As far as business ventures go, I wish the blood of Charou ran thicker in my veins.
Is this the kind of thing you'd willingly hand your credit card details over for?
My first chug of entrepreneurial spirit was some time in Std4 (Grade 6 to you young 'uns) with a little start-up called "Cupid Aint Stupid".
I dealt primarily in matters-of-the-heart and would write custom love-letters and poems for a very reasonable R2 each. I was also the purveyor of fine hand-made twinsaver tissue flowers .
I made enough to buy a few chip rolls at break-time, but the business wasn't sustainable.
The type of people who didn't write their own love-letters were also the types who promised to pay up tomorrow. And the market for tissue flowers was soon overtraded after I gave tissue-flower making lessons for R3.
I never sold much else after that, apart from a few sticker sheets in Std5 and my old Archie comics much later on (a transaction I now regret).
But now I've hit on this idea of customising notebooks.
I'm a huge notebook phan-girl. I'm moleskine-verskrik, and the one I'm currently desecrating is a gorgeous leather-bound volume from Florence with the giglio embossed on the cover.
But I don't quite know where to start. Sites like cafepress.com offer exactly the type of arrangement I think would work for me, but after exchange rates, the final product is too expensive for the average blog reader to consider [Would you pay something like $12 for a notebook just because it had something clever on the cover?].
Are there any South African based print-on-demand set-ups?
Here are a few of the notebook cover ideas, taken from some of my more obscure blog-moments over the years:
Is this the kind of thing you'd willingly hand your credit card details over for?
