Roghan's penpalling & small business journey
Hello! I'm Roghan, a 15 year old from Tamilnadu. I'm currently in class 10 and my favorite subjects are Physics, Chemistry and history. I love learning languages and i can speak Kannada, Tamil, Hindi, English, French and German. I'm also learning Russian, Greek, Indonesian and a fictional language known as High Valyrian. My hobbies are a never ending list where penpaling, journaling, calligraphy, cooking, illustrating are a few of them. My biggest goal in life is to study in Germany and Canada! I also own a small business called Place Of Joy Shop which I'm running for more than a year now. Managing all these stuff with my 10th studies is quite hectic but I enjoy what I do :)
What's your favourite thing about sending & receiving letters?
My favourite thing about writing letters are meeting new friends and I guess writing letters are the best way in which one can spend time for someone. I'm writing letters for more than year now and I've made a lot of new friends in this time and have exchanged happiness. Talking about recieving letters, we can never imagine the journey of the envelope from the sender to us. It first goes into the postbox, then to the hands of postal workers and it boards a vehicle, then a plane of needed and comes to the hands of our postman and when he comes to house and rings the doorbell is absolute happiness! In this modern era, recieving letters are extremely rare and is considered old fashioned but after picking up this hobby, Ive recieved letters very often and a letter from far away countries on a day when you're stressed or sad makes you the most happiest one.
What's your style of letter writing?
I usually write long letters with decorated writing papers. My favourite theme to wipe a letter is vintage! I mostly use vintage goodies to make letters! When I start to write the letter, I sit with juice/water, play songs and write the letter! Since I'm in 10th class now, I don't get much time to write letters but I find time on weekends!
Things which you love apart from penpalling & crafting?
I love calligraphy! I started to practice calligraphy 4 years ago after seeing them in various places and since my handwriting is also already looking pretty 😅 I could do calligraphy easily! And as I already mentioned before, I love learning languages! I use the app Duolingo to learn languages and I'm currently learning 7 languages from it! I also love cooking. I learnt to cook from my mom and YouTube! The one thing which inspired me to cook is the MasterChef show!
Any tips for the other people who would like to start penpalling?
To start penpaling, you can find people from websites and of you're young and if your parents didn't allow you to share address with a stranger, you can start penpalling with your cousins who live in a different City :)
About your shop ...
I started an online store on the 4th May 2020 where I used to sell e-books. Then I thought to sell physical products and opened an other store in September named as Place Of Joy Shop. I sell book boxes, stickers, art prints and planning to launch more. I launched Season 2 in my shop recently and I'm getting ready for the season 3! When I started my shop last year to get rid of the boredom, I never thought I'd sell physical products out of my illustrations!
Any tips for the other people who want to start there own small business?
If you're planning to start a business, just go ahead! Make sure that you can fund yourself for the raw materials and you can start your shop with a website or you can use instagram! Try to fulfill your first few orders in 2 or 3 days so it'll give a good view on your shop! You can host a rep search our something similar to gain new audience.
About my social media, currently I use Instagram, YouTube and Pinterest. I'm running my Instagram and YouTube accounts for more than a year now sharing my creative journey. You can find me on instagram @mail_from_roghan and my shop account @place_of_joy_shop.
My youtube is Mail from Roghan and Pinterest @roghanarts
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