Happy New Year!
Well, 2024 was a bit of a strange year for me and the business. I think, on having time to reflect, the slowing down of sales hit me harder than I realised. It definitely left me feeling deflated. But, I did create the expressive birds collection, which I'm really proud of. And while most of the originals are still sat in my drawer, and not many prints of it sold, the calendars did really well. That then got me thinking about finding new ways in 2025 to make my art work harder, and create new ways for people to collect it, that isn't just prints.
So, this year, I'm going to be investing in a whole new range of products not just featuring the expressive birds collection, but also some of my more popular lino prints. You can expect to see coasters, tote bags, bookmarks, greetings cards, tea towels, postcards and maybe some notebooks too! They'll only be very small limited runs of these to begin with as I need to see what will sell, both online and at markets, but I'm really excited! I'm entering 2025 with so much excitement for the business and what will happen this year. I'm excited for the new art I'm going to be creating, and all the new ways you'll be able to collect it.
I also have some other goals, I'd really like to focus on doing more commissions of houses. I really love painting houses and would like the opportunity to do more of that, so watch this space as I'll be launching a limited special offer where you'll be able to snap up a painting of your house at a much reduced price, but spaces will be very limited.
I'm planning on designing some new washi tapes too, I had planned this for last year but time ran away from me. I'm definitely doing it this year, they'll be foiled and sun moon star themed. I'll be ordering more of the woodland animals one too as they always sell well and I'm starting to run low.
Chat on the next update, thanks for reading :)