It all started in 2012 when I came across Cafepress and signed up to put my art onto their products. Cafepress, if you didn't know, is a Print On Demand marketplace company that allows artists and designers to place their art onto things like t-shirts or mugs etc. However I found it hard to use and they didn't have a payment system that was good for me as I am from the U.K.
I left that for a while until I found Zazzle, another P.O.D company that did the same thing but had everything set up better and really good forums. The forums back then were full of other artists that explained how everything worked and I soon learnt how to do things properly. I did pretty well at it for a few years. But the company changed it's setup after a while and I got less sales from it.
I then joined Redbubble to see if they were any better. They had a fresh approach and seemed to be very attractive, especially to younger people.
But after all the events like recessions and the pandemic I found that they weren't making much money. Royalty commissions were very low and it wasn't worth the time and effort for such little reward. Worse still was the fact that these companies now treat their artists very badly. They took the forums away. Cafepress removed artists and their details from all their products. Its as if we don't exist to them now.
Anyway, years later when I met Murphy it turns out he is also an artist. When he saw what I had been doing he was very interested. We found a company that could print t-shirts and other products for us, we decided we could set up a business ourselves, away from these P.O.D.s and do things better. With my knowledge and experience I had gained over the years and a rather large collection of art already to use, we were ready to set up our own shop. Murphy now bringing his unique artist skills and fresh ideas, we were all set to create some new products.
We set up Murphy Morgan Gifts (named after Murphy's first name and my last name Heather Moragn) in October 2024.
We now sell t-shirt, long sleeve t-shirts, sweatshirts, hoodies, coffee mugs and 2 types of tote bag. Cottton shopping tote bags and canvas shoulder tote bags.
We enjoy what we do and are very excitedly adding our art designs to products, filling up our shop with what we hope to be gifts that everyone will want to have and share with their friends and loved ones.
