Prior to my employment at Gently Spoken, I held the uninformed belief that most items you see on store shelves are manufactured by machines. After all, are we not living in the 21st century? Weren't we supposed to have flying cars and robots by now? How else could a whole row of uniform products be produced?
Soon after my arrival, I learned the answer to just what (or, more accurately, "who") exactly would be assembling these fine products: me! (Well, not just me; more like a whole team of mes!)
This is our Sweet Peas of Inspiration for New Moms affirmation can, not seen on our shelves or in our catalogs for a while:
During the yearly rite of inventory, we discovered some miscellaneous parts for these beauties, allowing me to assemble a few more for some lucky customers.
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| The warehouse is home to many treasures. |
This is a very scaled down version of assembly, compared with what's usually involved in rolling out a new line, but I thought I'd give you an idea of how one of our products is made. A few big steps are missing here, like the actual sizing and ordering of the cans, design of the wraps and affirmation cards, adhesion of the wraps to the cans, etc etc!
Each Sweet Pea can comes with 31 affirmation cards (or "peas") inside. Careful consideration is given to the order in which the cards are stacked.
Something is needed to hold all those little cards in place, and that's where shred comes in!
Colored shred is a fun and fairly easy way to fill up space and add a bit of spring to your creations, but I'll warn you now: you will be finding pieces of it on the carpet for seemingly ages afterward!
After an afternoon of unwrapping empty cans, stuffing said cans with shred, setting a stack of cards inside, then adding a bit more shred before capping them off, I had created this satisfying tower of completed Sweet Peas:
These are the very last of the last Sweet Peas cans, so if you're looking for a sweet gift for a new mom, contact us soon before they're gone!
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