Art Centre Greeting Cards

Abdul Rehman Street is always a bit of a mess with people and carts everywhere. We’ve been here at Art Centre Greeting Cards on the first floor of building 312 for quite a while now. Being so close to Crawford Market means there’s never a quiet moment outside our windows. People come up the stairs looking for all sorts of cards. Some want fancy ones for a wedding, while others are just looking for a simple birthday greeting. We keep a lot of stock in the back rooms. It gets pretty crowded sometimes with all the boxes of envelopes and paper stacked up high. We spend most of our day just going through the new stock or helping a customer find a very specific shade of red or gold. The lighting in the back isn't the best but we know exactly where every box is kept. It’s a family business, really. We don’t have a flashy website or any of that modern stuff, just the physical shop. If you’re walking past the market, you can find us easily enough, though the stairs are a bit steep for some. Most of our regulars have been coming here for years and they know how we work. We just try to get the orders right and keep things moving. Sometimes the big delivery trucks block the whole street, which makes getting new paper in a real headache. But that's just life in this part of town. We usually open up quite early and stay until the market traffic dies down.