Week 2: Decisions, Decisions

This week, our project hasn't made much progress. We have yet to find a name that fits both the subject and sounds unique. The only idea was Chrimi (pronounced creamy), which was a mixture of my own name and Mimi's. After we come up with an amazing name, we hope to come up with an even more amazing logo to print out on shirts and sell them to the general public. Hopefully, this idea will turn out to be more successful since it is targeting both male and female customers--something our other products don't quite do. 

As for our supplies, we didn't have another chance to go shopping again, but each of us have split the responsibility of going out and getting the items. 

I'm in charge of ordering the studs and checking out some fabric, and Mimi's getting dye and researching other items we can make and sell. We've decided on what to do with each item, though we need to do a test trial to make sure none of our experiments surprise us in that stomach-curdling way. 

One thing I am definitely excited to be doing is ripping apart some pieces then completely remaking them into something people would wear. Doing something like that has always been my mindset as truly creative, and I finally get to take part of it! 

The time seems to be passing so quickly because each of us has our own obligations, whether it be with family or with school. However, this project is blooming beautifully and I'm quite excited for it to open in April. 

The First of Many

Excuse my biology book in the upright corner~

In the picture above are all the items Mimi and I picked up on our very first official thrifting spree for our still un-named business! It was quite exciting, yet tiring considering we wanted to get as many pieces as possible to start off our shop without completely emptying out both of our wallets.

Most of the items, we have a pretty general idea of what we want done to them, whether it's bleaching, lacing, studding, or dyeing, we are prepared for a long battle of making these plain pieces into fashionable items that girls and guys would want to wear today.

We're starting our business making items more focused on females simply because we are...females. From that point of view, it's easier for us to get an idea of what other girls are looking for and what we think they would like. Though this business is kind of a hit-or-miss thing, depending on what the girls' tastes are, we're ready to accept the challenge. After all, didn't great businesses like Apple and Tiffany & Co. start off as angled only at a particular market? Didn't they then grow and expand? That's what we intend to do, and with the support of our amazing classmates and (hopefully) some wonderful people internationally, we can make our little store blossom!

Wish us luck and until next time!

No Namer Business Set To Be Open April 1st!

Hi everyone! 

This blog here is dedicated to the little business that Christine (that's me) and Mimi have started in the efforts to get an A on this DIY project assigned by Mr. Ziebarth. So, what exactly are we doing?

Together, Mimi and I have decided to start a cute little online shop to sell to both our classmates and internationally, depending on who's interested, of course. The skeleton of our thoughts are that we will basically go thrifting every month to find some new pieces, re-design them in ways we would wear them or in ways that we think would look cute, and then re-sell them to the public.

Since most of the pieces are thrifted, it's pretty safe to say that what you buy from us is 100% original. However, most of our inspirations will be from the wonderful world wide web, so there is no doubt that some of the things purchased will be similar, but not exact, copies of the things that you might see on Tumblr or Pinterest or Etsy, and other sites similar to those. 

I am more than excited to start this small business because I've always wanted to try my hand at the world of entrepreneurship. This shop's just a cute little way to get our ideas out to you and hope that you like them~! 

Please enjoy and look forward to some of our starter pieces come April 1st, 2013!