I love stickers. But I don't have any place to put stickers, and I have a pile of pretty vinyl piles in my drawer. But there is nothing more fun than ordering something on the Internet and getting a few stickers as an extra, or getting a great hand-painted sticker at an anime or gaming convention.

I have always envied those who can draw. My talent lies more in the written word than in illustration, but I've spent hours scrolling through Etsy pages and marveling at the talent of artists. I want to be one! I want to be a cool artistic queen and sell fun stickers of pandas drinking buckwheat and to-fu capybaras riding witches' brooms around the globe. I want to pack as many designs as intricately as possible onto a single sheet of paper, carefully cut out each one, and tuck them away in an organized office where the kotatsu-core TikTok can show them off.

Sadly, I don't think I'll ever be artistic enough to realize that dream in the real world. So screw it, let's just play Sticky Business and forget about being a journalist for a few hours. That's fine! Let's experience it firsthand in Spellgarden's cozy creative management sim.

When I opened my sticker store to the masses, I didn't have much to start with. I started slowly, racking my brains about what to create. I shrunk down a little tea graphic, placed it next to a frog's head, named it Frogtea, and called it "Frogtea. Perfect. This is what true artistry looks like. You can put colored borders of different thicknesses on the stickers, rotate the pieces, and stack them however you like. Right now I can only print stickers on old white paper, but a quick peek in the upgrade store reveals fun holographic films of all shapes and sizes waiting for me.

Despite opening the store with almost zero products, several kind people have already happily bought and shared their stories. Some of them have even asked me to make them a specific design after they have ordered several times. For example, I made prehistoric merchandise for the son of a dino obsessed father, or buckwheat-themed stickers for two of my closest friends.

I would make a sticker of two dinosaurs kissing each other, and finish it off by embroidering the word "COOL" underneath. My vision of a panda drinking buckwheat noodles is now a reality. Not the best sticker by any means, but my new client friends loved it. Throw in the extra stickers I'm trying to shift to make room for the design frame and the lollipops and dumplings as a thank you.

I was quite excited about the entire workflow of the sticker business: designing, printing, and carefully packaging orders. They could choose the packaging for each parcel, mixing and matching different colors of paper and confetti to best fit the color palette of each customer's order.

Playing more with stickers and selling more of them has allowed me to get more shapes and props. I've had my sticker store for almost 4 hours now and am becoming a master at it. Combine cute animals, food, and buzzwords like "cute," "YOU," and "crunchy." Put a heart-shaped holographic film on top and watch everyone come together. Capybaras in my hat are not popular yet. Maybe I'll put in a free capybara and let people witness it in all its glory.