There's lots of great sentimental comments in here, but not much about her innate sense of business and value of her craft. >Then she was introduced to the fou

There's lots of great sentimental comments in here, but not much about her innate sense of business and value of her craft. >Then she was introduced to the founders of a Chicago upstart called Recycled Paper Greetings. Mike Keiser and Phil Friedmann liked her animals and offered to pay her $50 a design. “I want a royalty,” she remembers saying. “They said, ‘It’s just never done.’ ” But in the end, they agreed. >Keiser recalls that when Boynton signed on, the company was doing about $1 million a year in sales. Within five years their annual revenue topped $100 million, almost all because of Sandra Boynton. To be a young upstart making cards by hands and say that to card company takes a lot of strength and foresight.