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I recently made another birthday card for a member of my family. She is a goth and loves anything gothic, steampunk, fantasy-like, etc. So the card I made was in the style that I thought she would like. I made it in less than an hour. From imagining it, to designing it, to putting it together.
She really liked it and she insists that I should sell my cards online. There are a few websites that specialise in selling hand made crafts. Which would be a great idea, however:
1) I simply don’t have the time. I get home too late and have to go to bed too early. The only spare time I have, I don’t “waste” by sitting on a desk (okay, I do.. facebook and spaniards are NOT wasting time…)
2) I don’t mind making 1, 2 or 10 cards just for fun. If for whatever reason I don’t finish a certain card, I can always pop into Clintons and buy a pretty one instead. No one knows any different and no one gets hurt. But making cards as a business has other implications. At the point when some one is expecting a bespoke-hand-made card from me, if I don’t deliver not only do I get unsatisfied customers, but also puts pressure on me not to disappoint people.
The thing is that the idea is still fluttering in my head. I wonder if it would be worth trying.
Wandering around the web earlier I found the blog of a girl who makes gorgeous cards and sells them in one of the websites that I was talking about earlier. Seeing her blog has been a great inspiration to make me take a decision and I think that I am going to give it a go. I can create several types of cards, from Christmas to birthday cards, and when I’ve got a few I can upload them to the website and see what happens….
Of course it will only be a test and I don’t expect to make any money out of it, although if could at least break even and not LOSE money then that would be fantastic.
Apart from this little adventure that I have set myself for this year, my next project will be a Steampunk birthday card for Chris later on this month… Let’s see what I come up with!
Driving home.
Spotless blue sky.
Hints of pink.
And violet.
And orange.
And purple.
And a sudden feeling that spring is coming my way.
And then I am happy.
