A rent-free imaginary shop is yours for today. Do you want guests to sit down and talk, or wander freely and leave when they like? Should the shelves hold old friends built to last, or new things that catch a second glance? This time you're opening a shop, you're really exploring how you like to share what you love.
Four paper-cut illustrations ask you to choose a storefront, stock, hospitality, and a window display. Storefront and hospitality together decide how close you let people get; stock and window display together decide durable versus novel. Any tie defaults to open conversation and durable stock. The four results are original shop stories — they don't judge whether you could actually run a business, and they don't read the pictures as proof of your personality.
By the end you'll take home a question worth sitting with: how do you share what you love without it turning into a sales pitch, a pile of stuff, or one more thing to keep up with? You don't have to open a real shop, and you don't have to buy anything new. Start with one small object you already use often, or one invitation you can explain in a sentence, and try out the kind of shop-window life you'd actually want to keep.
