Gh☆st

Hi I’m ghost! I’m a writer and artist with lots of other interests and hobbies. I’m the creator of https://www.laboratorynetworks.space

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I’m making these flower design Kandi bracelets for my shop but what about the singles? Is there interests for singles?

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Feeling kinda down about my business.

Right now I only have suckers and keychains of the same 4 designs (one just having two color variations) but the goal was to always expand into other stuff, primarily books and arg like stuff. Im also expanding into making Kandi bracelets and paracord keychains/bracelets right now.

It’s just takes so much money to get just one product listed (pictures take up a lot of that money cause I have no way to make my photos I take look good so I use a professional photographer).

I’ve made three total sales since starting two years ago… :/

I guess my issue starting out with absolutely no connections. Like I had no online or real life friends to share this with and then they share it. I had no pre-existing following either (I feel like when I see artists start their own business they usually do so after a while making just content).

I get next to nothing social media engagement (two or five likes max and one is usually myself).

I feel lost in a way and really lonely.

Is my stuff just bad? Am I not trying hard enough?

I thought if maybe I moved away from selling prints and into making stuff with some utility maybe I would get more but that’s not what happened.

I don’t mean to sound ungrateful or like I’m only doing this for money because I’m not, I’m just trying to make it on my own cause there’s no way that I could ever get hired (a least not with the current job market especially with not graduating highschool)

I just thought that maybe I could have made it on my own.

Any tips or advice?

[ghost-flesh-1]

I have so many ideas too for things to sell (that probably have more appeal) but I don’t have the money to do so… :/

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This all really comes from a comment that my mom made to me about putting my stuff on Etsy instead of my own website… the one I’ve been working on for years at this point.

It’s not a secret to my family that I just haven’t been successful. I mean they are the ones who have to take me to the post office so they know when I make a sale (or that I haven’t made one since last year) and have to support me in other ways (not with my business cause apparently just asking them to like my posts is too much to ask for. Never mind that they ask me to directly help with their ventures).

Just made me feel like all the work and my own vision isn’t good enough and maybe that’s true.

[ghost-flesh-1]

Feeling kinda down about my business.

Right now I only have suckers and keychains of the same 4 designs (one just having two color variations) but the goal was to always expand into other stuff, primarily books and arg like stuff. Im also expanding into making Kandi bracelets and paracord keychains/bracelets right now.

It’s just takes so much money to get just one product listed (pictures take up a lot of that money cause I have no way to make my photos I take look good so I use a professional photographer).

I’ve made three total sales since starting two years ago… :/

I guess my issue starting out with absolutely no connections. Like I had no online or real life friends to share this with and then they share it. I had no pre-existing following either (I feel like when I see artists start their own business they usually do so after a while making just content).

I get next to nothing social media engagement (two or five likes max and one is usually myself).

I feel lost in a way and really lonely.

Is my stuff just bad? Am I not trying hard enough?

I thought if maybe I moved away from selling prints and into making stuff with some utility maybe I would get more but that’s not what happened.

I don’t mean to sound ungrateful or like I’m only doing this for money because I’m not, I’m just trying to make it on my own cause there’s no way that I could ever get hired (a least not with the current job market especially with not graduating highschool)

I just thought that maybe I could have made it on my own.

Any tips or advice?

[ghost-flesh-1]

I have so many ideas too for things to sell (that probably have more appeal) but I don’t have the money to do so… :/

[ghost-flesh-1]

Feeling kinda down about my business.

Right now I only have suckers and keychains of the same 4 designs (one just having two color variations) but the goal was to always expand into other stuff, primarily books and arg like stuff. Im also expanding into making Kandi bracelets and paracord keychains/bracelets right now.

It’s just takes so much money to get just one product listed (pictures take up a lot of that money cause I have no way to make my photos I take look good so I use a professional photographer).

I’ve made three total sales since starting two years ago… :/

I guess my issue starting out with absolutely no connections. Like I had no online or real life friends to share this with and then they share it. I had no pre-existing following either (I feel like when I see artists start their own business they usually do so after a while making just content).

