To a New Year and Trying New Things

To A New Year and Trying New Things

I don't know about the rest of you, but 2015 has been a whopper of a year. So many ups and downs, personal and professional triumphs. I'm interested in seeing what 2016 has in store.

In 2015, my goal for Butterfly Dark was to become a legitimized business. In Indiana, you don't have to have a business license, but be registered as a business. Butterfly Dark Creations was registered as an LLC in September. In addition I opened a bank account and a credit card for the business. Two things I NEVER thought would happen.

Another goal was to participate in a craft fair. We ended up participating in 3 at the end of the year. I had never participated in a craft fair and I'm still learning the ins and outs of running a business, but what better way to learn from experience, so we hit the ground running. In all honesty I was disappointed in the monetary outcome, but I learned so much, and we aren't giving up. We've seen what we're doing wrong, what we could improve on and going from there. And I do mean "We" I have a partner now. My mom is my crafting partner in crime. Her idea for all in one tunics was genius!

Our Booth at the Center Grove Craft Fair

All in One Tunics. This is just one of the HUNDREDS of ways to wear them

Our customized ornaments for 2015

We branched out in photography a little more. I had some clients with an unusual request, something I'm not quite used to, but we made it work.

So for 2016?

Butterfly Dark Creations will be blogging more, for sure. Hopefully once a week, bringing you a new tutorial every month if we can.

   We are looking to reopen the Etsy shop, hopefully in the spring.


We want to enter more fairs, starting in May. We're already taking the steps to build up inventory in a new direction. We're keeping the tunics, and the photography, but taking our jewelry in a steampunk direction, and adding clothing to the inventory.

One of my favorite products that we will continue to sell. Handcrafted hair accessories, this one, made for fall, is my favorite.
 

Our tree of life necklaces, colors can be different.
 

We're hoping to build our social media presence. Right now, we're looking at Instagram, twitter and Pinterest, in addition to our Facebook page, which will be more active, and hoping to offer more to our followers.

We like to keep things simple. These seem like achievable goals to us. We don't want to promise something that seems out of reach. Hopefully we can develop a routine and achieve these goals.

So what are your goals for the New Year? Are you ready?

Love Music and Feathers!