WIP – Handmade by Buffy

These are my current projects I’m working on.

WORKS IN PROGRESS

Enamel Pins

A project I started with my mother a few years ago, we came up with the concept of using 3 Sisters Gardening as a theme for soft enamel pins. My mother was a master gardener and seed swapper so she felt she had a great customer base to market my pin designs to. I think she gifted more than sold pins (ahem). I lost my business partner in October 2022 but our project continues. My goal was to always have a set of three as the series & I finally have the finished third pin in hand. The now completed set is now available in my Etsy shop.

I was going back & forth on the plating because pin 1 is in black nickel (& gold) but pin 2 is black coated nickel. Both look nice but for different reasons. So split the difference, we are doing half with a blackish metal & half a matte black. I have been so pleased with this pin company every time I’ve used them. The customer service is amazing & the quality is always consistent.

Embroidered Puzzles

I am testing some of my embroidery pieces as puzzles. Puzzles keep the embroidered stitch detail which helps with finding the right pieces. Tested in two sizes, 1000pc & 500pc. I like both quanities though I do have to say the 500 pc was much quicker to assemble!

Embroidered Puzzles

Really want to make these embroidered puzzles happen. Been talking to a vendor in China about doing puzzles wholesale & I have been working on files for three designs: 1000pc puzzle, poster and box for each. I had wanted to do a small run of three designs & test which art sells best before ordering more but of course it’s not that simple. I need to do some more circling around on this as I can’t have a basement full of 600 puzzles now can I? It’s the product development I love over the marketing & sales, so I’m not sure strategically I’m ready to jump in yet. It’s definitely a good learning experience.