pov: a 23 y/o business owner ✿ designing a new collection & making my first plushie! #studiovlog
Summary
TLDRIn this engaging vlog, artist and small business owner Tammy shares her journey to relaunch her art shop with a new business model. Transitioning from made-to-order to made-to-stock, she plans a limited drop of pre-made items and incorporates outsourced manufactured goods she designs, like plushies and lamps. Tammy uses Milanote for project organization, showcasing her creative process, from sketching new characters to sculpting and pottery. She candidly discusses the challenges of self-employment, emphasizing self-care and the importance of process over perfection. The vlog offers a behind-the-scenes look at her work-life balance, manufacturing inquiries, and陶designs, ending with her first plushy sample order and a peek at her Notability sticker pack project.
Takeaways
- 🎨 Tammy is an artist who runs a small art shop that was closed for a few months but is now preparing to reopen.
- 🛍️ She is changing her business model from made-to-order to made-to-stock, with a limited drop of pre-made items ready to ship.
- 🔄 Tammy plans to include more outsourced manufactured items that she designs, such as plushies, lamps, and stationery, alongside her handmade crafts.
- 📋 She uses Milanote to organize her shop launch, which helps her visually plan and track her tasks and ideas.
- 🎨 Tammy is working on new character designs for her upcoming launch, including a bunny cake and a peach Maxine sculpture.
- 🍑 The peach Maxine sculpture is made from translucent clay to give it a jelly and glass-like appearance, which is a new technique for her.
- 🥚 Tammy emphasizes the importance of self-care for self-employed individuals, like taking breaks and eating well to avoid burnout.
- 💻 She is also exploring Alibaba for manufacturing plushies and other items, which is a new and challenging step in her business expansion.
- 🛠️ Tammy discusses the sampling process with manufacturers, which involves multiple rounds of feedback and adjustments, and can be costly.
- 🍲 She mentions the importance of taking care of oneself while working from home and the benefits of self-employment, such as getting more sleep and listening to her body's needs.
- 🖌️ Tammy is working on a pottery collection and a sticker pack for Notability, showing her versatility as an artist and her involvement in various creative projects.
Q & A
What is the name of the channel owner and what does she do?
-The name of the channel owner is Tammy, and she is an artist who runs a small Art Shop.
Why has Tammy's Art Shop been closed for a couple of months?
-Tammy's Art Shop has been closed because she has been taking a break, but she is now ready to open it again.
What major changes is Tammy planning to implement in her business model?
-Tammy is changing her business model from made-to-order to made-to-stock and she plans to include more outsourced manufactured items that she designs.
What is the tool Tammy is using to organize her May shop launch?
-Tammy is using Milanote to organize her May shop launch.
What is the purpose of the mood board in the center of Tammy's Milanote board?
-The mood board in the center represents the vibe Tammy wants for her shop launch, aiming for a summery, fresh Farmers Market feel.
What is the significance of the 2024 vision board for Tammy?
-The 2024 vision board helps Tammy stay grounded and reminds her of the goals she set for herself for the year.
What is the first task Tammy focuses on for creating her new products?
-The first task Tammy focuses on is making rough sketches of her new characters to determine what she wants to release next month.
What materials does Tammy plan to use for her peach Maxine and strawberry cake sculptures?
-Tammy plans to use translucent clay for the peach Maxine and strawberry cake sculptures and shade them with chalk pastels.
What is the process like for Tammy when working with manufacturers on Alibaba?
-The process involves submitting a design, waiting for a sample to be made and shipped, which costs around $100 per sample. If changes are needed, additional samples and costs are incurred.
What is Tammy's experience with ceramics compared to polymer clay?
-Ceramics is a different game from polymer clay because with polymer clay, Tammy knows exactly what it will look like before baking, whereas ceramics involve a longer process and more uncertainty.
What is the issue Tammy found with the ceramics she picked up?
-Tammy found glazing issues on the rim of some of her ceramics, which could affect their food safety.
What is the task Tammy is doing for Notability as their Ambassador?
-Tammy is designing a sticker pack for Notability for the back-to-school season, including academic and lifestyle stickers.
How does Tammy feel about her self-employment and its impact on her life?
-Tammy feels that self-employment has taught her to love herself more, allowing her to get more sleep, exercise, and listen to her body to avoid burnout.
Outlines
🎨 Art Shop Reopening and Business Model Change
Tammy, the artist and owner of a small Art Shop, is reopening her business after a few months of break. She introduces her channel and shares her plans for a new launch that will differ significantly from her previous ones. Tammy explains her shift from a made-to-order business model to a made-to-stock model, which involves pre-making items for a limited drop. Additionally, she plans to include more outsourced manufactured items that she designs, such as plushies and lamps, while still hand-making items like polymer clay creations and ceramics. Tammy uses Milanote to organize her shop launch, which she finds visually pleasing and helpful for keeping track of tasks and ideas. She also discusses her vision board for 2024 and her excitement about the new direction of her business.
