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Ok so here are the latest pics of the shop as at 23rd November, 2010.

As you can see we have been pretty busy improving the place.

Paperchase coming to Shrewsbury!

Wanted to take a moment to welcome Paperchase to Shrewsbury.

You guys are my favourite card shop in the world (apart from mine, obviously!) and I wish you all the best in the town.

Far from viewing Paperchase as competition I believe they bring something different to the mix. More importantly their arrival, like the arrival of quite a few growing national retail chains, is a reflection of the fact that Shrewsbury is one of the great survivors of the recession, a local county town with a large catchment area and a visitor town with both a national and international catchment area.

Never been to Shrewsbury? Do pay us a visit.

Paul.

Video of my shop.

Took a video of the Green Ginger shop this week.

It's OK at best, I must admit, but it does give an idea of what we are all about to anyone who has not visited us in person.

Essentially we sell lots of lovely cards - mostly from smaller publishers - and these are supplimented by some of the more usual bits and pieces you will find in other cards shops - and also a few local items of interest.

As you can see there is still lots of room for the shop to grow. There is no rush and over the last 2 years something new has been added almost every week as we reinvest the profits. Essentially we'll just keep doing this until we are full to the rafters and can't get any more in anywhere - so it's always worth a visit!!!!

we look forward to seeing you soon. :)

Norman Hood.

Part of the display of caricature cards by artist Norman Hood.

I sell over 150 designs of Norman's cards. Just a few of these are on my website http://www.greengingercards.com/ but I will be adding a lot more of them soon when I can find the time!

Norman is one of the finest artists in the country and is constantly updating his designs.

In the shop we also keep a catalogue of even more of his work so you can order those lines I don't actually keep in stock.

New line!

Just in this week is a range of personalised cards on a spinner from a company called Paper Island.

These feature cards which are, frankly, a bit cheeky (!) and which have peoples' names on them or occupations such as Plumber or Builder.

They are £1.50 each.

Halcyon cards back in stock!

Finally the Halcyon cards are back in stock.

Formerly produced by the well loved company in Wem, Shropshire, Halcyon stopped trading when a nearby fire spread into their warehouse. The cards are now being produced true to their original designs by a Devon based company.

Thank you to everyone!

We have just had two really good weeks at Green Ginger and I would simply like to thank all customers old and new for their support. I know a lot of you have started to resd this blog.

You can print out some vouchers to use in the Shrewsbury shop if you go to the website and look for the link at the top and bottom of the page.

www.greengingercards.com

Thank you again.

Paul

New stand.

A couple of pics of the new stand from EKard of Derbyshire.

It contains embroidered cards with names on and also purses, bookmarks, keyrings and glasses cases with initials on.

Improvements to the website

I have added a 'Discount Corner' to the website so I can put all my bargains in one place. This area really is about getting customers new and old to keep coming back to the site to see what is new, so I shall make sure that the prices on there are really keen. Take a look at www.greengingercards.com

Also that annoying pop up has gone - on some older software it just wouldn't go away when asked to for some reason. You can now subscribe to the free newsletter at the bottom of any page on the website. Please do.

Paul.

Been to the spring fair today.

Battled through the snow to get to the spring fair today and I have ordered lots of lovely things to arrive from time to time as the year progresses. I'll post here as new things come in so watch this space as they say.

Thanks to those people who responded to my request to let me know you are out there and sent me a 'hello'. Once again email me at hello@greengingercards.com and a particular thank you to Julian, my mentor, good to know you are still following this.

Also a hello to Terry at EKards who had gone to all the bother of watching the video on the website. Which reminds me I must update that one of these days, the shop looks better than that now. Job to do number 5003!!!

Young girl cards back in stock!

The young girl Name Cards are now back in stock. Sorry for the delay in printing. Problem solved now.
www.greengingercards.com

Valentines and Mothering Sunday

Valentines Day cards are now out on display and there is a superb range, though I say so myself. The only exception is the Fiance and Fiancee cards of which there seems to be something of a shortage this year. We do have some of these on sale but there are also plenty of Someone Special, One-I-Love, Woman-For-Me and all that in stock as suitable alternatives.

Most of the Mothering Sunday cards are also out now, although we will get the full range out after the Valentines come off.

The shop looks very nice again now and new stock is literally arriving daily.

Paul

Sale time!!

This year we are holding a jolly good sale in the real world shop at Shrewsbury. This starts at 9am on Saturday 27th December. Everything in the shop will be on sale at half the original selling price. Yes, that means all the cards including Birthday, Anniversary and so on and so on and all other products as well. And yes that includes the name cards, which have been sold at £1.25 each since December 1st and will now be half that price until the end of the sale!

The sale will run until we change our minds about it - so hurry to Shrewsbury as soon as you can!!!

The plan is that by the end of January at the latest we will have totally restocked the shop with lovely, current spanking brand new cards and other items. As the others fall around us we hope to be incubating a "high street name" of the future! That said we know it is going to be really - really, really - tough going this year, so it really would be good to see you... As they say, every sale counts!

Happy new year from all of us at Green Ginger Cards.

Welcome to my blog

Our retail shop is located in the Pride Hill Centre in the beautiful Shropshire town of Shrewsbury.

Shrewsbury is a stop off place on the way to or from Mid and North Wales and the town also attracts many thousands of visitors each year in its own right. This is particularly true during the annual FLOWER SHOW and FOLK FESTIVAL, both held in August.

The town is a RIVER TOWN and also has a large number of black and white Tudor buildings which are quite simply scattered all over the place.

GREEN GINGER CARDS is a 1,250 sq ft shop owned by myself, Paul Howl. There are just three of us here - me, my wonderful employee ELAINE, and DANIEL who helps us out on Saturdays. Plus all the lovely people who are always popping in to look at the cards or just say 'Hello'.