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A Craft workers Tale

Amy worked full time as a secretary in a bank, she longed to be able to give up her job, for the last six months she had been attending craft fairs, where she sold her work that she made in her spare time......

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Greetings cards, A bit of history
The first examples of Greetings cards appeared in Germany around the fifteen century, given at Christmas called, Andachtsbilder.
Henry Cole, the first director of London's Victoria and Albert Museum has been credited the inventor of the modern day Greeting card,
The story is along the lines that each year he would send a hand written Christmas best wishes letter to all his family and friends,
come 1843 being pressed for time he commissioned a member of the Royal Academy to lithograph and hand colour one thousand copies of a card (shown above), which was then sent to Cole's relations, and friends.
At around the same time the Penny post was also introduced making the sending of cards affordable and ever more popular, right up until today where here, in UK five thousand cards are bought every minute.

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Greetings cards, The future
Now you know where they came from, just where are they going, now in the 21st century, will the Internet along with e-cards and phone texting have any affect on every day sales of cards?, according to results by sociological study by Dr. Barry Wellman, professor of Sociology
at the University of Toronto, and Dr. Keith Hampton, professor of Urban Studies and Planning at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The answer is a resounding NO, the Internet is helping to foster the use of traditional forms of communication by enabling a whole new generation to expand its network of family and friends it wishes to stay in touch with over time. This study confirms that the increased use of the Internet and e-mail will, in the long run, bolster the greeting card industry.
The Internet promotes communication, and of course communication is what relationships are all about, an increased number of relationships is naturally good news for the greeting card market.