🛍️ Expanding Product Range with Outsourced Manufacturing
Tammy dives into the details of her new business direction, focusing on the inclusion of outsourced manufactured items in her product range. She shares her experience of designing and planning to outsource plushies and other items, which has been a long-term goal for her. Tammy discusses the process of working with manufacturers, which includes submitting inquiries and dealing with the costs and time involved in creating samples. Despite the challenges and uncertainties, she remains excited and optimistic about expanding her product offerings and the potential for growth in her business.
🤹♀️ Balancing Self-Employment with Self-Care
The paragraph highlights Tammy's journey as a self-employed individual, emphasizing the importance of self-care and work-life balance. She talks about the challenges of separating work from personal life when working from home and the need to intentionally set aside time for meals, breaks, and exercise. Tammy reflects on how being self-employed has taught her to love herself more by listening to her body and taking care of her physical and mental well-being. She also shares her experience of dealing with Alibaba for manufacturing, the time differences, and the process of ordering her first plushy sample.
🎨 Artistic Process and Overcoming Challenges
Tammy shares her experiences and insights from her artistic process, particularly focusing on the challenges and lessons learned from working with ceramics and polymer clay. She discusses the issues she encountered with glazing in her pottery and the differences between working with ceramics and polymer clay. Tammy emphasizes the importance of patience and the understanding that good things take time. She also talks about her work as a Notability Ambassador, her first illustration client work, and her plans to design a sticker pack for the back-to-school season.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Art Shop
💡Made to Order vs. Made to Stock
💡Outsourced Manufactured Items
💡Polymer Clay
💡Ceramics
💡Milanote
💡Vision Board
💡Plushies
💡Alibaba
💡Self-Employed
💡Notability
Highlights
Tammy, an artist and small business owner, is reopening her art shop after a break.
She plans to change her business model from made-to-order to made-to-stock for her upcoming launch.
Tammy will introduce more outsourced manufactured items that she designs, such as plushies and lamps.
She continues to hand-make items like polymer clay creations and ceramics.
Tammy uses Milanote to organize her May shop launch, which she also used for previous launches.
She describes her shop's vibe as summery and compares it to a fresh Farmer's Market.
Tammy maintains a 2024 vision board to stay focused on her annual goals.
She discusses the process of sketching and sculpting new characters for her shop.
Tammy's idea for 'bunny cakes' involves creating layered fruit cake designs.
She sculpts a 'Peach Maxine' using translucent clay and chalk pastels for a realistic look.
Tammy emphasizes the importance of self-care while working from home and being self-employed.
She shares her experience of ordering her first plushy sample from Alibaba.
Tammy discusses the challenges and costs associated with the manufacturing sampling process.
She explores different manufacturers and communicates her fabric choices for a plushy project.
Tammy reflects on the patience required in the ceramics process and the lessons learned from it.
She shows her pottery pieces, discussing the glazing issues and food safety concerns.
Tammy works on client tasks, including editing a sponsorship and creating illustrations for Notability.
She shares sketches for a sticker pack designed for Notability's back-to-school season.
Transcripts
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hi welcome back to my channel if you
don't know me my name is Tammy and I run
a small business I'm an artist so I run
my little Art Shop and it's actually
been closed for a couple months now I've
been taking a little bit of a break but
now I'm finally ready to open my shop
again again and I want to take you guys
along with me I got my coffee so let's
get
started welcome to my studio this
upcoming launch is going to be very very
different from what I've done before I
talked a lot about this in my previous
video but basically I'm changing two
major things first of all is my business
model I'm changing from everything made
to order to everything made to stock so
this launch is going to be a limited
drop of things that I'm pre- making that
are going to be ready to ship the second
biggest thing that I'm changing is that
I'm going to start including a lot more
outsourced manufactured items that I'm
designing this has been a huge goal of
mine forever is to design things that I
simply can't make by hand things like
plushies lamps stationer of course I'm
still going to hand make a lot of things
like my polymer clay stuff and I have a
ton of ceramics that are in the Kiln as
we speak so those pieces are going to be
in my upcoming launch as well I feel
like I've just been yapping a lot but in
case you're a visual learner like me I'm
going to show you exactly what I've
planned out I'm currently using milanote
to organize my May shop launch you may
recognize milanote all the way back in
January I used them for my first shop
launch of the year since then I've used
them to plan on my Chinese New Year
launch and I've still been using them I
love how everything is organized but
still like very visually pleasing so on
the left I have all the tasks that I
need to do like organize my studio start
sketching my new characters I also
really love having a little mood board
in the center this is sort of the vibe I
want for my shop launch I want it to be
very summary I wanted to elicit feelings
of like a fresh Farmers Market I also
have these little sub boards here I
always like to keep my 2024 vision board
handy because it helps keep me grounded
it helps remind me of the goals that I
set out for myself this year it's also
