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It’s really hard for me to have a definite date of the beginning of A Jar of Pickles. My Etsy was a random thing I started in college because I was making fliers/logos etc for student groups on campus, and my roommates suggested I should put stuff up for fun. It was a very passive project; I’d just design things every couple of months when I felt like it.
Because of this, I never had a “launch date” but the start of Pickles can be marked by a few significant milestones:
I'm so fond of Portland because the first time I visited was for a childhood friend's wedding, and I traveled there with 2 of my besties....
I have been thinking about making letterpress cards for YEARS. Inspired after I went to a letterpress workshop, I reached out to a bunch of letterpress printers in 2015:
Every year I consider it, and every year I chicken out. I am very risk adverse and rarely will take any kind of financial risks with Pickles, even if it's not technically a risk (for example, it took me 5 years to buy a $200 label printer.. lol).
But while I spend lots of time on Pickles in my current job-less state, I am so, so close to taking the leap!
Every year I consider it, and every year I chicken out. I am very risk adverse and rarely will take any kind of financial risks with Pickles, even if it's not technically a risk (for example, it took me 5 years to buy a $200 label printer.. lol).
But while I spend lots of time on Pickles in my current job-less state, I am so, so close to taking the leap!
