A quiet reliance on tea through the day and misfortune in Scrabble — these are just two things I have in common with my Mum and my Granny Lalage. Now, a lovely little project in the Hackett home has woven another thread between us: the River Running card shop.
Using her own designs as well as those of Granny and my own, Mum has left her painter’s studio and thrown herself into producing, scanning, editing, emailing, ringing, ordering, comparing, double-checking, calculating, reordering… resulting in four fabulous ranges of postcards on her brand new Etsy shop site.
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Sitting down at my desk and creating a few drawings of my own has been good fun, in a painstakingly slow sort of way! Predictably, they are entirely botanical.
Of course, like any “cottage industry” things could fold over immediately & the River Running card shop may simply be remembered as a lengthy, fruitless exercise in mother-and-son mathematics & problem-solving. To be honest, if it is I’ve still rather enjoyed it! Time will tell, but whatever the outcome I couldn’t be prouder of my twenty-first century Mum and the beautiful cards she has made.
