60 christmas pieces

It took us some time to get online again. It was a very bad week for training. Very bad indeed. Instead we've been working on raising money this week. Hopefully it will pay off this weekend. Last few days we've been working on getting 60 christmas pieces together. We've got two nightmare scenarios in our heads now:

1) We won't sell more then 10.
2) We will sell out in a few hours.

Both are horrific ideas because it will mean we've either invested a lot of energy, money, resources and it doesn't pay off, or, we're going to work our butts off to make huge production in a couple of days again. And to be quite frank: We're kind of tired already. But we're really pleased with the result. We're selling the fudge now, we're selling our casts now, we've got t-shirts coming in we are going to sell... Yep, we're going for the big bucks! There are just a few people we still need to convince to sponsor us. Some particularly stubborn people among them as well.

This first piece is quite special. It's actually a bucket you can close with a lid and to attach the lid safely there's this ring so it will close completely secure. We've made sure all those pieces will stay together. Anyone notice the lid and the ring?!

This last one I think, is my favorite. Elian thought of this one just before she almost zoned out from exhaustion and before I choked on my apple juice. Well, I almost drowned. Seriously. On apple juice. Anyway, Elian suddenly said: "I know! I'm going to make a banana!" and frantically began to put together some branches, winding some rope around it, sticking in more branches of green and more and more... Looking at me with wild eyes. It was a scary experience, but then, it took shape. The shape of a banana. Finishing it off with a sweet little pink light. This is definitely an inspired piece and the star of our show!