Let's Plan it: A Decade of Fun, Fails, and Fantastic Memories!
Wow, it is hard to believe it has been 10 years of LPI already! What a dream, I am so unbelievably proud of this accomplishment. Weekly collections have always been my favourite thing to design, I love finding unique fun fresh art, picking the colour palette and bringing the vision to life! Come with me as we journey back through the decade of weekly kit collections and all their variations and changes!
Let's start at the beginning <3 LPI first opened on Etsy on April 10th 2015. I began making weekly kits in Summer of that year, sadly all of those files sadly are lost but I have some from late 2015 to late 2016 <--
After that I made the change to a 6 sheet format, with a cute lil LPI Brit logo!
check them out ---> late 2016
I was struggling to find the right logo and format for my kits in 2017 - 2019, we went through lots of changes but I feel like each time they got better and better! I was always striving to make the perfect kit for me and hopefully for you too!
Check them out --> 2017-2018 --> 2018-2019
In summer of 2019 I made the big move to open the shopify website! July 25th 2019 www.letsplanit.ca was launched! Our 1st era of the "named" kits --> 2019-2020 kits!
That brings us to the end of 2020. I was really feeling this style of listings and product photos, you will still see a ton of similarities from the Shopify launch to now. I have made some tweaks but the bones remain!
the 2021 era --> view 2021 the 2022 era --> view 2022
Parts of 2023, all of 2024 were a big struggle! I almost threw in the towel in 2024, I was feeling very down and burnt out, sales were so much lower than they had been since year 2. I was getting very scared and self doubt was so loud. I leaned on my amazing friends/ design team and decided to stick it out. I decided to design what I felt drawn to, try new things and find my passion again, I am so glad I did, I did some of my favourite work in 2023 and 2024! And I finally found a layout and logo I really felt was near perfect! About darn time eh?!
the 2023 era --> view 2023 the 2024 era --> view 2024
That brings us to current day! --> view 2025
We made it, 10 years! I cannot even begin to know how to say thank you to my LPI family, the community we have built over these 10 years brings me so much joy and pride. 10 years ago I could never have imagined that I would be doing this as my career. Doing something I love and interacting with our amazing community everyday!
Thank you for 10 amazing years LPI fam!! If you are new to LPI, welcome! You will find some of the best, most supportive people in our community!
come join us here --> https://www.facebook.com/groups/letsplanit
Check out my next blog post to see the "Decade of Design". 10 collections have been redesigned and will release on April 24th. Just in time for a big sale <3