Launching my very first products!

WARNING: HONEST CONTENT AHEAD...

Launching my first 8 products at the very end of this year was the icing on the cake for me (and let me tell you it is very thin icing...). It may not seem like a big deal to some people or even to me at first, trust me it took a while to convince myself that this was a big deal. For as long as I can remember I wanted to be a business owner, I even remember learning the term entrepreneur in my high school business class and I immediately knew that was the path I wanted to go on, it was like love at first learn lol. And I am excited to share that I am fully committing to this idea that I have had for as long as I can remember, and this is just the beginning to an extremely exciting journey that I hope you in on the ride for.

Designer & Owner of nicolee.designs

I t 's r e a l l y e a s y t o d r e a m.

I officially started nicolee.designs in October of 2017, this was the original logo that you can see on the right. I know it's rough...but it was a dream that I had as a teenager to become some kind of fashion designer/entrepreneur/boutique owner all the things you can image that had to do with owning and designing I wanted to do it. As a young girl its really easy to dream, and then you become an adult and life takes many turns, sometimes you can't even keep up with how bad the roads are, obstacles are thrown at you and sometimes you even crash and you end up having to walk again or reach out for help. Fears build, insecurities build, dreams become...well just that, dreams. I never gave up on it but I just set it on the sidelines waiting for myself to realize whatever it was that I needed to realize to put an end to the thoughts I pretended I didn't have. (If you want to learn more about how we started see the blog titled 'How do you define design?')

So yeah, at first I thought- "well I'm only selling 8 products and if it sells out that just because I only made a little" or "if they don't sell at all that's fine because ill just try something else." But when I started getting interaction and encouragement from people and when they sold out in just 2 days it really opened my eyes.

N o m i s t a k e s & N o b a c k i n g d o w n.

On Sunday, December 5th 2021, I finally had enough. I had enough of my doubts, enough of "its just a childhood dream", "you need a REAL job and you need to make REAL money". I got up, I mapped out a plan, went to the store with money I borrowed from family, came home worked 10 consecutive hours over the course of 2 days JUST SEWING. I didn't eat during those 10 hours because I was so focused I didn't realize 10 hours had gone by. I worked through the night from dawn to dusk because that is what my schedule was at the time. After I completed the scrunchies I had to make all the bows and I decided I wanted to launch these on December 10th. So I would have 2 days to finish the products, create tag for them, order packaging, figure out shipping costs, take product photos, edit & photoshop product photos, and create marketing material for the products when they are up and probably little tedious steps in-between. I had no room for mistakes, and no room to back down. It was a pretty silly thing to spontaneously come out with 27 scrunchies in packs of 8 in 5 days with no prior marketing....... but the overall takeaway for me is that I did it and I am going to keep on trying, even it it does fail over and over again.

I s t h e r e s u c h t h i n g a s t o o m u c h encouragement ?

For YEARS I've been telling people of this dream of mine, well many dreams of mine, and I've listened to people over and over and over again tell me - "I can see that vision for you", "I think you would be really great at that", "don't give up on it because if anyone can do it you can", or "I believe that you will be famous one day", "I KNOW you will be successful someday, just don't forget about me when you do". I have listened to statements like this for years and A LOT of people have believed in me. I'm not just saying that to brag, but when you hear people talk about you in this way for a long time it feels like a lot of pressure. I think apart of me didn't want to let those people down but most importantly I didn't want to let myself down. Little did I realize not acting on it at all would be the biggest let down.... I used to do door to door sales in Tennessee and one of the biggest things I took back from that is how so many strangers, after sitting down with them for even just 20 mins, believed in me too...I wanted to cry evetime I heard someone tell me I was good enough.

I just had to start believing in myself.

This brand, business, blog, and me as a designer, have so much growing to do, so much to accomplish and I cant wait for you guys to get annoyed of me because of how often we will be seeing each other on social media...or I guess how much you will be seeing me on social media, if you can keep up haha. I would love to get into our goals for the new year and talk about what we are already planning and projects I am thinking of BUT maybe ill put that in a new years blog!

Stay tuned I guess ;)

Thank you guys so much for joining me and sharing your love for fashion with me! Don't forget, you can always message me on my social media platforms, watch my YouTube channel sewing videos and much more just click the links below! Do what you need to do to find joy in your life. I love you all!
God bless you and have a great week! I will see you next time!. CIAO 

X o X o,

Nicolee Designs

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