Following on from the last post, after I had posted photos of Carly's bear on my Facebook page, my diary started filling up with orders for more memory keepsakes. However, it wasn't just bears that the customers wanted.
I 'met' Rachel online when I was planning my wedding, sometime between 2008 & 2010, and have been Facebook friends since sometime after then. Rachel is an Expat living with her family in Dubai. Her daughter was 9 months old when they moved to Dubai, and her son was born out there. She wanted a reminder of their time there, for when the children are older and possibly living back here in the UK.
She contacted me and asked if I could make camels for her. I was quite surprised how quickly I was able to find a pattern, and purchased 'Chrissy the Christmas camel' from Funky Friends Factory. I have to admit that I was a bit unsure about purchasing the pattern, and feared that it would sit redundant in a folder, once Rachel's camels had been completed.
How wrong was I?! The camel has become one of my most popular sleepsuit memory keepsakes. Maybe Rachel knew something I didn't!