nice to see that I've already done some
of these things like I've already
started doing Ceramics I've already made
glass cups and now I'm on to plushies
speaking of plushies I also have my
plushy project board here as well this
is where I plan on putting all my little
ideas and my notes from my manufacturer
and also this is where I'm going to keep
track of all the expenses I made this
whole board using the project plan
template whether you're a filmmaker or
writer or just creative person in
general mote has a template for every
type of project and when you're ready to
share your work you can invite your
friends or colleagues or clients to work
with you on the board like when I was
designing my coet dragon cups I actually
used milanote to make the mood board and
I just sent it to my friend Ally so she
could start designing milanote is free
with no time limit so if you want to try
it out click on the link in my
description and start your next creative
project and thank you milanote for
sponsoring this
video I think the most important thing
is to start making these new characters
I need to sketch them out and determine
exactly what I want to release next
month
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fouret on the stripes in the AL
Highway out there in the open okay so
I'm done with my rough sketches that
didn't take long at all I'm really
excited to just start sculpting these my
idea for the bunny cakes is that I'm
going to do something similar to the
bunny pancakes but make them like a
layered fruit cake one's going to be
strawberry and another's going to be
blueberry and of course Peach Maxine has
been highly requested so I'm going to
make her as
well I got cold you know it's been a
while since I've sculpted because I have
long nails now we'll see if I can sculpt
with them um I'm going to start with a
peach Maxine I think this will be a good
warmup because I've made Maxine the
Goldfish like thousands of times by now
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so I've got the body all sculpted
because it's just a tester I'm not
worried about dust or dirt or anything
and now I'm going to make the peach I
want the peach to look really jelly and
glass-like so instead of using normal
clay I'm going to use translucent clay
for the peach as well and then I'm going
to shade it with chalk pastels is that a
good size maybe a little bigger anyone's
wondering I use used the artist Loft
chalk pastels let me actually look at a
picture of a peach I really like these
ones they're like more pinkish we're
going to model it after those special
Japanese
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peaches call I die for you
tell a thousand lies For You Love You
Like thece Love You inow motion anything
it takes to make you stay but I can't
rely on you doesn't matter what I do you
say you
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need hello so it's been a couple hours I
finished making the peach Maxine she's
pretty much good to go I also just
finished making this strawberry cake I'm
not sure I'm in love with her but I
think I'm getting close there are just a
few things I need to change but
otherwise I think it's going to be
really really cute I ended up using
translucent clay for the strawberries as
well so I think when we bake it it'll
look like really clear and almost like
Tong Hulu I think I'm going to change
the whipped cream shape to just normal
circles because I think they'll be a lot
cuter but yeah it's 1:00 now I think I'm
going to switch gears I just need some
fresh air and I need a breather
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I didn't realize how hungry I was and
maybe that's why I was so tired I love
chili oil eggs so much if you haven't
tried it yet you have to it's my comfort
food seriously I could eat chili oil on
eggs every single day I think that was
so yummy if there's anything I'll say
about being self employed or working at
home is that you have to intentionally
set aside time to take care of yourself
like eat lunch take a break go for a
walk for some reason it can be so hard
to just take a break and you hear this
about working at home it's hard to
separate work from yourself but I will
say that being self-employed has also
taught me how to love myself more than
anything else like I get more sleep than
I ever have before I make sure I
exercise when I'm hungry I make sure to
eat it's still a work in progress but I
think I am getting better at just
listening to my body so that I don't get
burnt out and so I can keep creating
every single day say hi to the Vlog
Winnie she's so
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small I just had to put some eye drops
in because I spent the better half of an
hour on alibaba.com Alibaba is where
everyone gets their stuff man
manfactured whether it's plushies
lanyards tote bags Alibaba is where you
can find manufacturers for those types
of things and oh my gosh they all just
look so sketchy and bad and this is not
even like a xenophobia type of thing
this is just like I don't think these
fit any of the style that I'm going for
with my plushies I know I just have to
go for it and submit an inquiry I've
already submitted two different
inquiries the way this works is like you
send a picture of your design and then
they'll make a sample and they'll ship
it to you and that one sample is like
$100 and if the sample turns out ugly
you have to tell them what you want to
edit and then pay another $100 for
another sample and it keeps going on and
on like that I've heard so many horror
stories of this sampling process going
on and on and on I'm just like that is
just the way things are that's just the
process of manufacturing things I really
really need to change my mindset around
this and just be excited about the fact
that I'm even doing this in the first
place um I am excited I'm happy this is
something that I've been working towards
and I finally have like the budget and
time to do so now so yeah one day we'll
