Cooporate Gifts & the Happy Dance!

I met a local Doctor this summer as I did the Farmer’s Market and now I’m going to do gifts for all her nurses and staff.  I’m excited.  She was here today, blew through like she’s on some kind of “fast forward” but she liked my ideas and my work and she ordered twelve, so I’m tickled.  Plus she paid half down.  Yeah baby!  The cash is a big help right now, let me tall ya!!  And will be as long as I’m the annoyed owner of two houses!

The idea I pitched her was a candleholder with candle from my hand painted art glass collection.  Then three bars of soaps that match, plus a coordinating bag of my herbal spa soak.  So the ladies can light their candle, draw an herbal bath to relax plus three matching bars of soap that will last quite a while.  And they will be in white bags with matching tissue and ribbon!  All for $25, and completely hand made and all matchy-matchy by me.  I think they will be marvelous!  I’ll be making them over the coming days and as I do, I’ll post photos.

She has a running joke with a friend who eats everything in sight – especially chocolate - so she also bought a collection of my gourmet soaps plus the edible fragrance guest bars for that friend.  I wish I could be a bug on the wall when that gift is unwrapped.  LOL!

I did corporate gifts for an office at GE for a few years.  They like to do handmade artisan stuff and I worked that process to get two years out of the deal.  Usually they choose an artist and then a new one the next year but because I work in a variety of media, I was able to do it twice.  They spend $70 each year – KaCHING!  Seriously, I love this kind of thing.  I totally get all jazzed when people like to give my stuff as gifts!  Plus, it was fun to send my art glass to different countries all over the world.  United Arab Emirates, Japan, France, Germany, etc…  yeah baby! 

Anyone else want in on this?  I’ll be happy to make corporate gifts for anyone else who needs them!  The woman at GE that I worked with just made her Christmas cards and sent them to me, picked from images I emailed her, then her assistant gave me the credit card number and that was all she had to do.  Done!  I created the gifts, packaged them along with info about me, included her Christmas card and shipped them out.  Yeah, that was fun!

Check out my website and then email me with your price range and number of folks you want gifts for and I'll email you a list of options to choose from.  It's fun!  And it's another thing off your list!  I love my job!