Personal Touch Creations,

the online creative arts studio I launched in the early 2000’s from my home in South Carolina, has been accepted into Pepperdine University’s Microenterprise Program in Malibu, California for 2017! This little handmade cards and gifts business has been a light in my life and a source of income in my pocket since I became a stay-at-home mom in 2003.  Since that time it has expanded to include self-publishing, media production and author services for fledgling writers.

 

Now, I know how much moms and teachers (of which I am both) love scrapbooking and such.  I myself spent endless hours watching Crafters Coast to Coast on HGTV back in the day, as well as a favorite little scrapbooking show the DIY channel used to run.  So when I first began writing for Motherhoodlater.com in fall of 2015, it was my intention to mention and promote PTC’s Etsy store.

Even though I didn’t have one.

But I didn’t worry about that because being a very DIY individual, I was used to taking my own photographs and erecting my own websites and online selling venues and things of that nature.  I had my iphone 4S running on all cylinders: taking pictures, making video, recording voiceovers…  I was a one-woman production company.  Unfortunately, once I perused the “aisles” of other people’s Etsy stores, I was overcome with feelings of inadequacy.  I knew my wares were beautiful and well- made, but my photos of said wares… not so much.

This led me to drag my feet for quite some time (let’s see… pre October 2015 to late February 2017 = way too long) as I wanted things to be “perfect” before I unleashed my creativity on the world.  Well, thanks to my creative team at Pepperdine, I finally have an Etsy store : )

Thank you to everyone who has ever ordered or bought a product from me over the years on Personal Touch Creations dot weebly dot com, which is still in existence and serves more as a showcase of my former state of development LOL (Tammy Robbins, Rev. Cardell Lindsay, Mrs. Glidden of the Glidden Paints empire!, Youth Ministries educator Shirley Francis-Salley, Charlie Harris, Mike & Molly’s Reno Wilson, author/journalist/teacher Gloria Lynn Howe…) and a special thanks to my first web designer hip-hop recording artist Adam Powell of Union, SC, and to my dear friend Shari Robinson of Bronx, NY, who helped me come up with the name “Personal Touch Creations” and was influential in its launching 14 yrs ago.

If you enjoy making things by hand stop on by from time to time to see what PTC Studio has to offer.  I am especially excited about an upcoming card-making workshop I am hosting at Pepperdine on April 6 where I will instruct young women on how to design and create their own affirmation and intention cards by hand.

Onward… Upward… Outward!!