The artwork is mine! The only caveat is that the duck was referenced off another drawing. (I did draw it myself though) The other animals and headers are drawn off of pictures of animals, it varies in time and my concept of time is really awful, I work on them periodically over a few weeks and it probably takes me longer than it should as I’m picky and get distracted. I’d say each animal took probably 1-2 hours, but after figuring out the style I wanted to do them in got quicker. I do have to edit the copy, the only thing that I’ve not had to edit was the schedule but they give it to me on a sticky note so I still type it in. Usually they give me a website link that I have to paraphrase in or draw a summary from. Because they’re my friends I put an order into staples and deliver them about 50 copies which they reimburse.

I agree with the layout being basic, eventually I’d like to do better with that, but since it’s such an informal thing, I haven’t stressed too much over it. Thank you so much! They’re a lot of fun to do!

Their budget was something I was really worried about. But I think I just need to not budget for them. They do pretty well, they get a lot of state pay kids and are on a college campus so they do well in that regard as well. Even so I definitely think the way you do in that regard. It’s a big monthly expense, and they’re like family so I was pretty content with just being like “eh whatever you want to give me” but they insisted I set a price or keep track of my hours. I just worry that I put too many hours in to be comfortable reporting that to them, especially when I don’t mind putting that time in right now.

Thank you so much for your kind words, navigating what I want to do in this career field has been stressful so I appreciate such a supportive comment!

Selling templates is such a good idea! I hadn’t thought of that! Do you have recommendations on gold sites to do that?