Barry mum sells wacky calendars of cats going to the toilet

Toni Kimberly Hall, 34, has been making cards and gifts for seven years and has launched her silly calendars on themes such as ‘puke’, ‘lush feet of 2023’, ‘spots and blackheads’ and ‘cats sh**ting’.

Despite not being keen on the topics herself, Toni says they are really popular with customers and says ‘cats sh**ting’ - which is on sale for £9.99 - is flying off the shelves with those over 60.

The mum-of-two - who quit her job as an analyst at a call centre to pursue her business - sells everything from cards, socks, baubles and stationery.

Toni, owner of Banter Cards, from Barry Island, Wales, said: “I came up with the idea for the ‘spot and blackhead’ calendar as I love watching blackhead squeezing videos.

“We’re always looking for new ideas so we thought why not make a calendar.

“It’s really popular.

“We do lots of weird fetishes and put them on a calendar.

“When I was searching for some of the poo related ones I could almost smell it through my computer screen.

“The 'cat sh**ting’ one is the most popular with people over 60.

“The calendars are great for secret Santa.”

Toni decided to quit her job in December 2015 when she had the idea to make her own fun ‘banter’ cards.

She learnt how to use Photoshop and has now grown her business to sell more items.

Her items often have a rude theme – featuring swear words or adult humour.

Toni and her small team make all the products in house and she says it takes five to 10 minutes to put together one of their calendars from scratch.

“We have to look all the photos close up as we put them together,” she said.

“If you looked on my history on my PC you’d find all sorts.

“It’s such a fun job.

“I’m not actually into sweary stuff myself but I love making all my products," she said.

“I never want to offend anyone.”

Toni has over 4,000 designs for cards, and plants five trees for every 1,000 cards sold.