every person who ordered from local area and that's, broadly speaking, she actually covered hundreds of miles and says now meeting the people who believed in me
it took a chance on the product was one of the most soul. Satisfying experiences of my life she's also got some words of wisdom for anyone wanting to begin their own paint by numbers. Hustle advice is to start with research, collect samples of various paint by numbers kits meet with local printers and assembly companies have in person. Conversations about kinds of paper or other material used in production test. A variety of paints and brushes to become family with what's available in the industry committee recently, get away from her overseas contact in favour of producing her kids locally. Her sewing platform of choice is Etsy. She says it just keeps things simple and since launching in February twenty seventeen pay, the town by numbers, has artfully crafted a significant income, but kits run between twenty and twenty five dollars each in twenty eighteen. She earn. Thirty, in dollars, and net income. She's now interact double that number and twenty nineteen she's also approaching a point where it might be possible leave her day job in pursuit,
The town by numbers full time, preparation for such a leap she and her husband had begun, looking more seriously, how it might suffer for Canada how this business long ago, she had a couple of things she was doing She had a hand painted invitation business. She was trying to get started Then she did occurring book Series and she also an original works of art, custom, acrylic portraits a few different things in none of these projects really took off, but she says not at these failed attempts. Shaving describes them has failed attempt
you were what led to her pink. My number is business, so you can kind of sea a trajectory she grows up really creative becomes an architecture. She doesn't want to other stuff, contrasting imitations, colouring books, original works of art and she's like what about paid by numbers, and so it doesn't completely come out of the blue comes out of this history. This track record of exploring different things within the arts and then figuring out. How do I go from project released from idea? actual product that is for sale at sea. How do I figure out the branding? How do I figured out how to manufacture these first overseas and then locally etc? So that's a centrally the exploration, the process there she's got a really fine, looking Etsy shop so be sure to take a look and we will end up in a short space of time. Where's, as always, inspiration is good, but inspiration with action is so much better show notes are honest. Well, slash nine to two nine hundred and twenty two we back tomorrow. Thank you. So much for listening, you sure subscribed this is
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