Stopping By & Update

Hope all are keeping cool!

The "limited time" "Buy 3 Shirts, Get 1 Free" CafePress promotion is over now.

I have been hard at work re-organizing my CafePress premium stores, as you may notice, also adding new graphics and merch. Been busy putting together Back-to-School Features as well (which I had better complete RSN!).

I've been in the process of marking down my Value T-Shirts.

My Value T-Shirt mark-down is for two reasons:

1. CafePress will be increasing its price for printing on a second side later this month. What this means is that either we shopkeepers can pass along the price increase to you guys (!), we can cut our mark-up (!!), or we can remove the graphics on the second side (a ton of extra work on top of an already heavy workload at the busiest part of the online retail year). I most likely will do the first and third: pass along the mark-up, plus start removing some - but not all! - of the second graphics. What this means is that all my merch printed on two sides will be slightly more expensive, but you'll start to be seeing prices drop as I remove the second graphics from many items. BTW, I have many, many items (most?) which have only one graphic, so they will not be affected in any way, price or otherwise. So....to make a long story shorter, my offering the Value tees at a lower price, may compensate a little for the increased price of the two-graphic items. (I'm giving it a shot for now, anyway. Running it up the flag pole; seeing if it will fly.)
2. The economy. It's getting a little ugly out there. The stock market has been like a roller-coaster this year - you have to hang on tight, and it's starting to get a little sick and nauseating. Then there's all those "sub-slime" (thank you for this apt word, Jim Cramer) and otherwise screwed-up mortgages and other "creative" financing/credit crunch. Gasoline prices, higher food prices... It's not a time to expect people to want to throw around their cash. It's a time where someone might be more interested in spending $9.99 for a tee she really likes and can afford, while, perhaps, the more expensive shirts have to be passed up (especially those with that added two-graphic CafePress mark-up!). The more flush among you won't care, but I do have sympathy for those who are uncomfortable shelling out more than $9.99 for a T-shirt at this time.

Telling you far more than I should, it's good news/bad news for me when I sell stickers, buttons, magnets, Value Tees, and the like. Good news in that I made a sale and that someone has appreciated and is now enjoying my stuff. But a little disappointing in that I'm making only $1 or two on the sale. (The more expensive items bring me $5 or more...)

Anyway, I'm way long, too long here. Just updating you, and wishing you well. Keep cool!

New Merch & Other News

I've been literally under the weather lately (bleeping climate change affecting my eyes, lungs, and sinuses - the downside of living in SoCal), as a result I haven't been keeping up with all my work as well as I'd like.

Can't believe I didn't post here yet about the arrival of the new Junior spaghetti tank tops and the new maternity tops, many of which have been in the For Women Old Enough... store for a while now. I do plan to add yet more. Check them out in "Sales & Features" The maternity tops come in black or white. The new spaghetti tank tops come in pastels as well as in white. See still more of this merch in the "Moms Rule" sections, and elsewhere in For Women Old Enough..., as well as in the Music Stuff & More store.

Here's some other - this is brand-new - news regarding all my CafePress stores from my CHM Biz News Blog (and please subscribe while you're there).

Of particular interest For Women Old Enough... (both you and the CafePress store), are the new Junior Jersey T-Shirts, which will be replacing the soon-to-be-former Junior Baby Doll T-Shirts. These are expected to be of higher quality - and will be offered in pink or blue, as well as in white. These new Jerseys ought to be in my CafePress stores within the next few days, according to CafePress, which is doing the bulk of the adding (quicker for you, easier for me - good news all around).

To view these changes at my family-friendly, women-friendly, children-family other CafePress store - a bigger one, frankly (huge!), please visit Music Stuff & More

I also recommend, once again, subscribing to my monthly CafePress newsletter. I'm really good at getting this newsletter out every month for years and years now, and still am, come heck or high water. It's probably the best way to keep up with what's going on regarding my CafePress stores. (Yes, I'm still working on my website - !, and still upgrading my blogs...).

You'll find my monthly CafePress Newsletter subscription/sign-up thingie in a box there on the right sidebar here, as well as on my CafePress premium stores' Storefronts.

Yet more, on a personal note: Yes, I've seen the new "Pirates", I'm happy to report : )

And, Friday's my birthday - no milestone, though. Yes, that makes me a Gemini. Not surprising, I am pretty much of an airhead. ; )

Be well, and do have good weather.

Sharing a Secret?

The cat's out of the bag... This is not yet public, but I'll share this with you blog people and hope that CafePress wouldn't mind (I sincerely doubt it would.).

From an official CafePress person:

Hi Shopkeepers,

We're adding excitement to Spring with new items and new color choices. Soon you'll see:

-- Maternity T-shirts: It's what you've been waiting for! With this shirt, we'll be offering a special belly print (10" x 10") area. Available in black and white.

-- Jr. Spaghetti: 3 new colors added! The colors are light pink, light blue, and lemon

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Me again.

Note that this merchandise is not out yet. But, it'll coming soon.

I know this is not so much a young woman place, or its accompanying store, but I thought you'd like to know. After all, you do have daughters, some of you. I will be making the maternity tops available in my stores - I do support moms - of all ages. : ) I think my already-available "Moms rule" graphic would work on those maternity tops, for a start.

Have a nice weekend! I'm looking forward to a quiet day by myself: baseball (just in front of the TV) while playing/working with my bead stuff, and reading my vast multitude of library books. Kicking back, relaxing, and, frankly, taking a break from this bleep electric box. Looking forward to Spiderman, too, in the next few days. Spidey's back! : ) (If you think I'm a bleep fool now, wait 'til "the Pirates"'s arrival later this month. Yo Ho, Yo Ho...) I'm just an old bleep kid. : D

BRAND-NEW Kids & Plus-Size T-Shirts : For Women Old Enough... : CafePress.com

BRAND-NEW Kids & Plus-Size T-Shirts : For Women Old Enough... : CafePress.com

Find more of this merchandise elsewhere in this store, with more being added. Find this merchandise being added in my other premium store as well - Music Stuff & More

New Mom & Granny Shirts Added

(That's the latest - the transparent background - version of "Groovy Grandma" at left.)

Check out the "Sales & Features" section of the store For Women Old Enough... for featured Lent/Easter Christian crosses, flowers, green Celtic Christian crosses (St. Pat's is coming), and plenty - lot and lots - of pink graphics, as well as pink shirts. Think Spring.

Lots of new shirts have been added recently to this store (as well as my Music Stuff & More store). Just today I added transparent-background versions of the "Moms Rule", "Grannies Rule", and "Groovy Grandma" graphics so that they could be added to the dark shirts available on CafePress now (see "Groovy Grandma" graphic just above - the brand-new version).

"Dark", BTW, includes a jillion other colors now in addition to black. For example, green, red, and blue now come on "dark" shirts. Women's "dark" T-shirts now include purple (violet?), red, aqua, and gray. There are many more colors of shirts these days around here. And, V-necks are now available, and many more Women's-sized shirts.