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It seems to be school auction season. I love this time of year because it means that I get to meet a new group of families.
This year I was crazy enough to take on an even bigger ‘give’. I was given the opportunity to put something in goody bags that are being given out to all attendees at one particular auction. I gave this a ton of thought and what I realized, quickly, was that whatever I put in those bags needed to be more than a card. How often have you gone to an event and gotten a goody bag filled with card? Did you look at any of them? I don’t! Usually they go right into the recycle bin. So I knew I needed to actually give the folks a reason to take a second glance at my name. I also needed to come up with a cost effective way to get 250 of ‘something’ that could advertise for me.
So what is a girl to do? Check out Pinterest of course! What I found was a great tutorial on how to make key fob key chains.** So I ordered the webbing and hardware, purchased some fabric that matched my logo, and I also found a place that makes custom grosgrain ribbon. It definitely took some time, but I enjoyed the process and here is what I came up with. (Please excuse the crappy iphone pictures as I only had a bit of time to take these shots before I delivered everything to the school!) And to make them extra cool I printed up Moo cards with pictures of families that go to the school on one side and my logo on the other.
I’m hoping these keychains say that I am fun, happy, slightly quirky and higher end than the folks who just give a card! I’m hoping that these little keychains will keep my name handy for all these families when they need some fun, happy, slightly quirky and higher end pictures taken of their little darlings!
**The one thing I recommend changing was I would order the key fob tool from etsy. Much easier than a hammer! To make these en masse I found it better to sew long lengths of fabric to the webbing and then cutting them to the right lengths later. I like efficiency. I purchased the webbing, took and hardware from this gal: EverythingRibbons. The grosgrain ribbon from these folks: PrintMyRibbon. The the cute little cards from these guys: Moo