So the last post I made on June 30th...I was talking about how I was hoping to be done with the "holiday every day" sticker sheet set by July 1st but it was taking a little longer. Yeah well...I just finished designing them today. :P Tomorrow I plan to print, cut, and photograph them so I can get them listed. I really enjoy them, though. I like the idea...hopefully others will like them too. :)
My custom name label sticker sheets are selling in full swing again. The total number of these sticker sheets that I'd sold between June and September of last year was 48. So far I've already sold 41 of these sticker sheets since June. And I just noticed today that it has a bestseller badge on it. That's always nice to see. :)
I've been pretty busy with orders lately. Yesterday I dropped off 31 orders at the post office...12 orders for CandiMakerPlanners and then another 19 orders for CandiMakerStickers. My previous record for most orders to go out in one day was 26 on December 4, 2024. Speaking of records, I tied my record for number of orders in one day on Sunday...13 orders in one day (from all my shops). And then yesterday I had another 12 orders and 11 orders today. I also surpassed my previous number of orders in one week for 2025 last week (Sunday to Saturday) with 46 orders. My overall record is 57 orders during the first week of December 2024. Hopefully this momentum continues and I'll have an even better December this year. In my CMS shop, I'm up 54% for orders compared to this time last year and my revenue is also up 98%. A lot of my large revenue increase is related to selling a lot more magnets...which are a higher priced item in my shop. And then so far this year in my CMP shop, my orders are up 163% and my revenue is up 144%. I really like seeing all the progress.
I'm really glad I have the
Romeo now because it makes sticker sheets SO much easier. I was also able to find some matte 11x17 pages so I can cut 4 sheets at a time, which helps a lot! Making sticker sheets with my Cricut Maker 3 was so frustrating because I couldn't get consistent cuts. Even with the same settings and materials, sometimes it would be okay, but then it would frequently cut too deep into the sheet. It was frustrating and I wasted so much material just trying to print one sticker sheet. It was irritating enough that I almost thought about not selling sticker sheets at all. Now...I have consistent cuts and can just breeze through making 4 sticker sheets at a time. It has me excited about making sticker sheets again.
One of my biggest problems is having so many ideas and not enough time to get to them all as fast as I want to. :P I'm going to take a little break from new work projects for a little bit now, though. The holiday every day sticker sheets too a long time to finish and I wasn't taking breaks during the weekend...so I want to relax for just a little bit before I jump into designing more products again.
In other news, Bozley is doing so much better after getting fixed. He's actually eating all his food everyday! That's something that has been so difficult ever since he was a puppy. We kept having to try different foods, fresh foods, dehydrated foods...even if he liked something, he'd only like it for a few days and then it was back to him just pushing the food around with his nose. I mean...he'd even turn his nose up at people food we tried to give him as treats...like cheese, fruits, and vegetables.
Once we brought Nova home, Bozley started actually eating the regular dog food (we use Purina Pro Plan Sensitive Skin and Stomach because it doesn't have chicken, which they're allergic to) as long as I would add water to it and heat it up a few seconds in the microwave. But even then...we'd have to sit there and coax him to eat it and it'd take forever. He'd still spend most of the time pushing it around with his nose and a lot of times he wouldn't even finish it at all. Now it doesn't take quite as long for him to eat and he's actually been eating all of it everyday! I can also tell he's finally gaining weight and looking so healthy. :)
I started watching a new show while I was working this past weekend...I finished the available episodes tonight (there are only 3 seasons with 8 episodes each season, so it didn't take too long). It's called Dark Winds on AMC. I'd found it because it has one of the actresses from Burden of Truth in it (Johnny and I just finished watching that show together last week). And the main lead is actually the guy who played Cloud Dancing's son in Dr Quinn Medicine Woman (I loved that show when I was a kid). I liked the first two seasons of Dark Winds a lot better than the third, but it was still pretty good. I'm generally not a super huge fan of time-period shows (this one is set in the 70s), but every once in awhile I find one I like.
Well...I better get back to work. I want to get all my orders ready before I go to bed so I can print and cut them tomorrow.