Logo design and shipping! Oh my!

It's been a while since I've worked on my scarf project. However, this week I've started feeling an urgency to get some details ironed out so this project can get off the ground! Details like finding a graphic designer to design my 'ck scarf' logo and going to the post office to figure out how much it's going to cost to mail chemo scarves to ALL 50 states, Canada and Australia. My husband has a co-worker friend who said she would design my logo for me. She'll come up with 5 different designs and I can use them however I want. The cost? $100. I need to give her some ideas of how I imagine my logo looking, so that's the part I'm working on. Once the logo is done I will get in touch with a label company and get my labels ordered. Still haven't picked a company to do that, but I wonder if it'll be easier for me to choose a company once I know what the design looks like. There are SO many choices for labels! Iron on ones, tag labels you sew on, and tons more options.

Today I had the rare opportunity of being alone. My kids are off in various places. It was kinda nice! I used this time to go to the Post Office and figure out shipping. The post office can be so busy with lots of people waiting in line so I was pleasantly surprised that the post office was not crowded. I was glad to not feel rushed to ask my questions and move on so the next guy in line could have his turn. The post master took his time explaining my options. The best option is to mail my chemo scarves in one of these padded flat rate envelopes. I will pay the SAME price to mail them to every state in the USA! The envelopes come with tracking, insurance up to $50, and a 3-4 day delivery time. To ship 10 chemo scarves in one of these envelopes it will cost me $6.10. To get these envelopes you have to go online and order them (for FREE) from the Postal store. I've already ordered some. They come in a package of 10, so I ordered 6. Sixty envelopes will be enough to mail to all 50 states and Canada and Australia. So, as I just mentioned, I am mailing chemo scarves to Canada AND Australia. Why not? Shipping to Canada in one of these envelopes will cost $21.95. If mailed in one of my own manilla envelopes it'll only cost $10.30. Shipping takes 2-3 weeks to get to Canada, and the tracking may not work. Shipping to Australia in their envelope is $26.50, and using my own envelope $16.00. Shipping to Australia is also 2-3 weeks and if it gets lost on its way there? Too bad, so sad for me. There is no guarantee when shipping to Australia.
The grand total for shipping to Canada, Australia and all 50 states is going to be close to $353.45. Making 520 scarves will take time, so I won't have to incur this big payment all at once, but slowly over time.


There is still one item of business that I am still trying to get scheduled and that is to have one of my husbands video taking friends help me make a YouTube video of how to tie my scarf on a bald persons head. Quite a few of my breast cancer support group ladies that I have given scarves to have asked me how to wear it. Adding a YouTube channel link with my chemo scarf will help many people know how to wear it. I am going to ask one of my friends in my support group who is currently bald to be my model. Who said cancer can't make you famous?!

Doing all this research and finding a designer make me realize that this dream is becoming a reality and one day it will come true! And that makes me think of all the lives this project will bless!

Doing all this research and finding a designer make me realize that this dream is becoming a reality and one day it will come true! And that makes me think of all the lives this project will bless!