Patton
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Since my wife became a stay-at-home mom a couple of years ago she has tried to come up with a small, home based business to make mad money.
Last month, the day I paid the shop in Houston what I owed them for Healey work, she asked if she could "upgrade" her sewing machine to a more modern model. (great timing) The next thing I knew, we were looking at websites with $2K+ machines. After some due diligence and some shopping, we bought her a machine (less $ than that) that can not only sew but can do all kinds of embroidery.
Over the last few weeks she has been doing work for friends making dresses and embroidering and has put a couple of things on Craigslist. My dad asked her to make him some Airstream stuff, so she bought the hardware/software combo to scan graphics in the computer and embroider it on shirts. That came out really nice.
Right now she is mom/daughter focused as to what she is making but asked me about LBC stuff. I told her that I would think about it, but the only thing I could thing of would be items with either custom colors to match (closely as possible) the desired car, or the ability to put model numbers or owner names along with the car or marque's logo. She is going to make me an Austin-Healeys.com shirt using my logo.
Is there any demand for small batch, custom LBC stuff? Anything other than shirts (hats need an adapter she doesn't have)? What would be reasonable to tell her she could ask for stuff like this?
You can see her website (another donation from her good husband /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif ) to see what she can do, but there is no LBC stuff on there. www.meliascloset.com
Thanks
Patton
Last month, the day I paid the shop in Houston what I owed them for Healey work, she asked if she could "upgrade" her sewing machine to a more modern model. (great timing) The next thing I knew, we were looking at websites with $2K+ machines. After some due diligence and some shopping, we bought her a machine (less $ than that) that can not only sew but can do all kinds of embroidery.
Over the last few weeks she has been doing work for friends making dresses and embroidering and has put a couple of things on Craigslist. My dad asked her to make him some Airstream stuff, so she bought the hardware/software combo to scan graphics in the computer and embroider it on shirts. That came out really nice.
Right now she is mom/daughter focused as to what she is making but asked me about LBC stuff. I told her that I would think about it, but the only thing I could thing of would be items with either custom colors to match (closely as possible) the desired car, or the ability to put model numbers or owner names along with the car or marque's logo. She is going to make me an Austin-Healeys.com shirt using my logo.
Is there any demand for small batch, custom LBC stuff? Anything other than shirts (hats need an adapter she doesn't have)? What would be reasonable to tell her she could ask for stuff like this?
You can see her website (another donation from her good husband /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif ) to see what she can do, but there is no LBC stuff on there. www.meliascloset.com
Thanks
Patton