HowToClaimYourDragon

So my daughter comes to me a says “He mom, I found a project for us to do together. So I of course ask what it is, (which can sometimes be a dangerous question with her). So she explains that she found a whole bunch of patterns to make plushies for her favorite book series “Wings of Fire” She wants to make all 16 of the major point of view characters, which will take a while. Then we can make a few extras to put up on Etsy is case someone else is interested in buying them. Her main reason for making them was because she couldn’t find hardly any merchandise out there, and she loves stuffies almost as much as me. (Much to my husbands dismay, as our house is already filled with lots of stuffed animals). Including a well loved stuffed Orca Whale won at an Arcade over a period of visits.

So I agree to help her, and we make the first couple Clay and Tsunami. They came out really well and she totally loves them. She’s so excited she brings him to our dojo so she can show some of her friends what she made. They are really impressed! Later after class there is a little girl who really likes them. So her, being her, she says the can have them because the little girls really likes them. Then an older sibling comes over and asks if she can one, and takes Tsunami. ( not snatching meanly, but the younger sister is okay with it.). However, we learn that there is an in between sister, who now is gonna feel left out. So we tell her that we are making other dragons and we will bring her a different one (Glory) the next time we see her. By now the mom is asking are we sure she wants to give away her dragons and Rachael, as yeah it’s fine I can always make more for me later.

A year later she still didn’t have any to call her own so was getting a bit frustrated. We’d make the ones needed for orders, then be working on hers when someone orders the one we are working for her, so due to the large amount of orders that one then goes out to someone else..

I finally made her the first five plus a Sundew and Kinkajou, because she kept giving them away to make others happy, or to fulfill orders since we had so many orders. I can always make more for myself later…