~ do you ever feel like...?

So here I am again...I think that too many totally peaceful and lonely hours creating, also call for some extroversion and communication in order to be finding this so much wished for "Golden Balance"...
So let me please ask you...do you ever feel like...you are falling in love with.....what you do?
Cause being involved in producing these cards in all ways possible makes me fell this way.

~ from taking the pictures
~ to processing them
~ to finding suppliers for the best recycled paper cards & envelopes sets
~ to caring about the printer's inks and papers
~ to printing them
~ to cutting them one by one in the right size
~ to adjusting them on the cards (now in a new way which allows easier detachment )
~ to creating sets, in order to suggest to you which match nicely with one another
~ to cutting the stripes to tie them in (new) sets of threes
~ to stamping each one with " home made"
~ to creating the paper labels
~ to handwriting on them
~ to finally making their pictures in order for them to listed on an online shop

...have you really ever imagined the detail, care and hours of work that lies behind making such a simple thing as a couple of wishing cards, in an as professional as possible manner, still all done at home, handmade all the way?
Well, before I begun this, I had not ever imagined....

This is what I mean by "I support handmade"...not only do I buy (among other mass production products) handmade as often as I can, but by also throwing into the market my own 100% handmade products.
It's definetely time and energy consuming (and at the beginning costly!) but I simply adore the process and somehow I have a feeling that these cards will be finding many, happy, new owners and/or will be offered as presents to many others.

I'd so much love to know, what makes you fall in love?....other than your beloved others of course...in terms of doing things, from your own work, to your hobbies, to a simple past time, which process is it that makes you feel so grateful for being alive only to have the pleasure of being part of it and enjoying it?

I'll be looking forward to reading your replies, so please do not let me return to an empty comment section tonight!

Before I go, I 'd like to share with you that my most beloved handmade creation ever, my "Love of wire" was hosted at Etsy's Front Page yesterday, thank's to the wonderful treasury curated by the  artist & designer behind Tropical Garden. 

Here is a White Chrsitmas for you to be inspired. Hop here to see it live!

...and goodbying you with los of love, like the one that I feel when I engage in creating processes and wishing you to be finding all those things you adore to do and engage in them!

Ivy ~ xx