How are the dog days of summer treating you? We’re already halfway through July and it doesn’t seem possible. The summer is flying by!
July is always a time for me to be introspective. With my birthday falling at the end of June, I’m always starting Q3 looking back to what I accomplished in the previous year and reflecting on how I can make the next trip around the sun different/better/more meaningful. This year, I find myself at a crossroads. At the beginning of June, I made the difficult decision to leave my position at the company where I’ve worked for the past 13 years. I’m leaving so many friends and valued colleagues behind as I think about what I would like to do in this next chapter of my life. While I look inside to try to re-kindle that spark I had for my profession, I’m taking advantage of the time to put more energy into my small business. I’ve been having fun creating sticker collections, making new connections, and embracing (albeit reluctantly) social media. If you know me, you can guess that I have been spending a lot of my time with pen and paper, journaling and processing all of the changes. Just because those feelings can be deep, and sometimes painful, doesn’t mean that they can’t be pretty! In fact, making those entries pretty somehow makes them easier to write. It’s too bad the same couldn’t be said for resumes…
I hope you enjoy the rest of your summer. I’m getting my fall on (and hoping it will somehow come faster) with the collections I’m working on for the next release!
Starting now, my release schedule will be set to the second Saturday of the month at 9 AM Eastern. I don’t anticipate the need for any ninja fingers as I print and cut stickers in house…but I may offer a door buster here and there to keep you on your toes. There is an exception to the second Saturday rule and that is the October release. All of the release details are below.
August 10: Two fall themed collections plus the introduction of mini icons. If there’s an icon you want to see I’d love to hear about it!
September 14: Two collections - one with a fall or Halloween theme, the other a Birthday theme in honor of my kiddo’s birthday (which is the release day!)
October 1: Hobbs Sticker Co turns 1! In honor of that occasion, I will be releasing some special collections for planner setups. You might have seen the collection I used I July to set up my Paper Tess Designs Undated A5 - that is the basis for the collections I will be creating. I love to have things coordinate so I am hoping to offer one or two items that are not stickers as part of this release. Stay tuned!
October 19: Functional sticker release to complement the planner set up collections, and the first of the Holiday collections
November 9: 2 more holiday collections
November 29: Black Friday! There will be a sale and some cool new things coming to the shop. Come on down!
December 14: We will round out our first full year of HSC with a Valentines collection and a winter florals collection
