wichita trip and starting a business...

i'm already a business owner to some degree with "filthEdesign"...wait, i'll start at the beginning...

went to drop off the piece below to my great friend robyn who commissioned the piece. she lives in wichita and she and her husband own a graphic design business that they started from scratch with the help of the wichita state small business development center. they had lots of great information to share and lots of positive energy. i also got to meet their 3 daughters and there are no words for how great they are :) their oldest was at least in part named after me which is a huge honor to me! she's sweet and kind and reminds me a lot of her mom :) and their middle daughter is intense and i'm thinking perhaps a genius...seriously...and their youngest is adorable and vivacious :)

anyway :) jason and i have just started to look through information...we'll need to fill out a form and then see if we can make an appt. for counseling with the lawrence small biz dev. group...hopefully they're awesome and we don't have to go to topeka or wichita to find help!

art and design will be our primary endeavors...jason excels at print design and collateral, architectural design, branding, and the like...

and then i'll cover fine art and graphic design as well...we'll probably need to find a developer to work with if we want to delve too far into web design...but i'd like to...

we've contemplated a storefront...if we can figure it out and get a grant to pay for it...

we also stopped for krispy kremes on our way out of town...i only regret we couldn't have stayed longer!

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