Packaging And Product

We always recycle, or try to use up the stuff around the place.  We like Chinese take out too, and those plastic dinner packaging thingies have been piling up so I looked at how they could be used.  You know the kind, the black (or white) plastic lower ovals (rectangles) with the clear bubble tops that snap on.  Every time we get one of the lunches or dinners I wash the containers and set them to the side for possible later use.

 

Well, yesterday I was searching across the internet for pictures of sushi and cats - found a white Persian in a samurai type outfit with a headband sitting in front of a cutting board with a tray of food.  And another picture of a Siamese smiling at a piece of raw fish held in a pair of chopsticks. 

 

I did a copy/paste and stuck both into a Word document. Resized them down.  Did text for 'my' line of cat related 'food products' - Authentic Asian Feline Cuisine, and printed them out as labels for the containers.  It took a little putzing to get the pictures down small enough so that the 2" wide packing tape I was using as adhesive could cover the entire thing with enough extra over the edges to firmly fix it to the bubble covers. 

 

Each dinner container will have two shrimp, 'noodles' out of polar fleece, a ball of wasabi (also polar fleece), a duck wing and probably a small packet of dry catnip.  Some will have sushi rolls.  All of the things will be fake of course, they're all cat toys. 

 

I KNOW they'd sell at $5 each, however at wholesale that means only $2.50 for me :( 

 

Wish it could be more.  That limits how many cat toys are going into each as well.  So I'll give it a trial run first at Pennsic and see how they go.  I do like how the overall presentation turned out though.  The pictures liven things up, and I used a Chinese looking font called Papyrus.  It looked better than Times Roman or Arial.

New Year 2015

Ok, I'd like to take this in a new direction and I KNOW people are reading this blog, but the thing is the site makes it very difficult to leave a comment.

 

I need comments. What do you want to see more of?  What do you want me to cover?

 

Selling - online, craft fairs, stores, other?

Working an event that's non-standard? 

My own personal experiences?

Making something new, pattern design, trying a new idea out?

Getting ideas for a creative endeavor?

Something else?  What?

 

You can email me at my regular one - falconme@sbcglobal.net and I'll post here in answer.  Feel free, anyone. But do it in English please, I don't speak any other language than this.  I'm open to doing a dialog or 'requests' or, well a lot of things.  I don't mind networking about supplies and design making or anything related to creating something new and unique. 

Please!  I'd love to hear from you.