This isn’t a drill, this is happening.

It’s been 7 years since I shut down ACDSleeve and in that time there’s always been a thought of “what if”. What if I gave it another go with everything I’d learned in packaging design/production. What if I had the time and resources to actually think of it as a business, not a hobby that got out of control and improved pretty much everything across the board. What if I could offer packaging for anything, which I’ve been doing as a job for the last 7 years, not just music (but always music).

I initially looked into this around 18 months ago when I got made redundant, reset up the Instagram account again after taking over the old account as a personal one. It wouldn’t have worked back then, being forced into that decision rather than it being a choice. Thinking that the grass is greener with a steady income at a job, when for me, I don’t think it is, this is what I do best.

Many factors in my life have aligned and I’m going for it. I handed in my notice at my job just over a week ago and got the ball rolling with everything. There is a huge amount I need to look into to improve where it fell down last time, it’ll take a while to figure out. There’s a chance I may not even be taking orders next year, but hopefully with this being my full focus as of February, once I’ve worked my notice period, it shouldn’t take too long to hit the ground running.

Every time I had thoughts about doing this again the negatives always outweighed the positives and it felt so daunting, this time around as daunting as it is it feels equally exciting.