Hi friend.
This particular email has been saved in the draft section for a very, very long time. I’m so glad I can finally tell you my Very Big News. I’ve done something a little audacious.
I used to be quite audacious. As a little kid, I would write little stories that were frankly concerning (Pony Pals: Dead Town fan fic anyone?) and send them to the newspaper, expecting them to be dying to publish my nonsense. As an angsty teenager, I would send my underdeveloped and downright bad stories to legitimate lit mags (my apologies to the editors of the Malahat Review) and think it was their loss when they didn’t publish them. I don’t know where the confidence to send alarmingly bad pages to serious publications came from, but I do know that for better or for worse, university taught me to have a little shame.
That’s when I learned to ask myself: Who are you to think you can do this? Who do you think you are? This led to the shuttering of my fashion blog (lol RIP) to be more serious (extra lol) and the end of writing anything enjoyable until very recently.
I think it’s safe to say that I overcorrected a little too hard at that time, and now I’m unlearning all of that BS bit by bit. And today is a very big step in being audacious.
I am pleased to be writing you to inform you that I had the audacity to start a laser cutting company! Say hello to:
Who do I think I am? I’m Trish, and I am now armed with a laser cutter. Pew pew. (Please picture finger guns.)
Larrikin is a new division of CNC Cutting Inc. that I’m leading and it has been lurking in the background of my life for the last year. Thanks to international shipping delays, life changes, electrical troubles, and all sorts of other hurdles, it’s taken a little longer than I thought it would to send this email, but let me start by answering your first question: What does Larrikin mean?
I’ll be trying to bring that cheeky, unconventional approach to laser cutting and engraving, and I hope that if you have anything you need personalized, branded or etched, you’ll keep me and my lil laser in mind. (Just kidding, the laser is huge.) Also, the domain was super cheap in Canada.
For an idea of how long I’ve been sitting on this, please consider the tan I had when it showed up versus how pale I am now that it’s running:
CanCon Shoutout
This one’s a little extra special. I’m going to use this space to shout out the amazing Mel Hayes, who did the branding package for my new bebe company. She’s a fantastic designer, wonderful artist, and my western-Canada Alberta-born Toronto-based tennis buddy and you should give her art and design work a peek.
That’s it.
It’s a short one this time. I’ve got a business to run now after all.