After a ‘forced’ pause of three months (for wedding/traveling reasons, I’m not going to complain ^^) on my shop, I had several orders when I came back and I begin to see what sells best.
I made a big order of supplies because I want to diversify some more. My biggest frustration since the beginning is not to be able to make nice “scrapbooking-style” cards for my love, being that almost anything that is not simple paper is rejected. BUT I can always make these cards for my shop and my challenge will be to make “flat” versions without glue and so on of the (almost) same cards that can be sent to prison. Because it is easy to spot that most of my clients (only women yet) buy cards for inmates. And honestly I have a huge stock of cards I bought and accumulated for my husband and my pen pals but my choice is limited. Obviously, when it comes to say “I love you” or “Happy Birthday” it is not difficult to find “commonplace” cards, but there are few cards that work with the issue of having a loved one in prison. And for some events it is even more delicate… when I want to send a “To my husband” card and they are all covered with “because I love waking up next to you every morning,” “because you make me dinner every night” and so on and on… needless to say that it does not fit the situation … I want to send a cute card to my husband, I don’t want to make him cry!
Until I get to it, I’m working a little on my calligraphy.
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