On shipping day, we take a box of main kits and one of each add on and place them on one eight foot table. This helps us keep a running count of how many kits are complete and determines the $ amount of our paycheck!! I am always afraid that we miscount or forget to mark our tally sheet, so I go through and hand count all of the kits at least twice to make sure that we have the right number in the end. Cara and I keep track of how many kits we assemble on a tally sheet. We label each of the boxes with how many kits it holds and the name of the kit so that we can tell at a glance where everything is when it comes time to ship. We have different areas of the office for main kits and add on's. Once we complete 10, we take the box and put it in the storage room where it will eventually be pulled and placed in the box for shipping. We use the boxes that we receive product in to hold the kits on our shelves. Once we have a stack of papers, we place one set of papers in the bag, gather the embellishments, add them to the bag and then fold and close with a sticker. We go down the table and grab one sheet of each paper, then stack them on our workstation. Cara has a four foot table as a workstation and I have a four foot table as a workstation. We put the eight foot tables end to end and lay all of the paper out on one and then the embellishments go at the end of the second one. I know that you are not going to believe this, but we pack on two eight foot tables and two four foot tables. OK, now that we have the product and have it sorted or assembled, it is time to set it up for packing.
I tried really hard to show you without showing you if you know what I mean!! You'll get your sneak peaks soon enough. Don't look to hard at the picture, I'm working on sorting something for the July kit right now. I cleaned up all of the toddler toys, sippie cups and laundry so that it would look presentable!! My husband laughs at me because I devised this little set up to keep everything up out of Natalee's reach, but it allows me to be right here with her while she plays and watches her morning cartoons.
#Photoshop 101 with jessica sprague portable
Now, I've shown you Cara on the floor at the office sorting, so I guess I'd better show you my workstation here at home.ĭon't make fun of my high tech set up! It may look like an ordinary ironing board to you, but my workstation is portable and I get to sit in my comfy chair and watch TV while I work. Sometimes it is such a simple task that we tackle it right in the office, but other times we take the product home and work on it a couple of hours a day until we are ready to assemble kits. That is what you see Cara doing in the picture below. For instance, we open a manufacturer's package and separate the items into smaller quantities. I must say, that was one of the most difficult assemblies that we have ever took FOREVER!! Sometimes the assemblies are very simple. All of the chipboard trees had to be sorted, ribbon had to be cut, beads had to be sorted and then it was all assembled into one bag in your kit. A good example of this step were the plastic bags in your June kits that contained the Maya Road Trees, AC Ribbon, and Fruit Beads. Next we go through the process of sorting or assembling products. Some days we get one or two boxes and other days we get twenty boxes! Trust me, she is really good at this and catches a lot of errors that would cost us a lot of time and energy later. The process starts with Scarlet receiving product and counting to make sure that all of the quantities are correct.
#Photoshop 101 with jessica sprague trial
Through the process of trial and error that started out in April's dining room and has now moved to the office that you saw yesterday, we have come up with a pretty efficient system to pack your kits each month. When you get your brown box and open it to get your first look at all of those yummy papers and embellies, do you sometimes find yourself distracted thinking, "How on earth do they do this every month?" If so, welcome to kit packing 101.
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