VERY simple display!
Originally, I brought 6 of my only original frogs and lizards to the Desert Botanical Gardens, just to see if they would be interested in buying just the 6. They then asked me to make a display-type card to enhance them and bring them back.....
...so they could be hung from a beautiful display on their counter. I went home and came up with the idea above. Of course, I HAD to use all my stamping, and papercrafting tools I had at home.
They liked my idea......so they asked for 36 more ASAP! Kind of caught me off guard but worked on them for a couple weeks and brought them in. Just a sampling below....
Just Beginning......
Just beginning to display and sell my work. I have been making these pins since 2007 thanks to my cousin, Jill Claxton, in Kansas City who graciously showed me how to make them. Actually, I only made a couple the first year because they were WAY too hard to do and I put the whole project away. It kept haunting me so I kept at it. It still isn't a piece of cake, but I am now addicted. Really, they are Jill's idea, but I just found my own style. Jill is a fantastic artist who sells in galleries and has gone way beyond simple pins. I love the different doodads I can find out there and I never make 2 the same. I continue to be addicted and I actually sold over 200 to the gift shop at Desert Botanical Garden here in Phoenix until the shop was contracted out to an agency in California. I decided to go on my own....
A week after I delivered my first batch, the manager called me and said "Guess what? I only have 6 left and need more ASAP!!!" I couldn't make them fast enough and brought in about 20 at a time. But in the end........over 200 made and hand delivered!
I packed them in shoe boxes and hand-carried them to the shop.....they knew who I was the minute I stepped in the door. The sales people wore pins on their aprons...that was so inspiring for me!