Daylight Savings, Exotic Cats and More!

Was everyone else thrilled to get an extra hour of sleep? My cell phone still hasn't updated the new time, but then I realize it's an hour earlier and I have more hours in the day to get things done! Yay!

Sea Star Studios is still in business, and I'm continuing to make new items all the time. I find that I enjoy sculpting and creating infinitely more than photographing and listing items, but unfortunately that's an essential part of online selling, now isn't it?

I have recently begun to feature a new line of animals charms that will help to benefit the zoo where I volunteer! Since August, I have been working as a volunteer zookeeper at a non-profit wild cat breeding facility. EFBC-FCC: http://www.cathouse-fcc.org/

They are world-reknown for their excellent breeding efforts with exotic and critically endangered cats, such as the Amur leopards. Only about 25-40 individuals remain in the wild, and our zoo has one of the largest captive populations of these exquisite creatures.

I began making small wild cat charms and selling at the zoo, all of the proceeds being donated to AAZK: http://aazk.org/. They were a hit! So I decided to also start selling these little charms in my Etsy store. I will be donating 10% of the sales to AAZK and EFBC's Feline Conservation Center.

Here are pictures and links to the first ones I have listed. Eventually I hope to be able to take custom orders; however, for now, stock is limited to only the ones I have already made.

Tigers:





http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=33459790

Serval:




Leopard:




And finally the cougar, my favorite of all the cats!




And the inspiration for much of my work, EFBC's cougar, Teddy:


Until next time,

<3 Jenny