Special Gifts

So little of running your own business is really appreciated or especially fulfilling. If you're lucky, you get the reward of self-sufficiency, and that's nothing to sneeze at; accomplishment and all that goes with it are great. But when you get the chance to make something especially thoughtful for someone, that's wonderful. I'm doing a custom order (adapting an existing item on the site) meant as a gift for someone, and it makes me so happy to be part of this particular piece. The woman buying it is a special person, and she means it for someone else very special, so I want it to be really pretty. I bought crystals to go on it today in place of some other components, and it's costing me money of my own to make some changes to it, but I'm happily eating the increase, because it's just that important a present, and I want it to be especially pretty. It's opportunities like this that make all the spam experiences worth it. :)