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the Artist and Foundress of Viktorina Cards
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Меня зовут Викторина Юрьевна Савельева. |
| Слева Вы видите фотографии из моего семейного альбома. |
| Моя Родина - Украина, где я родилась, выросла, получила |
| образование и имела успешную инженерную карьеру в
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| Украинском институте "Тэжпромэлектронроект", проектируя |
| электроприводы и системы автоматики для прокатных
станов. |
| Занятия искусством и рукоделием было моим хобби, но
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меня также есть диплом художника-оформителя. Пользуясь
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| возможностью, я хочу поблагодарить всех моих коллег,
учителей, |
| родственников, друзей и многих других, кого я когда-либо
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| встречала в той моей счастливой жизни. |
| Так случилось, что с 1995
года я начала свою Новую и
очень |
| интересную
жизнь в Канаде, в прекрасном городе Монреале. |
| Вы
прочтёте ниже о компании Viktorina Cards,
которую я |
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организовала. Большое спасибо организациям,
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официальным лицам и окружающим меня очень
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| симпатичным канадцам, которые помогли мне |
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преодолеть множество трудностей. |
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| My
name is Viktorina Savelieva. |
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the left you see photos from my Family album. |
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My
Motherland is Ukraine,
where
I was
born, raised, |
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educated and had a successful engineering
career |
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at
a Ukrainian Project Institute designing Electrical |
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Drives and Control Systems
for Steel Mills. Arts
and
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Craft were my hobbies, but I also have a Certificate |
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in
Design and Painting. Taking an
opportunity |
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of
this Web Site I want to say
THANK YOU to all |
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my colleagues, teachers, relatives, friends and many others |
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whom I have ever
met in that my happy
life. My
life |
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went in such a way that since 1995 I have been starting
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my New
exciting life in Canada.You
will read below
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about the company Viktorina Cards I have started.
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Many thanks
to the organizations, officials and individuals
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who helped me to start my
New Life in Canada. |
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From
Anna to Anna |
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1. Январь 2001. Время идёт, и я хочу вам
представить мою
талантливую внучку Анну. Она
заинтересовалась
моим бизнесом, и это вдохновляет меня его
продолжать.
Посмотрите на фотографии слева. Анна
унаследовала фамильные черты
своей прабабушки Анны Тимофеевны
Зубковой, старшей сестры моей мамы. Mногообещающая
жизнь этой очень
красивой и
богатой женщины
начиналась в
первые годы 20 века.
Молодая Анна начинает свою многообещающую жизнь в начале
21 века.
2. Январь2005. Поздравляем!!
Анна Савельева - владелица компании Viktorina
Cards! Удачи! Вы можете послать
ей
e-mail
Викторина Савельева.
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1. January 2001.The time is going and I want to introduce you my
talented granddaughter Anna. She wants to become a designer and
shows an interest to my business. This encourages me to continue until
she will be able to take all the responsibilities. Look at
the picture on the left. Anna inherited family traits of her grand-grandmother (older sister of my mother) Anna. She was a beautiful
and rich Russian woman who started her expected to be exciting life in the beginning
of 20th century. Young Anna is starting her exciting life
in the beginning of
21st century.
2.January 2005.
Congratulations! Anna Savelyeva - the owner of Viktorina Cards! All The
Best! You could send her an
e-mail
Viktorina Savelieva.
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About The Company
Viktorina Cards |
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Мои русские друзья
могут прочесть о компании Viktorina Cards,
открыв этот линк:
https://amazzzingcards.com/viktorina/cards/card1.htm |
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The
pictures below are taken at National Stationery
Show, |
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New
York 2001. You could view them here |
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We
began our business making handmade greeting cards in March 1997 in |
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Montréal, Québec, Canada. We started selling our cards to gift stores, specialty
stores, |
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bookstores, and other select stores. As
our business grew, we started to make cards |
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according to the customer's needs
and inserting personalized
text depending on the |
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occasion. For example,
we started making
original collections of cards, |
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including wedding anniversaries,
seasonal greetings, dogs, cats, fish, swans, ducks, |
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butterflies,
birds, etc., with more collections to be added in the coming
months. For |
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corporate clients, we can make a card with your company logo and add a
unique design custom-made for you that can be used for
promotions. This kind of cards can |
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be
a very effective tool in any marketing campaign. We
make greeting cards and other |
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cards by
hand using collage mixed with different media. We
use a variety of |
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materials including dried flowers, beads, buttons,
ribbons, lace and many other |
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materials to create elegant and stylish cards. We
are launching this online handmade |
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greeting card shop, so that customers can
purchase cards from several distinctive |
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collections at their convenience, directly from
this site. |
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The website story: |
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I started this business in 1997 and realized
very soon that |
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I cannot have a serious business without
having an on line card catalogue. I was already able to create web pages |
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to represent my products and just
started working on that. I was thinking about what to do next to go
further with my business idea, |
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when two guys appeared from nowhere and made
me a proposition to help with search engine ranking. |
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At that time I did not have any
knowledge about website promotion, networking and e-commerce. They agreed to
work with me. |
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The names of two quite remarkable fellows
that deserve mention are Mike Shaer, and Malcolm Wald. They had my website
up and running in October 1999. |
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This will remain a fond anniversary for me
and my husband, Leonid. They did a tremendous job by ranking my site within
the first pages |
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of search results on Yahoo.com and
Google.com. I understand now that this is no easy feat. I cannot use
words alone to describe the elation |
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I felt and still feel today, when I do
a search for handmade greeting cards on Yahoo. Mere words cannot do justice
to the amount of work they did. |
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I am deeply grateful for their kindness and
talents. Now, Mike Shaer is a very busy person doing graduate studies in
mental health at
McGill
University, |
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but we remain
friends and get together for the occasional coffee, and it is always
wonderful to see him and talk about "old" times. We can talk for hours... |
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With my warmest regards
and affection, Viktorina Savelieva.
November, 2003. |
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Viktorina Cards situation at
the time of COVID-19, August 2021 |
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I am Viktorina Savelieva, the
owner of Viktorina Cards. Getting old, I am thinking about the future of
original handmade cards line I've started. |
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Unfortunately, the situation is such that I have no one
who could continue the work that I love so much. I am looking for a company,
which |
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is producing any artistic product, involving hand work.
They could include handmade greeting cards as their new product. I am ready
to give them FREE rights for all my ideas, designs, patterns, images,
contacts, technology of producing, some materials left, etc. My son owns and
maintains my online Internet shop
www.amazzzingcards.com It was on a top-20 (among 7mln.)
Internet shops, selling handmade greeting cards. Unfortunately, the site has
lost this rating now, but my partner Malcolm Wald
(see on the above) is ready to renew it now. I stopped now shopping carts,
but I still have a contract with CCNow, my online retailer.
Ooops! Unbelievable, as I started this search,
LinkedIn sent me a proposition of contacting
Carole
Gilman,
President/owner at Seracon/eco-Culture.
Wow!
I believe that any sudden event in our life have some signs, hints for our
future action.
On a top of this page I wrote:
"Many thanks
to the organisations, officials and individuals who helped me to start my
New Life in Canada." This is also for Carole Gilman and her company,
where I received my first working experience in Canada and developed my
artistic skills which gave me possibilities of producing handmade cards. |
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