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What is your value?  How does anyone know what their worth is? I have been getting a lot of comments lately about my products being under-priced.   Musing on  this, in my head at least, I have narrowed it down to two reasons. 1, I wanted to keep my work accessible to as many people as possible and 2, I don’t value myself much so it’s logical to undervalue the work that I make.  Expanding on point 1, my customer base, I need to realise that not everyone is my customer, and on the second point, that is just a bit sad. Initial sketch for Christmas Cards 2020 2020 and Covid has made me really appreciate my work and what I want to do with my life, what is my career and how do I want to make a living.     Behind any small business there’s someone (normally one person) who makes the product, researches the materials, experiments with techniques, orders resources and stationery to make, wrap and post the product as well as doing all of the administration, ma...