My wife has been making cards for many years, long before I met her, in fact and she has had some small success selling them to family and friends. I like what she does very much so I suggested that we could make a proper business out of this if we pulled together and worked hard at it. So for the last year we have been slowly creating our little empire, still only selling to those closest to us but always with a view to something more. We have a Twitter account and a Facebook page, using the name Robin's Myth, which are both steadily attracting followers and likers, respectively and even have a verbal contract of sorts with a well known card retailer but for some reason just couldn't get our act together to make it work. Until now.
Later this morning I'm going to take nearly 100 handcrafted cards, etc to a table sale at our 4 year olds preschool. We don't expect it to be a massive event but it will be the first time we've put them on display for people to buy. Normally my wife receives an order from someone we know for a particular occasion such as a birthday or Christmas and then she creates whatever is desired, usually for very little money. This time is very different for us as we've had to create a large quantity of cards for stock, we're both happily exhausted with the result and the only downside of the event is that my wife cannot attend herself as she works on a Saturday.
I wish she could be there too, to interact with our customers and have a little banter with them because I think she'd be great at it. If you're in the Harrow area between 10:00 and noon pay a visit to Trinity church on Hindes Road and I'll flirt as much money out of you as decently possible. You won't be disappointed with your purchases (or my flirting) because you can't get cards like these anywhere else. If you can't make it then follow these links to Twitter & Facebook and put in an order or just say hello, we don't bite and we're always happy to spend a few minutes being sociable.
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