The Green Path
I’m reminded of all of this today as I take a first step with this announcement: The Kat Eye Studio Shop is open! I’ve opened a shop on RedBubble, where I’ve made selected work available for order as greeting cards, postcards and quality prints of various types and sizes. Whether you would like a matted or framed print for your wall, or a card to connect with a friend through the mail, you can find it here. Just in time to order a few holiday gifts!
Opening the shop is one of those big “first steps.” It’s been on my list of things to do since moving back to the US, but there was so much else I had to get done first:
Start up my classes. Check.
Complete the postcard swap. Check.
Move to a new website. Check.
Figure out how to sell my work. Today I can check that off as well.
As excited as I am for this step, I am nervous too. As with any new venture like this, it brings up all sorts of uncomfortable emotions. Fears that whisper “who do I think I am” in my head. But I’m pushing through, taking the step I don’t want to take, by actually announcing the shop opening here on the blog rather than letting it quietly sit on my site to be discovered. That’s what I really wanted to do this morning – talk about anything and everything else here and hope the shop just gets “discovered.” But I’ve learned over time that things don’t work so well that way…
I hope that you will take a moment to visit the new Kat Eye Studio shop. Let me know if there are any images that you would like to see added. I’ll be working on adding more of my favorites over time, but for today… A first step is enough.
Congratulations Kat, and thank you so much for sharing your exciting news with us at The Creative Exchange.
Sending you wishes for a beautiful Thanksgiving!
lisa.
Congratulations, Kat! I am in awe of all that you have accomplished this year. You’ve overcome your fears, taken risks, AND look where you are! Sit back and enjoy. I am off to check out your shop. Have a creative and happy week!
Congratulations, Kat! It has been amazing to watch you set and achieve such amazing goals! Can’t wait to see what goals you set for next year!
Hi Kat,
Congrats to you and all you’ve accomplished this year!!! I look forward to checking out your shop! A place to sell my work is one of my next steps, too.
Thanks for stopping by. I’ve been enjoying experimenting with a couple different visions, or versions, of reality in my photography. Besides the immediacy, I’ve also been thrilled with the range of vision that is possible with photography. Once one is shooting in manual mode, there are no limits – only your imagination, as they say!
Happy Thanksgiving to you!
Wow! Huge congratulations, you’ve achieved so much, what an exciting new step.
Congratulations on your shop opening, Kat! You are really amazing and I absolutely admire how you are handling everything! Now I’ll hop over to have a look at your shop! 🙂
Congratulations – I am so excited for you, and I can’t wait to have a piece of your work on my wall.
Kat,
I have nothing but admiration for you and your latest venture. I know that as with everything that you do, the launch of your store will be done from your heart. You deserve every success.
Bravo! Will head right over there now!
you are one busy lady! congrats!
Well done and well said!! Congratulations on taking the plunge and best wishes for success. You are such an inspiration!
Thanks Jessica, and to all of you who have commented supporting me. I so appreciate your ongoing encouragement!
congratulations on your shop, you’ve chosen some lovely images to offer and I like the style of it.
You might want to put a copyright symbol on or your signature when you upload pictures onto the site. Someone innocently said to me ‘ I’ve got one of your photographs as my screensaver, I right clicked it off your website ”
I didn’t mind too much as it was someone close to me but I wondered how many other people had saved my images onto their computers rather than buying them.
It does marr the look of the image a little but I doubt anyone would print off and frame a picture with it on. Other than that some images on the internet wont let you right click and save, I’m not sure how that works but it seems a good solution.
Hope you make some sales soon – good luck!
Just purchased a postcard – very easy, smooth transaction! :o)
Yay! Thank you so much Helen!
Congratulation & Good Luck on your business. I totally understand how you feel – I’ve been making some notes, doing some research about a possible jump into a photography business – very daunting.
Thanks Sherry! Take little steps, you can do it!