Bye bye July, hello August!
This means only one thing for all of those who opted in and became a member (don't worry it's free) : The August 2024 printable calendar page is live in the Freebie zone!
In my neck of the wood it means that we are going to be slowly falling into the festive season with India's Independence day on the 15th and Raksha bandhan on the 19th.
The monsoon is for now as I type these words taking it's usual slow down period, but not before leaving Mumbai more than wet in the past 2 weeks. Hopefully we will get a bit more rain toward the second half of August because I am not ready to sweat just yet.
I use the monsoon months to get working on the fall and winter / holidays designs because a good, cool and pleasant rainy day puts me in the mood to create cozy designs. It's hard to get in that mood in a tropical climate, I need all the help I can get.
Speaking of what you should be doing if you are a designer like me :
- Promote : summery and tropical designs on your social media feeds but start hinting at back to school content. In several countries kids go back to school during the month of August and college kids start shopping to decorate their dorm room around that time, especially if this is their first year of going to college.
- Create : Keep on creating cozy fall/winter and holidays themed illustrations or abstract geometric in a warm color palette.
- Upload : Christmas and Fall designs! You must start uploading all your holidays themed now. By September it's getting too late to upload new fall and Halloween themed fabrics in particular as sewists and crafters will be wrapping up those projects and start working on the Holidays projects they might have.
For PoD like Redbubble and Society6 you can still keep on uploading them until the beginning of October because they have a faster production and delivery process and they are dealing with finished products, but with Spoonflower, you want to factor in the fact people will need that fabric with plenty of time to turn it into a project BEFORE the season kicks in
I myself have been working on a Winter Holidays collection I am about to wrap up this week, I made the greeting cards of said collection available for sale in my Patreon shop as printables already. Next on the agenda is finishing up a Christmas collection I have on the back burner for now.
How is your month of August going to be?
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