Splodge

As I mentioned in the Top Surgery post Arlo and I are in the process of saving for their top surgery which is pretty pricey. We’re hoping to have Arlo’s top surgery booked for Summer 2020 (once we have the money for a deposit of course) and that is a relatively short amount of time to find £7000.

Arlo toyed with the idea of setting up a GoFundMe to raise money but ultimately decided they wanted to give back to the people donating in some way. They came up with the idea of starting a small screen printing business, whereby we print our own designs onto T-Shirts and bags to sell online.

And so our tiny business Splodge was born! The way it works is Arlo (who’s a professional graphic designer) designs all the prints, then we both screen print the designs onto T-Shirts which are then sold online. The cool thing about buying from our little business Splodge is that we don’t have huge expenses (as it’s literally just Arlo and I printing designs on the dining table) and so all profits go into Arlo’s top surgery fund.

Also given the current state of climate change I was very adamant that we use environmentally friendly methods as much as possible. So the T-Shirts we buy use sustainably sourced cotton, the printing ink is eco friendly, and I’m currently looking into biodegradable mailing bags.

If anyone is interested we have a fully functioning website which accepts both credit/debit card and PayPal payments which you can find here: splodge.bigcartel.com

Or you can otherwise keep up to date with us via our Facebook or Instagram.