The CZ Blog: Sasha's diary of life behind the scenes at your favourite family sweatshop

Ok, so it’s not so much a strike as Mum and Auntie going on a planned holiday. But still, who signed them off going away in DECEMBER in the middle of our busiest Christmas of all time!!!To be fair, it’s gone quite well, we’ve got into a rhythm and Nani has genuinely been incredible. I’ve become a mug pressing machine and have yet to print a single one upside down! Although my brother did point out that the kitchen now resembles a crack den as it's basically 80% boxes and 20% stray packing peanuts. It feels like each week is...

Since our recent success i.e., finally overtaking Clintons, Nani keeps warning me not to be a “big head”, so I figured I’d humble myself and share my top 5 business fails so far 😂🙈. Let me know if you have a favourite fuck up, number 4 definitely caused the most tension 🙃💁🏾‍♀️. Selling 20k cards to a major retailer and convincing every person I’d ever met to help us pack them, only to make like 2p in profit a card because I didn’t do the maths properly 🙃 Getting threatened with legal action by M&S despite having an actual law...

What a week!! So we’ve been in a long-standing (admittedly, one-sided) battle with Clinton’s for a few years now and we finally beat them! They've got 14.4k followers and we managed to shoot up to a whooping 14.5k all thanks to a card referencing Santa’s ball sack 😂🙈 I posted our “sorry-your-December-birthday-is-overshadowed-by an-old-man- with-a-massive-sack” card and it went absolutely nuts. Turns out there's a lot of people suffering with December birthdays, we had 4m views on Tiktok, 3m views on Instagram, loads of new followers and over 1000 orders in a week  🤯🤯🤯. The majority of which came from The States so God...

If you follow us on Instagram, you’ll know I’ve been referring to my secret/invisible boyfriend for about a year now. Spoiler: he’s real and we broke up. 😭😭 It was one of those grim wrong-timing situations and we couldn't find  a way to continue that worked for both of us. I annoyingly don't hate him and genuinely wish him all the best. I almost rather he cheated or something so we could all collectively set fire to his house 🙃. This week has been pretty brutal tbh, but there has been some iconic moments. Personal highlights included crying so much...

Hello and welcome to your weekly ramblings of a deranged sweatshop owner trying to destroy Clinton’s one card at a time. Right, it’s official, CHRISTMAS is finally done! We’ve got cards, we’ve got jumpers but most importantly some of the most hilariously awful video content in Christmas history coming your way 💁🏽‍♀️💁🏽‍♀️. I tried to film a family catwalk with Nani 🙈 and omg bless her soul turns out she thought I genuinely meant walk like a cat 😭😭. I was crying but also trying not to because she was being adorable. I explained we don’t need her to do...