Saving memories

In creating happiness, I produce happiness through creating memories with greeting cards and other crafts. This car is a small token that I have found over the years that I truly enjoy receiving like I still have every single greeting card that green card I've ever received as an adult from birthday cards to graduation cards to Mother's Day cards to just because holiday cards. I still have all of them. I've always found value in these cards, I started trying to create cards for others.

I am trying to create a greeting card business because I've always had a love of graphics and a love of poetry, so I thought why not combine them into a card that you can send to your loved ones. There is a reason the greeting card industry is a billion-dollar industry, people love receiving greeting cards, people love receiving messages of love, love messages of aspiration, messages of sympathy, and messages of anything coming from the heart.

Focused on heartfelt messaging, there have been religious messages to empower people, to inspire people, and there are also messages on cards that are just humorous that are just meant to bring a bright spot to your day. There are greeting cards that highlight music and highlight your voice. That’s why I love greeting cards because they can take so many ways, and you can do so much with a heartfelt message, that's why I’m starting a card-making business.

The little things are what many people used to get through their day. And to me, that's what greeting cards are, no matter if they're E-cards or traditional cards they are just a token that shows that someone was thinking about you or that they wanted to express a specific message to you. Greeting cards can be an inexpensive gift but it makes an enormous mark on people's hearts. When making greeting cards people use different tools, I have a computer; I have different computer software programs for making greeting cards. I have different paper stock. I have an embossing machine. I have a cricket machine, a laminator, scissors with different cuts, pens, markers, and colored pencils.

A craft that I enjoy is color journaling. I realized for me coloring allows me to have a therapeutic filter which I add to my journaling. I find things to color and based on even if it's just coloring words and then I do journaling around whatever I color, or sometimes I will journal and write and then I will find a picture and relate it to what I wrote about and then color it. I have a rather extensive collection of coloring pencils, markers, and pens which I use when I do this journaling. It allows me to be more creative and still write my ideas. I also incorporate newspaper clippings and magazine clippings like a collage in my journals.

Growing up, my mother was a crafter. She has a synthetic floral business. She has had it since before I was born. She's had it for a very long time although she has done it part-time and in the recent years since she's retired, she's started taking on a more full-time road doing that. Growing up, my mother was a crafter she has a synthetic floral business that she's paid since before I was born so she's had it for a very long time although she has done it parts time and in the recent years since she's retired she's started taking on a more full-time role doing that.

She was always the person who put love in crafting in my heart. The 1st craft she ever taught me to crochet which I did more than once I got pregnant with my son. My son's grandmother taught me how to knit, so I learned to knit. We are the three of us. The first project we did together was a mixture of crochet and knitted blanket for my son, which he still has to this day, but that's one thing that brought me so many memories. That's something even both women are in different States What I would do is would get a few items from my mother and she would do different from patterns and then I would have his grandmother in North Carolina do other patterns and then I was the one who marched the two the crochet in the knit because I knew how to do both mediums because each woman taught me the different the two different crafting techniques.

My brother's wife is the one who introduced me to scrapbooking. She and I were pregnant at the same time. She had gotten me a photo album and she got me some of the little scrapbooking old scrapbooking trinkets to add to the pictures and just having those few things that started me when getting the different emblems and things like that to put on the pictures and from there my love grew and I started using the scrapbooking aspect in different other aspects of my crafting.

The question comes up of which craft I like to do the most is very hard for me to say because each craft that I do it kind of almost connects me with a woman that is important in my life when I crochet I feel a lot more connected to my mom when I knit I feel a lot more connected to my son's grandmother when I do my scrapbooking I feel a lot more connected to my brother's wife so and when I do my greeting card that is that connects me to my love of poetry and my love of the visual arts which I feel like is a combination of all these women and some other people I've interacted within my life. Each craft for me represents a memory.