New Product, New Product

You know those paper wrap-around thingies they have for tea bags? After looking through a ton of craft magazines, art illustration magazines and both the Faerie Magazine and New Witch today I've decided to do single serving catnip packaged that way, with some bells and whistles. Meaning a decorated card stock folding wrap around that's closed with a hole punch/ribbon tie, and little decorative tag threaded through that.

All I need are those tiny plastic jewelry bags to hold the dry catnip. It'll be machine sewn to the card, the sewing also going through a piece of ribbon for extra decoration. Cheap, easy to do, very little cutting on my part. I'd like the print to be in color too, but hey, we can't have everything. It could be stapled on too, but I liked how the sewn down ribbon set things off in that one Somerset Studio magazine.

I think for $1 each they'll sell nicely. As for a product name, how's this: Nip In The Bud

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Just gotta do the drawing for it, and measure out how long a piece of card stock I need, then do the templates out & go get them printed up at Kinkos or one of the other printers.

Next Step -- Comics?

For some reason today I started writing a letter as a comic strip, complete with major character moderating the thing. I got a full two pages of it done, 3 continuous strips per 8 1/2 x 11" page, which was surprising. I seemed to be on a roll. It was fun, it was just done in ballpoint pen with no pencil guide lines so there were mistakes, but it came across pretty well.

I'm wondering now if I should try adding an occasional comic strip to my main website....IF I can keep it fresh and funny that is. (I really, really like how the first two pages turned out).

The Last Catnip Of The Season

It's October, I went out catnip picking on Saturday and I've got the last of the pickings drying out on the driveway on a tarp today. We've got three days of rain coming so I'm hoping that this batch gets as far dried out as it can before that happens.

The latest stuff is rich, thick, and has grown in the past 3 weeks thanks to all the rain we've had. It's been almost knee high again with crisp stems instead of the woody types. Good smell to it too. I've been getting as much as possible so I can go to town making cat toys all winter and not run out.

My Pennsic merchandise was considerably depeleted this year so I want to get going on new items too, plus get the official website updated as much as possible with new pictures. That needs to wait a bit till the new software/provider change/updates occur on the computer. So that part is out of my hands.

Hopefully I can get some nice changes revamped into the site soon. More pictures, something fun to read. Going for unusual and wacky instead of serious & whatever.