{"id":863,"date":"2012-09-26T19:33:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-26T19:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gingiber.com\/tis-the-season-holiday-cards-some-rambling-2\/"},"modified":"2012-09-26T19:33:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-26T19:33:00","slug":"tis-the-season-holiday-cards-some-rambling-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/?p=863","title":{"rendered":"Tis The Season Holiday Cards & Some Rambling"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nTis The Season…. To Be Jolly Cards<\/a> are now available in the shop<\/a>\n<\/div>\n
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Available in packs of 8 or individually, these illustrated cards are filled with beautiful detailing and gold and black hues. They are perfect card for the holidays.<\/div>\n
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Lately, well, I guess I should say, constantly, I work. I draw. I fill orders. I package. I plan new product. Fill wholesale orders. Return emails. Pretty standard for a small business run out of a spare bedroom.<\/div>\n
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I’ve been thinking about my future. And I know that I next year I am going to make some changes for a better balance in my life. Not sure exactly how it will look, but I want to enjoy life a bit more. Rarely do I really get dressed in the mornings, instead slouching around in pajamas or jeans and a shirt, running around, not able to give either my business nor parenting my full attention at any single given time.<\/div>\n
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I am still planning how next year needs to be different. More time for drawing. More time with my kids. Maybe actually hiring some help. Just a little help with packaging.<\/div>\n
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I’ve also decided not to do any more “flash sales” online. I just finished up a Fab sale. And it went really well. But I knew going into it that it would be my last. For many reasons. Business reasons. Personal reasons. But regardless, I just cannot afford to do them anymore. The prices are so low to customers because I make very little money per item (we are talking only $2 on some items) on the sales. I’ve always liked the idea of reaching a broader audience with these sales, while also allowing long time customers a chance to own Gingiber items for much less.<\/div>\n
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Now, as I am expanding my wholesale side of business, knocking on retailers doors, working on licensing some of my art, I do not want to “cheapen” my brand. I want to strengthen it. These flash sales are good. Especially for me who had invested quite a bit of money in new product development and needed some money quickly. But now I need to think about the big picture.<\/div>\n
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Thanks for reading, friends. Sometimes I just like to write it down. Put it out there.<\/div>\n
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Hope that you like the new Christmas Cards,<\/div>\n
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Stacie<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tis The Season…. To Be Jolly Cards are now available in the shop Available in packs of 8 or individually, these illustrated cards are filled with beautiful detailing and gold and black hues. They are perfect card for the holidays. Lately, well, I guess I should say, constantly, I work. I draw. I fill orders. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.gingiber.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}