Ok so I can't hide my excitement. We FINALLY have shirts live on chinchillaplace. I know I have been yammering on about chinchilla t shirts for some time  but it took a little longer than expected to pull everything together.

 1ST We had to locat great artists. Thanks to Jones and Ajani we ended up with some pretty cool ideas and images (see chinchilla art page. But once the images were completed we had to find at t-shirt place to make them.  There are several great options out there; Zazzle, custom ink and others, but in the end of the day we chose Zazzle as an easy way to get started on t-shirts.

 Once Zazzle was chosen as the shopping cart engine I thought we were in business. Chinchilla Place is built on a CMS, this means it is SUPER easy to make changes to the site without begging a web designer or tech person every time I need something. The CMS and all the easy to use tools that have made chinchilla place possible are all thanks to the super awesome internet marketing company HubSpot that I work for. Hey if they can make this work for chinchillas imagine the possibilities...It's also VERY affordable so all you entrepreneurs out there holla:).

Ok but back to business once the shirts and the zazzle account were all complete, I ran into a snag. Zazzle sent me a PDF on how to install their shopping cart. With the little time I have and the little knowledge I have on HTML this became a daunting task to install. In short...I was totally stuck. It's not that I couldn't learn how to install it, I guess all things are possible,but the time it would take me to learn was, well, a little overwhelming. Owning 9 chins and a website and having a full time job and being a full time wife, daughter, sister and all my other important roles it was a bit much. In the end I relied on one of the sweetest sources to find, sell or do anything under the sun…Craig’s list. CRAIGSLIST.COM IS AMAZING. First they helped me find some awesome artists and then a great web person, Micah from http://tachyondesigns.com

The people I worked with really pulled my ideas into a reality. They worked hard and were very timely and professional in putting things together. Finally Chinchilla Place has shirts thanks to some good ideas from the team here, some terrific artists and hard working web people! Please check out the new chinchilla shirt line and vote for your favorite. Your feedback is appreciated and I would love to hear new ideas for fun and funky new shirts and other chinchilla merchandise.