01/10/2021
Hey Beesties👋 Jane from Wildebeest here. This week has been a whirlwind -- change of seasons/month, mercury retrograde, delayed inventory restock, son's had a black eye from falling on his face, the never-ending Giants/Dodgers race to the NL West -- Go Giants!🖤🧡
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Within it all, I've somehow been able to shift my focus to product development which is definitely where I feel the happiest, most productive & confident. Finding this zone for me has become harder and harder over the years as I get sidetracked with more "business" tasks throughout the day. Even if I think of cool product ideas, it takes me getting into the right head space to throw down a single sketch on paper or bust out a meaningful mock-up.
First, I need all of the emails answered and orders shipped out, animal & plant pets watered & happy, the right kind of music playing, the studio clean and work table cleared... just so I can spread out my mess right back to a mad-scientist state of chaos again! Pretty fussy I know, but let's be honest, we all have our processes, right?🤓
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I had been thinking about a product idea for about 3 months... and I guess this week was the week? I finally sat down and made some prototypes I was happy with, and now I've got 4-5 products in different stages of development.
Shelby and I have already started testing some of the samples, and I’ll make more to have them field tested by others in the coming weeks. From here it’s a lot of tweaking before we send off the final prototype to the sample team at our factory, and probably a couple rounds of sampling before production.
I love this whole process... seeing an idea evolve into a fully functional product and engineering it to its best version possible along the way.🦋
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I hope you'll get to see most of what I'm working on now as real Wildebeest products next year, and will be sure to keep you posted on the progress!
Happy Friday✨