New Project LIGHT TENT

As I've mentioned before, I do sell vintage items on Etsy. I first found out about this website in 2009. I can't even remember how but I get the feeling that I might have been thinking a lot about starting a shop there before last winter. In any event, I started selling in late February of this year. I had a different shop that I do now and it was more for my handmade items than for things of a vintage nature. It didn't go well for me and truth be told I don't think I would like doing it. I kept imagining scenarios where I would get maybe 10 orders (which I never did of course but just humor me) and then have to make the same thing over and over again! Talk about boring! So I guess I like the design side of business more than the putting-things-together side. This doesn't count for the first few times though. I could make something I design probably four times tops. I think efficiency in design is important.

Selling vintage is a much more pleasant experience for me. And I have a lot of confidence in my future as a seller of vintage things. I've never had a ton of confidence in my design capabilities. I don't tend to do well with designing mass marketable things. I think I may be a good artist. I think I have very eccentric tastes so when I design something it might not be attractive or marketable objectively but it might be pretty to me.

So anyway, I've been thinking of a way to make it easier for me to work and take pictures at any time I want. I've been thinking about light boxes a lot lately. I would think having one would make it so convenient to photograph anything I sell. So it wouldn't matter if it were cloudy, I would have my light box, or light tent (which would be way better).
    Searching for fabric I ran across some rip-stop nylon which is supposed to be a good diffusive material that is also heat resistant. I have some metal poles around the apartment from my boyfriends abandoned rep-rap that I might be able to use for the support. So the only thing left to figure out now is how to make it collapsible because space is precious in a studio apartment shared by two people.