Finding Lost 'Treasures'

I cleaned out some old paperwork stacked in the craft room, finding a ton of old sketches for soft sculpture toys, ideas, even pattern pieces done on scratch paper, and you know, sometimes you run across stuff you have to stop and look at and think 'what was I THINKING!???', with no clue where some idea came from or that it was sketched out.

 

Found a few this way, today.  Rat sketches in odd poses, with the words 'special rat mail delivery' and a sketched logo..... ???????WTF????????? Shuffling through the stack a few more pages down I found a sketched out pigeon toy.  OH!  Light dawned!  I had been trying to come up with ideas for 'mail delivery' at the Ren Faire of Pennsic War.  I'd had multiple people ask about something they could tie a message to and toss into people's camp to have a 'carrier pigeon' deliver a party invite by.  Being Medieval, a rat would be a good second choice.

 

Frankly it never got past the sketch phase, but it's a cool idea. The pigeons (or rats) would have to have ties sewn to them to hold the messages, and be sold in pairs possibly, for delivery and a reply back.  Well, that was the idea, basically. I don't know that I'll ever take that one forward, but it brought back memories from maybe 6 or 8 years ago.

 

One page further under that was a sketch of a frog toy.  Nothing special, but written next to it was the words NINJA POISON THROWING FROGS. 

 

Ok, now THAT one I can use!!!!!  Something designed to give kids glee that they can officially throw these things at each other.  THAT I can work with!  Something to probably see now at next year's Bristol Renaissance Festival in Wisconsin.  Look for it!  Bast's Garden Menagerie will be carrying them.