Build a better sympathy card

Saturday was Independent Bookstore Day. Did you celebrate? I certainly did! The good folks at Louisville’s finest horror bookstore, Butcher Cabin Books, asked me to set up shop helping their patrons build a better sympathy card.

Sympathy cards suck, right? At least that’s my experience. They’re sappy and/or overly religious and/or patronizing. For a while I’ve thought that regular people would do a better job making them—and last weekend, I got to put that theory to the test.

I was pleased as punch to see the customers really get into it. With my epic collection of art supplies and stickers, people made sweet cards and sarcastic cards, cards for parents, cards for pets, cards for ancestors they’d never met.

I suspect there will be more death positive arts and crafts in my future…