open a shop

I want to open the kind of store that you go to because it has things you can’t get anywhere else. I love food and books and artsy things. This should be my life.

More prosaic people would call the journal a draft of my business plan, but I’m not prosaic, and I don’t plan to secure financing for the shop. So, I can call it by a name that is alive and vibrant. I’ve done this before. I will start with online and festival sales, and put the profits back into more stock. Eventually, I’ll bring other artisans in as a collective, and we will open a storefront.

This may sit on my list for a few years, because I need copious time to do this properly, and I’m not going to have enough time until I finish what I’ve set out in my current career and move on.

I’m planning on opening a shop in the next 12 months. A real life, can come in and touch things with your grubby little hands shop. It’s exciting, I know.

What I want from you guys is some reccomendations of people who have craft items to sell. Clothes, yarn, hats, scarves, charms, stitch markers, needles, whatever. Pottery, cards, photographs, artwork,if it’s handmade then you name it, we want it.

My email address is: talkative@gmail.com – please reply here or email me if you have any suggestions :) Obviously it’s going to take a fair while to set everything up, but I’d like to get a good list of stockists. Cheers guys!

feel free to include yourself!

Coming soon(ish) to Leicester, The Snug. Excited?

The more I think about this the more I want to do it.