soup and...oh my card has arrived

As I write, an inter city link man is hunting through his van for my pack of card related goodies from the craft site. I waited, for a while, all ready to open the door but he disappeared into the bowels of his van and hasn't reappeared.
Still!
How long does it take to find a pack of cards and envelopes? I wouldn't want this man to change a light bulb for me.

(just as well I do it myself).

Well I was going to whinge about soup. Since the advent (years ago) of the whole concept of hearty soups, meals unto themselves, stuffed with vegetable goodness and wholefoody stuff, it's been almost impossible to get a ready made soup which isn't packed to the gills with thick potato wadges and masses of big pasta lumps and further thickened with flour and cornflour and thickening agents. Pick up a pot of any fresh soup in a supermarket and you can see the stodgy, gluey mass of 'heartiness' glued to the bottom of the pot.

Now when I was younger, soup and a sandwich was my absolute favourite lunch. Dead simple, choose your own sani filling and add a quick packet (Knorr were my favourites, spring veg, chicken noodle and another thin one...oh and minestrone. In those days a light scattering of pasta was an unusual treat.). As far as I was concerned, the sani provided the protein and starch and if absolutely unavoidable, the veg. the soup was there to wash it down and add that nice warm, full feeling, and to be pleasantly salty.

So, Waitrose Minestrone, thinned down by half and salted up again with stock powder.

I preferred soup before the EU guidelines on food colourings and flavourings.

Me, I like COLOUR.

Here are the latest card designs*...




Pack of five, mixed, yours for £several...I've no idea. Need to wander round shops and stalls, observing, adding, dividing and multiplying costs, prices, desired profit and other kinds of profit. Oh, that would be expected profit!
What do you think?
And what do you think I should charge per card (picture mounted on nice, white, cream, blue or silver card and neatly packaged in cellophane.) if I were to try getting them displayed in local craft shops?
Any advice? Please :)


*If by some extraordinary chance you are a lurking card design thief, please note these are copyright, me. Or however you're supposed to say it. It says so at the bottom of the blog. It means it. (But if you want to put one on your desk top, that's fine :)
I suppose from now on I would like people to ask before printing their own copies...I will be selling mounted prints too. I can't very well say "except those of you who may have as many as you like because I know you're not going to use them for commercial purposes" cos that would rather undo the whole copyright thing. Other wise I would :)