Issey is in New York!

Ismoyo is officially filed as a business in New York!
It feels good, exciting and very scary at the same time.
I used to have a small business in Amsterdam before i moved, and i had been planning to set up shop here again too, but new country, new rules. Everything i've learned about being a small business owner has to be dubblechecked to see if the rules are the same here.

I am glad to say that the setting up part was a bit easier here then back in Amsterdam. I went to the County Clerk's office to file my business certificates. They were very helpful and the forms were not too complicated to start with. I had to get them notarized and was told i could do that at the candyshop around the corner of the courthouse. That made me laugh, in Amsterdam if you have to get something notarized, it's all very official, not something you do at the deli or the candyshop! So i got that done. The guy there told me i could come back after filing to get my Certificate to collect Sales Tax and tax id, he said that would cost me 40 dollars. Crazy. I knew already i could request it for free online. So i went back to the courthouse with my forms, they signed and stamped them, and voila. Done. The sweet lady gave me a pink candy cane which i thought was a very appropriate way to start Ismoyo. Pink, sweet and cute.

in the meantime i am also busy setting up my shop backoffice (finally!). I might also put some items up on Etsy, but want to have my shop on my own website too. Oh and of course i'm making items to actually sell. I'm currently also working on some small illustration projects and and AND: officially working on another very large and exciting project. Which is still a bit on the hush hush, but is very creative and all my hard work that i'm putting in is scheduled to be revealed in the fall of 2008. But i bet i will talk about it here before that. ;)