The thing with button-making is that once you start, it gets kind of addictive.
Its hard to stop when you have the satisfaction of a whole trayful of little colourful goodies to look forward to gazing upon at the end of your labours.
I was enjoying it so much that I decided to make some button rings, which I haven’t done for ages.
With stocking-fillers in mind, hopefully they will be popular on my stalls.
The thing I haven’t yet got sorted out in my mind is how to display and package them.
Last time, I just put them out loose on a tray lined with vintage fabric, popping them into paper bags when purchased.
But it all got very untidy very quickly. I had to keep dashing out front in quiet moments to flip them over, as they were constantly left upside down.
Nobody could see their pretty colours! I can’t be having that!
So. I think I need to come up with a simple yet ingenious display / packaging solution.
Now I could buy fancy ring boxes. But I don’t really want to do that.
I will be exercising my brain on this problem over the next few days.
Any bright ideas you may have about things for rings will be most welcome. ♥
OK, sounds a bit odd, but take a photo of each hand with fingers spread, print them out in colour at life size, mount the print on heavy cardstock and cut the hand out. If you’re wearing pretty nail art, so much the better. Cut a slot in the bottom of the wrist of the mounted hand image. Make a rectangle of card and cut a corresponding slot, drop the wrist into the rectangle, and voila, instant ring display stand. Just push several rings down over each finger and it’s instant bling. I like little white paper bags to package them once sold, but ideally, the bag would have a little Modflowers sticker and your website address on it to seal the opening…
Nice idea. But I have horrid hands. And I bite my nails. But I may have to experiment with stuffing glove-shaped fabric….
Just found a fab cigar box on Pinterest with rolls of fabric lining in. The rings fit between the rolls. I’m sure you have a cigar box lying around…!
I spotted that! And yes, I have several cigar boxes lying around (thanks dad!) Was just wondering how to make it a bit more aesthetically pleasing… I think I might need to quilt a bit of fabric with some leftover quilt wadding to act as the padding.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-Retro-Female-Right-Hand-and-Arm-From-a-Full-Sized-Mannequin-/141025153681?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item20d5c11291 – for display
Little drawstring fabric bag to package in?
Haha! That’s brilliant! But a bit expensive!
Those rings are just stunning!!!
I just had a wee peek on Pinterest and if you search DIY ring display some very cool ideas come up! (including using a funcky high heel! )
You could display them on tubes of rolled up fabric, or padded sausages of fabric, all laid in a basket. Of course people might confuse them with napkin rings and I could just see them like that; maybe a label calling them “napkin or finger rings – you choose”.