Starting a Baby Boutique & Clothing Line

Falling behind in the season schedule - still designing

June 12th, 2007

Starting the season off with a bang!!! Well, that was the plan anyways. Now, here I am, already falling behind schedule. I will give credit to the amount of designing I’ve done. Though you wouldn’t know it, because I have nothing to show for it. But I’ve given it a lot of thought and research and planning in my head. This is a lot of the design work, but definitely not all of it.

I need to get on the tech sketches and specs for my pattern maker. Today, I’m calling to order the sample cuts of fabrics that I need to test my theory and create my salesman’s samples. Those phone calls really need to happen today. A lot of phone calls need to happen today. Just 2 1/2 months until market, (is that right?) - a couple of weeks to work with patterns, a couple of weeks for prototypes, a couple of weeks for photography and finalizing the styles.

It’s do-able. Plus, I still have to define the number of styles.

Wouldn’t it be so great if that was all I had to do? Instead I have some crazy running around to do today for a special order and other mid-day things that will push off my productive hours. On the plus side, it’s 6:45 in the morning, the kids are waking, and I’ve already checked a number of items off today’s to-do list. We finally got ourselves an alarm clock with a snooze button - and we actually got up like we needed to this morning. And it feels SO good to have the stuff done already. So I can enjoy a few moments with my kids as the sun comes up.

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