Marketplace: Collections and Groupings

Bernadette August 20, 2022 0 Comments cat accessory bags, cat artwork, cat garden flags, cat gifts, cat merchandise, cat tote bags, handmade tote bags, tote bags

Peaches gift collections: cigar box keepsake, small round keepsake, small votive lamp and tile.

When setting up I decided to group different gift items into collections with the same or similar artwork and sell them as a package with a discount on the total if someone buys the whole group. Each item is fairly popular and I regularly make new keepsakes and lamps so the shape might be a little different from what you see—a different cigar box, small keepsake or jar.

I only make the tiles in large groups every few months, though, so if the tile sells separately that wouldn’t be part of the grouping until I make more. I keep trying to devise a quicker way to make new tiles!

The Peaches and Peonies collection:

This collection includes:

a vintage cigar box keepsake box
a small round keepsake box
a small votive lamp
a tile

The lamp is $20.00, the other three items are $15.00 each, so the total would be $65.00, but I keep the lamp at $20.00 and each other item reduced to $10.00 when you buy them all, so the total would be $50.00.

Here is the Lucy collection:

black cat gifts — The Lucy gift grouping: small square keepsake, large votive lamp and tile.

This collection includes:

a small square keepsake box
a large votive lamp
a tile

The lamp is $20.00, the other three items are $15.00 each, so the total would be $50.00, but I keep the lamp at $20.00 and each other item reduced to $10.00 when you buy them all, so the total would be $40.00.

Here is the Sienna collection for tortie lovers:

tortoiseshell cat gifts — Sienna grouping with tile and small lamp.

This collection includes:

a vintage cigar box keepsake box*
a small votive lamp
a tile

*Sienna’s vintage cigar box keepsakes are hard to keep in stock! I didn’t have one when I took these photos, but I’ve decided to make two or three so I always have one on hand. Below is a photo of one of the recent ones I made and sold.

Draw Me Like One of Your French Cats Vintage Cigar Box Keepsake

Interested in a grouping of gifts?

If you can’t come to the farmers market or any other event and you are interested in one of these groupings, just let me know. When I’ve added them to my website in the past it’s never come to anything, and since it’s time-consuming to do that and promote it I don’t add them anymore. However, I do sometimes include them in my bimonthly Creative Cat Preview Newsletter, so sign up for that if you want to have another chance at a grouping.

Upcoming Events

Here’s the schedule at the moment, and I’ll be adding to it as a few other things are finalized. The farmers markets are Sundays, and I may also have a Saturday event here and there.

Spring and Summer Events

Sunday, August 21
Carnegie Farmers Market
I’ll have all my feline and nature gift items and select art and prints
40 vendors, food, music
Noon to 3:00 p.m.
Main Street Carnegie between Mary Street and Broadway Street

Friday and Saturday, August 26 & 27
Rock the Quarry XX
Art and photography of the trail and the woods surrounding
Fundraiser for Collier Friends of the Panhandle Trail
Vendors, food and lots of local music
Friday 5:00 to 11:00 p.m.
Saturday 3:00 to 11:00 p.m.

Sunday, August 28
Carnegie Farmers Market
I’ll have all my feline and nature gift items and select art and prints
40 vendors, food, music
Noon to 3:00 p.m.
Main Street Carnegie between Mary Street and Broadway Street

Sunday, September 11
Pet Memorial Sunday
Details to come

Sunday, September 18
Carnegie Farmers Market
I’ll have all my feline and nature gift items and select art and prints
40 vendors, food, music
Noon to 3:00 p.m.
Main Street Carnegie between Mary Street and Broadway Street

Sunday, September 25
Carnegie Farmers Market
I’ll have all my feline and nature gift items and select art and prints
40 vendors, food, music
Noon to 3:00 p.m.
Main Street Carnegie between Mary Street and Broadway Street

Saturday, October 1
Woofstock at Washington Area Humane Society
Details to come

Sunday, November 20
Carnegie Holiday Market
I’ll have all my feline and nature gift items and select art and prints
30 vendors, food, music, sidewalk sales
Noon to 3:00 p.m.
Corner of West Main and Third Street, Carnegie, 15106

Marketplace

tortoiseshell cat in studio — Sienna wants to know if she gets a keepsake this year.

Sienna is happy to know she gets a keepsake this year.

Take a look at other new merchandise and featured artwork.

Marketplace is a feature on The Creative Cat to share the latest coming out of my studio with my readers. Once a week on Thursday I feature something new in my “shop”.

Read about creating custom items

Find out more about creating custom items for your own home using the images you see here. Visit the “Ordering Custom Art” page to see samples and read bout how to order.

Find out about events and festivals where you can find me and my work.

Sign up for my e-newsletter (below), check the widget on the sidebar on my home page, or sign up to receive posts on Portraits of Animals Marketplace. I plan on plenty of events this coming summer in the Pittsburgh area.

It’s all done under the close and careful supervision of my studio cats!

Copyright

All images and text used on this site are copyrighted to Bernadette E. Kazmarski unless otherwise noted and may not be used without my written permission, although links to your site are more than welcome and are shared. Please ask if you are interested in using and image or story in a print or internet publication. If you are interested in purchasing a print of an image or a product including it, check my animal and nature website Portraits of Animals to see if I have it available already. If you don’t find it there, visit Ordering Custom Artwork for more information on a custom greeting card, print or other item.