Thank-you Cards

As my workmates now know, I’m not a big fan of receiving thank-you cards. On first hit it’s nice but then I feel obligated to hold on to them, to display them, to not throw them away… Argh. On the other hand, my workmates seem to love receiving them. Sigh.

So I made up some thank-you cards for the IT office to use. I came in on a Saturday and wandered around taking a gob of photos of things in and around the office that had some IT’ness to them. I then chose 5 of them and uploaded them to Shutterfly and ordered the Set of 12 Note Cards for $7.99 (now $9.99). I liked the fact that I could order matte or glossy and so I was able to choose the finish to match the photo but I was disappointed that I couldn’t add any text to the card like you can with the larger cards. I would have liked to add a caption for the photo on the inside. The quality of the product was stunning – much nicer than I expected. I then took my 5 orders and shuffled them together and distributed them to the 5 of us in IT.

Having the cards on my desk makes me think of opportunities to thank people, which is a good thing. I also bought some Pilot Petit1 fountain pens from JetPens for everyone to make it fun to write.