I started off Monday morning with the intent to build a store to add to my blog and to use with and for my membership.  The thought seemed simple enough, and I proceeded to log into my Zazzle account to get things set up.  

Well it's not as easy as they say, for there must a  step system in order to get your newly designed products into the store.  I had no problem designing, it's getting the design to appear in your store.  A click of a button allows you to place product in the marketplace, but not in your own store.   I design 20 items and managed to get 4 into the store.  I flogged away at this for 7 hours, and still did not have a store.

(https://i.imgur.com/krAQQ6h.png)

I was determined to have a store, and with no results from Zazzle I decided to give TeeSpring a whirl.  So I set up a new account and got to work.

After a few hours of work I seemed to be making progress.  I was adding items to the store etc., but it seemed to take a long time for anything to appear in the store.  On the stroke of 1:00 am I gave up and headed for bed. 

Tuseday morning came and I logged into both stores to see if anything magical had happened while I was sleeping.  Everything appeared to be the same.  Next to no product visible.  Work on Zazzle first, and after 2 hours of no new progress, I moved on to TeeSpring.  I did the same there and still not seeing any results.  At this point I still had no store for my blog...so as a last ditch effort, I decided to try one more site.  This one is CafePress.

I choose a theme for my store, you have to be careful here as most of the templates have errors, but with a little help from my friend html I managed to get a working theme, and in a few hours I was starting to get product into the store.  I called it a day around 12:30 pm.

Wednesday I did my usual routine and then logged into my store to finish up.  Well I found multiple errors that needed to get fixed and my playing wtith the currency buttons had my pricing gone wonky.  I spent the rest of the day fixing and getting things straightened out, and at 11:50 pm logged out with finished store.  

So today I logged into Zazzle and TeeSpring to see if anything had changed, and at Zazzle it was as I left it on Tuesday but at TeeSpring my products had magically appeared so I do have a store but the prices are a little out there.  Take a look here:  [On The Wild Side](https://teespring.com/stores/on-the-wild-side).  I doubt that I will use this but I will keep it as a backup.

The end of three frustrating days, but I did it and I am one step closer to my end goal  of financial independence.   You can check it out here, it still needs a bit more but because it's an addition to my blog, simple works for me.

Here's the[ link ](https://www.cafepress.com/tshirtsbyc2c/17086436)and if you have any questions about my journey just asK.

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