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I’ve never been a very visual person, and making my products look nice is a massive struggle. But regardless, I want to add labels to things to make them look nice and tell whoever might use it what it’s all about. I remember reading a suggestion on the Dish forum to spray your container with alcohol...
Packaging is such a huge and important topic, and it’s one I haven’t written about much for some strange reason. (When I did a search on the old blog to gather resources for a question posed by Carmencita in the Patreon: January 2017 Q&A section, I realized how little I’ve written about it.) There’s just so...