Have you ever thought about what happens to all the stuff we cut out of our stencils? Where does it go? Say you buy a fleur de lis stencil. You essentially receive a square sheet with a fleur de lis cut out of it. Which means that here in stencil production land, we have a fleur de lis donut hole. A leftover part. We cut a LOT of stencils every day, so we have lots of these donut holes.
I hear you asking, what do you do with all those little bits?
Well, we recycle a lot of the boring stuff. In a perfect world, I would collect every letter and have a bin where all the like letters could go and if you wanted, I could send you a big bag of Es or a giant tub of Rs. I think that'd be neat. But please, I have a 2 year old. I'm lucky if I get to vacuum and get my teeth brushed!
My confession is that I save all the neat stuff. All our animals, our crowns, big chairs and chandeliers. We have these wonderful neighbors next door and one of our neighbors works at the local shoe store, Gimres. (Do visit if you live in Oregon, it's the oldest shoe store in the Western US and has wonderful shoes). Gary, our shoe selling neighbor, has taken a lot of our floral bits to use in displays.
I think we need a stencil with a shoe graphic so we'll have leftover shoe bits for his next display!
A lot of my stencil donut holes I save to ambush my husband's office. We had a run on Easter stencils this past month, and rabbits multiplied all over his desk over night!
Special shout out to Embellish and Restore - who bought a few of our small horse graphics set recently. I corralled those wild stallions to hang out on my husband's laptop today. Whoa Nelly!
Hope you all are doing well! We're busy busy with sales and I try to post every so often. Keep sending in those pictures of your finished products, we'll get to them all in due time. I've got a great project on deck for Friday.
All the best!
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