I get next to nothing social media engagement (two or five likes max and one is usually myself).

I feel lost in a way and really lonely.

Is my stuff just bad? Am I not trying hard enough?

I thought if maybe I moved away from selling prints and into making stuff with some utility maybe I would get more but that’s not what happened.

I don’t mean to sound ungrateful or like I’m only doing this for money because I’m not, I’m just trying to make it on my own cause there’s no way that I could ever get hired (a least not with the current job market especially with not graduating highschool)

I just thought that maybe I could have made it on my own.

Any tips or advice?

[ghost-flesh-1]

Some works in progress! Just waiting on a few more supplies.

These won’t be in the shop for a while but I’ll update when they are! (^-^)

[ghost-flesh-1]

Here’s the finished website!! [ https://www.laboratorynetworks.space ]

It’s not the best but I think it looks quite nice… at least the desktop version, the mobile version doesn’t look as nice unfortunately (mostly due to the font size needing to be big enough but I might be able to decrease it a little bit)

Ok it’s not 100% finished since there’s a lot of content missing on account of me just not having made it yet 😓…

The homepage has a bit more content below what the screen shot shows!

It would mean a lot for someone to take a look at it and possibly let me know what could be improved or needs fixing!

[ghost-flesh-1]

Here’s the mobile version.

Looking back at it there’s a few things that should be changed but it’s completely usable! Doesn’t look as good as the desktop version though ʅ（◞‿◟）ʃ

[ghost-flesh-1]

Some bracelets I’ll have in the shop at some point, there’s still lots to finish before I can list them (get enough materials to make a decent amount of stock, finish up the packaging).

If you’re interested you can head to my website and sign up for an email alert when they are available!

[ https://www.laboratorynetworks.space/shop ]

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[ghost-flesh-1]

Here’s the finished website!! [ https://www.laboratorynetworks.space ]

It’s not the best but I think it looks quite nice… at least the desktop version, the mobile version doesn’t look as nice unfortunately (mostly due to the font size needing to be big enough but I might be able to decrease it a little bit)

Ok it’s not 100% finished since there’s a lot of content missing on account of me just not having made it yet 😓…

The homepage has a bit more content below what the screen shot shows!

It would mean a lot for someone to take a look at it and possibly let me know what could be improved or needs fixing!

[ghost-flesh-1]

I’m having fun redoing my website but now I have to match up the mobile version to the desktop -_-

I can’t get it to look as good following the same stylization and formatting while preserving ease of use (not that my website is all that easy to use) but I think it looks good enough.

Large part of it is the font size needing to be big enough to click as my site is mostly made up of links (to get to other webpages and to download stuff). Unfortunately I can’t have the character spacing be as wide as the desktop version so it looks slightly off from that.

Just let it be known if you can access my website using a desktop please do!! It looks so nice that way :)

Here’s some very bad quality images of the currently unfinished versions ⬇️

[ghost-flesh-1]

Honestly I don’t think my website is that bad considering I know nothing about web design!

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A month later I now hate it….ʅ（◞‿◟）ʃ

Spent the last two days redoing things not sure when I’ll have it done though.

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I’ve received two identical messages like this from two different accounts.

Obviously a scam but has anyone else gotten these or have more information on them?

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I said something really stupid infront of my family and they were really shocked.

I’m really upset and I hate myself for saying it.

It came out wrong.

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Been a bad night…

Tomorrow nights going to be worse.

Not doing well lately.

[ghost-flesh-1]

I said something really stupid infront of my family and they were really shocked.

I’m really upset and I hate myself for saying it.

It came out wrong.

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Some flyer designs I made for my website. Now the matter of where I can post these is well uhh... let's not think about that :).

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I just realized the curser keychain flyer has the curser STICKERS caption :|

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Some flyer designs I made for my website. Now the matter of where I can post these is well uhh... let's not think about that :).

[ghost-flesh-1]

Honestly I don’t think my website is that bad considering I know nothing about web design!

Laboratorynetworks | Your Online Hub for Creative Innovation

Discover creative projects and sci-fi stories at Laboratorynetworks. Explore creative projects at Laboratorynetworks today!