have a beautiful maxing the Goldfish
plush probably not in May but hopefully
this year for
sure you guys I just ordered my first
plushy sample ever it is 8:07 so that
process took me like 4 5 hours most of
it was waiting just because the time
difference between here and China is so
vast like it's 8:00 p.m. here and it's
10:00 a.m. over there but yeah you guys
I'm so excited I've never been so
excited to spend so much money the
sample itself did cost $100 plus
shipping which was $30 and then tax so
all that together was like $140 and now
it's just another waiting game in the
meantime I should probably look at other
manufacturers in case this one doesn't
work out and just start designing other
things too there's still lots for me to
do I just have to be patient now even if
this initial sample isn't good it
probably won't be that's okay too it's
all about the process with this type of
work okay I didn't go to yoga this
morning so I should work out
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now hi friends it's 10:37 we got back
from working out I'm talking to a
different manufacturer now I have a
feeling that this one might be better
because they sent me like all these
different swatches of their Fabrics so I
just sort of went on my iPad real quick
and added the Swatch colors that I
wanted for my plushy I don't know if you
can tell but the colors on my screen are
so different from the colors on my
computer screen and I can only imagine
how different it is on their screen so
writing out the color swatches really
helps but I have a much better feeling
about this manufacturer we'll see though
they're a lot more expensive okay I
think I'm finally done with work for the
night I'll see you guys tomorrow
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I could sit around and wait all
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day you lazy on my mind
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like a candle I just burn
away all we really have is
time hi so it is 5:00 now the day just
flew by honestly we just did a ton of
errands I did some work at the coffee
shop and also met up with a friend so I
was just so socially drained by the end
of it I just like had to take a nap now
now I'm awake I wanted to give you guys
a closer look at the pottery that we
picked up today here they are and all
their Glory the first design is this
front- facing Maxine on both sides um I
love this mug so much I think this one
is like my favorite but unfortunately
there were like glazing issues along the
rim I don't know if you can see that but
basically like Ceramics is only food
safe once it's covered in glaze and I'm
just afraid that because the rim isn't
completely covered it won't be like safe
to drink out of it's only this little
section of the rim though so I might
keep it for myself and just drink out of
the other side of the mug I also made
this design I think I might call this
the doodle mug because it's just my
freehand Doodles I love the star and the
little cherries I also made these Little
Flower cups I feel like this would be
such a cute little set this is my
peekaboo flower design where the outside
is plain but the inside has the little
flowers but these also have glazing
issues especially this one it's
basically the entire Rim that's unglazed
so I don't know if I can refire this if
you know anything about Ceramics please
comment down below like just look how
rough that is that's so sad but it's
okay Ceramics is such a different game
from polymer clay because polymer clay I
know exactly what it's going to look
like well before I bake it and even just
baking it's only like a 30-minute
process these took me like a month to
make it's just like my plushy project
it's all about the process and good
things take time so I guess that is the
big lesson that we're taking away this
week for the rest of the day I'm just
going to be working on some client work
I have to edit a sponsorship integration
and I also have to do some illustrations
for notability so I should probably get
to
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it it's so dark now I finished one of
the tasks of tonight and I'm just taking
a little break I'm watching my old
YouTube videos and they make me so
emotional like I miss living at home
with my parents so much has changed even
just within the past one or 2 years and
I don't know it's like so weird cuz I'm
watching myself my past self and it's
almost as if I'm a total stranger
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[Applause]
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anyway Mr uncomfy is at his parents
house so I'm having left over chip pole
for
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dinner it's 10:33 I want to show you
guys the sketches I did real fast for
notability if you didn't know I'm a
notability Ambassador and notability is
like the all-in-one app that I use for
note taking studying even sketching they
so kindly asked me to design a sticker
pack for them for back to school season
so this was my first like illustration
client work ever I try to include a
variety of academic and lifestyle
stickers that would be useful for like a
note taking spread or even a planner
spread so I have a lot of things like
important presentation due date exam
these are just the rough sketches
they're not colored yet but I went ahead
and emailed them the rough sketches so
they could give me feedback but yeah if
you are interested in notability or if
you use it I have a code you can use
Tammy and B to receive 50% off your
first year or you could just try it for
free but anyway these past couple days
have been so good I did some sculpting I
did some designing and I did some
drawing so I think I'll end the Vlog
with that thank you so much for watching
and I'll see you next week bye
Dusty red on her shoulder I was cleaning
her
shoe when it clicked on the TR over in
the Bright Morning
Dew we brush and we braided Dandy lons
and
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