🔥 How I Joined the Zone™ (and Why You Should Too, Even If No One's Listening Yet) 🔥

Let me paint a picture for you, babe: It’s 11:47 p.m., I’m elbow-deep in BBQ glaze, my kid’s science project is due in 8 hours, and I’m arguing with myself over the kerning on a “Eat a Dick” apron design. You know—normal creator chaos. But somewhere between caramelized trauma and Canva meltdowns, I realized something: I needed a way to get the vision out without also having to learn supply chain logistics like I’m auditioning for Shark Tank.

Enter: Shandize™.

🌀 The Shandize Zone™ Is Where The Weird Lives

Shandize gave me my own corner of the internet—a “Zone”—to be loud, unhinged, and unapologetically real. No gatekeepers. No begging an Etsy algorithm to show me mercy. Just a clean, curated place where I can:

• Drop merch that slaps (and maybe traumatizes an auntie or two)

• Post bloggy chaos in my real voice (GPT-powered if I’m emotionally unavailable)

• Tell stories, push products, and scream into the void

• Earn royalties without holding inventory or printing shirts in my garage like a bootleg printer goblin

They took care of the tech, the upload, the mockups, the margins—and I just got to show up, yell into the internet, and make stuff that actually feels like me.

👀 Who This Is For (Yes, You)

Creators. Ranters. People who yell into spice cabinets and tell jokes at funerals. If you’ve got a vibe and a voice, this was built for your chaotic brilliance. Artists, musicians, food lovers, girlies with 14 drafts of a zine—they want your world, not your perfection.

💻 How It Worked for Me

I emailed Shandize my logo (that big bold Eats With April™ mood), a bio that read like a drunk Yelp review, and some merch ideas I scribbled on a napkin during Anden’s baseball game. They sent me a form, I clicked a couple things, and boom—I had a Zone. A real, living, breathing shop/blog/brand altar with my DNA all over it.

No inventory. No up-front money. Just me, my sauce, and my stories.

🖼️ You’ll Need:

• A logo (PNG/AI/PSD—yes, they’ll help if you’re not Adobe royalty)

• A short bio (your version of an About Me, not your therapist’s notes)

• Merch ideas or product vibes (optional but fun)

• Signed permission saying, “Yes, this is mine. No, I’m not stealing fonts from 2010 Tumblr.”

📩 Wanna Join?

Email: submissions@shandize.com
Subject Line: [Your Zone Name] Submission
Attach: Your stuff. Be weird. Be spicy. Be unhinged. They love it.

Final Thought from Your Auntie April:

You don’t need 10k followers or a marketing degree. You just need a point of view and a little unfiltered rage. Whether your merch sells 2 shirts or 200, you’ve still carved out a corner of the universe that’s all yours. That’s power. That’s legacy. That’s exactly what the Zone™ was made for.

Get in the Zone. Get loud. Let them eat your merch.

💥 Shandize™ is where the myth meets the merch.
💥 And April’s already cookin’.