The Card Shop

The Card Shop is a reasonably conventional greetings card and gift shop on Clifton Street, stocking a good range of cards, gift wrap and associated decorations including a good selection of sparkly bags with tags and boxes as well as balloons. Gifts are of the mass produced, ‘candy coated’ variety and come in the form of cuddly toys and ornaments that generally come under the heading of ‘cute’.
You have probably guessed by now that ‘cute’ is not exactly what I go for when considering buying presents for a friend, and so in general I give the gift selection a pretty wide birth. Nevertheless, this is a large shop that carries a broad selection of cards, some of which I really quite like. I prefer to receive handmade cards of the artsy variety, but I don’t like to impose my tastes on others, and so instead I opt to buy cards that I think the recipient will like. Here I can buy all manner of cards to suit every occasion and person. There’s everything from bawdy and comical to touching and floral.