Packing Up and Shipping Out

I had to fill 6 orders for You Deserve Pie posters today, which I had been neglecting for lack of proper shipping supplies. The first one I sent took me about 30 minutes to package flat, covered in cardboard and then stuffed into a bubble mailer. I figured mail tubes would be much easier and they were.

I went to Staples and grabbed 30 bucks worth of packaging material. It was a little excessive, but I've been trying to figure out how to improve the quality of our packaging. I keep thinking that we need to treat our online store as if it were a storefront. The whole deal. We've got fantastic banners (thanks to Tick) our pictures are slowly but surely being updated to be fantastic (thanks to Tick) but our packaging is still a little lack luster.

I got the mailing tubes and some boxes. The boxes and tubes are kind of expensive, but I think it may be worth the extra few bucks to give a more professional first impression.

I took pictures of the tubes before I mailed them off but the SD card was corrupted or something and when I plugged it into my computer it apparently erased everything, so I don't have those pictures, but I did take some pictures of the finished boxes. My goal is to get a package that Sam would flip out over if she saw it in a store. She's a sucker for packages. I'm not sure if there's any connection to her obsession for Trashy Romance Novels.

Sales so Far

We just had a two item sale to Australia, our first to that part of the world. I'm very flattered and decided to update the Sales Map to reflect our sales from the Holiday season to today.


Africa, Asia and Antarctica are the only continents TealTown hasn't touched. That impresses me. I dunno about you, but it impresses me.

A lot.

Although I don't anticipate anyone buying a T-Shirt in Antarctica, maybe I'll put up a long sleeve one just to be sure.

(P.S. Seconds after uploading this map it was promptly outdated, another sale in New Jersey. That makes 6 today)

Morale Boosts and Free Drinks

Sam scored a free 16 pack of these Cinnabon coffee drinks today. They are good, really good and only 190 calories each - what a deal!

We were also featured in another Treasury and that was nice, I always enjoy seeing that people enjoy the stuff we make as much as I do. It was a Valentine's Day treasury and included our You Deserve Pie poster. This inspired us to take some shots of the YDP shirt and try to get them listed tonight.

I also created a custom screen for RainwolfStudios, one of the Red Roomers I've come to know over the past few months. It took longer than I had expected but turned out fantastically, probably one of the best screens I've burned to date. I sent that out today along with the poster (I figured out how to best package it) and a book I sold on Half.com - a fantastic place to buy and sell text books. Nothing like getting a $180 textbook for 75 cents. True story, I actually saved over 179 dollars on one book*

Basically, despite the cold, the amount of reading I'm doing and the stress of trying to keep my new favorite toy, Google Calendar, updated, I'm having a good week and my morale is shooting up. Or maybe I'm just on a pizza high, either way I'll take it. Sales are up, which isn't hard considering they were at zero last week, spirits are up. Finally getting a new listing up. Up, up, up. Movin on up, to the East Side.


*Actual results may vary