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The Painful Truth About Customs

Posted by Kira Karpinski on

The Painful Truth About Customs

I quit taking customs, again.   Why on earth, would a custom tack maker quit taking custom orders?  Well, I’ll explain, and there are a couple reasons.  The first and easiest to explain is creative burnout.  It is extremely difficult to create other people’s “visions”.   I can tell you that it’s disheartening to be excited about the creative ideas you come up with to translate someone’s written messages, only to hear, “that’s not what I had in mind,” or that’s nice, but can you do it more like this?”  To the average person, that doesn’t seem terrible, but as...

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