Welcome to the inside of my brain,
I'm Nicole, and I'm the creative nutcase behind all the madness you'll see in these digital pages.
Mad As Designs spawned in 2011, from me wanting to share my pretty things with the world. I took my gorgeous creations to AVCon in Adelaide and became hooked on doing conventions and markets.
A lot of people seem to "Do the Groundwork" for putting together a business before launching their campaign as a business owner. That was never me. There was no direction, no real goal. Just a want to make and improve skills.
I'd always thought of myself as a hobby, nothing business-y about it. Then more and more people started liking my things, making comments on them and becoming a proper fully run business became a reachable goal.
I've always been in dribs and drabs, have never had a "set stock list" and over the past six years I've learned a lot about what not to do a a small business owner.
I have a basic mission statement that looks like this:
- Affordable
- Interesting
- Unique
One of my biggest pay offs is people taking that second look at my work when they realise how much detail and thought has been put into each piece. I boast of a catalogue of over three hundred pieces and I've never replicated a piece.
Mad As Designs spawned in 2011, from me wanting to share my pretty things with the world. I took my gorgeous creations to AVCon in Adelaide and became hooked on doing conventions and markets.
A lot of people seem to "Do the Groundwork" for putting together a business before launching their campaign as a business owner. That was never me. There was no direction, no real goal. Just a want to make and improve skills.
I'd always thought of myself as a hobby, nothing business-y about it. Then more and more people started liking my things, making comments on them and becoming a proper fully run business became a reachable goal.
I've always been in dribs and drabs, have never had a "set stock list" and over the past six years I've learned a lot about what not to do a a small business owner.
I have a basic mission statement that looks like this:
- Affordable
- Interesting
- Unique
One of my biggest pay offs is people taking that second look at my work when they realise how much detail and thought has been put into each piece. I boast of a catalogue of over three hundred pieces and I've never replicated a piece.
