Let me tell you a little story about this shirt and God! (Maybe a little long but it's so amazing) See a couple of weeks ago I had a customer ask if I could make a certain design for a shirt by Tuesday, I checked with my vendor for printing time and it was a done deal. Fast forward to Tuesday print has not arrived actually USPS was showing that it had not even left the vendor's town, even though she mailed it Saturday and is only 2hrs away. So I know I could sublimate the design because I had a local vendor and they confirmed they could print same day. Customer said sure they loved the bleach look. So bleached sublimation it is then!
Here is were it's all God, Y'all I've watched and read lots of information but never have I actually bleached a shirt and I have only done one sublimation shirt. I'm a kind of I can do all things through Christ kind of girl! More than half the time I'm just winging it with God, and really don't have a clue how I'm going to make something happen but I'm always fully trusting God! So fast forward Y'all I have given this customer my word and I heard a training one time and it is so true "CUSTOMER SERVICE IS A MINDSET, NOT A DEPARTMENT!! So I know I have to use a certain shirt, however I do not have that kind. I really need to go to Dallas to get it, I do not want to go to Dallas for one shirt. But I decide that surely Waco has it. So I have to close the boutique for the day to go get everything for this shirt and off to Waco I go! Y'all not one store had the correct shirt and I'm truly debating going to Dallas, but I come across an almost correct shirt and some magic liquid that says it will make any shirt work for sublimation. I'm like let's give it a try, it was kind of pricey along with the shirt because they aren't a wholesale vendor, but I'm like it saves me a trip to Dallas.
Oh here is the fun part, now I have to bleach a shirt, that I have never done before so I'm praying Lord help me, guide me, direct me! I only have one shirt Lord(why didn't I get more than one shirt) and I start spraying the bleach and y'all it's working. Then I remember that i am supposed to soak it in something hit go and find my answer. I just happen to have exactly what I need. Wash and dry the shirt (it comes out amazing) in just enough time to pick up my sublimation print. Y'all I have no clue what I am doing, but still trusting God. I get to the boutique read the "magic liquid" instructions, and I do exactly as it says (the lady told me I have to follow it exactly). I press the shirt and it turns out amazing. Now since this shirt is not the exact blend that I need I have no clue if once this shirt is washed will the design stay. My customer contacts me and I let her know it is done and tell her the story. I explain I don't even know if I should charge her since I am not sure the design will stay. She explains to me yes she is going to pay me and she wouldn't wash that night, since her daughter needed it. Fast forward to the next morning and I receive a picture of her daughter wearing the shirt all smiles!!
Y'all it was all God, I truly didn't have a clue what I was doing but He showed me to fully trust in Him. That this is His business, I am just running it!! It was awesome to see God give me the push that I needed to do something new! To do something that I had wanted to do, but was to nervous!! With God I did it! With God this business will continue to grow, and He will continue to show me what I am capable of!! So as I am writing this blog post I am also waiting on my new printer and press, so that I can print some designs in house!! I am so excited what doors this will open, knowing that God is leading and guiding me every step of the way!! So as you look at this picture, look at it knowing the next step maybe scary but God's got you! Keep Him first and He will never leave you nor forsake you!!