Well I'm slowly but surely adding products to the new Kitten Vintage Square Mini-Site.The Denim Edit will be live today and I've learnt so much along the way. I've still got some annoying things I don't seem to be able to change - quirks of using the free version of square's web hosting (that annoying red Low Stock alert). As these sites are often created by an IT professional in an office somewhere, they don't have any idea of the end consumer trying to utilise them. One of the terribly time-consuming things about selling vintage online is that we're all here trying to sell individual pieces. We can't sell one in every colour, one in every size or "great this is...
Well it's time for my annual blog post! I always was a terrible diary keeper, but I have missed blogging a little recently so you never know I might fire it up again...March already and I still feel like the year is just getting started.
Well here you are on my blog / website & shopify store but I confess selling online on my own website is becoming harder than ever. I love my website with Shopify - it's easy to navigate, create collections and use as a master inventory but financially, it's just not paying off! With raising costs and a fluctuating exchange rate, paying for a US based shopify store means my costs have raised significantly from around $30 Aud to nearly $70 a month.This year I've just returned from a UK trip and am saving to go back again in the summer (Aussie winter) so I'm all about wealth creation and preservation to fund this second trip so these costs seem unjustified.Shopify always used...
Well what a year 2023 was! Running a small business is a challenge at the best of times but this year has really taken me to the limits.The last few years I've been trying to get on-top of my finances post-covid, after 5 long years of not being able & not having the money or health to travel, 2023 was the year I found myself scrambling for more work and more money to fund a trip back to the UK.Kitten Vintage is just one of my side-hustles - alongside parenting / working as a marketing assistant and some teaching at Sydney Creative. Adding more events into already packed life is something of a challenge but 2023 saw me adding Grassroots, Fashion Thrift Society and...
There's been a flurry of new stories around like this piece on ABC News about Fast Fashion swamping opshops and I have to say I am feeling a little drowned out by kmart t-shirts in my weekly visits. Ok, so I go in opshops. I go in a lot of opshops. Charity shops, flea markets, vintage fairs, garage sales and jumble sales, I've even been known to rummage through bags left out for council collection. I've been all over the world with a blue Ikea bag filled full of thrifted treasures so lets just say I can hunt down a vintage piece from a great distance.Since moving to Sydney 9 years ago I've ventured all over the city in pursuit of the best...
