Growing and Expanding

Throughout this journey I continue to value being a female owned handmade in Maine company that designs and creates artfully crafted accessories from recycled materials. When I first started making mittens from recycled wool sweaters, I would trace the mitten pattern onto a sweater and hand cut each pair.  Now I supply a Maine Mill with sweaters and they die cut our mittens. I used to buy all of my sweaters individually from EBay and now I have resources to buy used sweaters in bulk. The buttons for my mittens used to come from my personal button stash, then my mothers and then my mother in law. Now they come from a variety of resources. My first labels were embroidered on a sheet of 20 by a local seamstress and then cut apart with pinking sheers and costs $1.00 a label.  Now I have my labels made in bulk (5,000) and the cost about $.12 each.

It is now time to redesign my hang tag. I want to design a tag that will work well with all of my products. I used to use a full business card. Then I went to a glossy 1/2 business card created by www.Moo.com.   They work great as tags but they have to be hand whole punched, strung and hand tied onto products.

My current project is to redesign my Hang Tag.  A lot of information has to be conveyed in a small space. I am in the process of working with a graphic designer to help me create a new hang tag. I really like the designs he created and now I have to make a choice or modify one of his designs. Then I have to chose the card stock for the tag and find someone to print the tags.