I’m Leslie, I’ve been at CafePress for coming on 5 years, and I have far too many T-shirts.
The shirt at left was modified by yours truly with a pair of desk scissors so that I could rock the 1980’s P.E. student look at the 2007 CafePress Survivor Olympics: Birthday Battle! (This was the annual picnic including ridiculous Survivor-like activities like bat races and tug of war. Teams were broken down by astrological sign: Air, Water, Fire and Earth. Sadly, my homies on Team Earth were defeated by Water, which as we all know is a force to be reckoned with.)
Anyway, I’ve been working with the Shopkeepers in some form or another since I started at CP and I started/managed the Top Shopkeeper Program, so I’ve had the fortune to hear a lot of awesome and inspiring CafePress Shopkeeper stories.
Since I’m not known for being pithy, I’ll share my favorite one before signing off…
One gal was unemployed, depressed and sitting on her father’s front porch trying to figure out what the heck she was going to do. On the table was a magazine, and the wind blew it open to an article that mentioned CafePress.
She read the article and thought, “I can do that!”
And as it turned out, she most certainly could. This gal never had to go back to a day job and now makes a living running her CafePress shop. Eventually her husband joined the act as well.
Call it divine intervention, serendipity, fate or coincidence. Or just call it a freak windstorm-cum-windfall.
In any case, that’s me. The one in the weird outfits at company picnics (I did 70’s gym teacher in 2006, so I guess this year I’ll have to do 90’s grunge to be chronological) who’s known for wearing boas and fedoras to pimp people’s shops (the photo at right was taken at CP Connect during my “Pimp My Shop” session) and has an often-changing haircut.
And yes, I like pink boas. And sometimes I like pink hair, too.
Non of the political candidates seem to grasp the energy problem–and the fact that the U.S. has already identified oil sources for the balance of this century. I suppose someone in the Bush administration knows about the Bakken find, and the future fact of deep sea oil to fill even the country’s stupid failure to curtail oil use. But not for $1 per gallon–now or ever again. Make political hay with facts to both delight and disappoint!!
Hi Leslie a.k.a. buzzcowboy, thank you for sharing. I am newbie at Cafepress.com and joined the club on May 2008. Your story is very inspiring as I am now unemployed, too. I haven’t made a single sales since joining the Cafepress.com yet I am sure I will someday. Good luck to you and your husband!!!