Last week end Wild Birds Unlimited (www.wbu.com)in Fort Collins hosted the Rocky Mountain Raptor Program for an event, Owl Be Home for Christmas. To participate and to support this endeavor, we created Wabi-Ware custom greeting cards featuring eagles, owls and other raptors. We collaborated with Wild Birds Unlimited to offer a discount on the cards to support the raptor program. Coincidentally we have been seeing a shift in the raptors in our neighborhood: The past couple of weeks ago, I frequently heard owls hooting just at sunset. And now, more eagles are coming in to the lakes, often following the flocks of geese that stay on the water at night and then forage in the nearby corn fields during the day. Where we are located in north Fort Collins, Colorado, large flocks of geese overstay during the winter. In the daytime, large flocks fly overhead as they go back and forth between the lakes and shorn fields. Bald eagles follow some of these flocks, looking for injured geese on the ice. Further, some peregrine falcons still perch near the lakes that are mostly free from ice because of the mild days we’ve had.
Too late for the program last week end, I have just received some special international postage stamps with images that feature raptors, mostly eagles and owls. So, a future project will be to create some special Wabi-Ware custom greeting cards using these stamps in collages. For now, I will post some of the images of the current custom greeting cards on this website – under CARDS – Bird and Nest designs.
I have lately heard from some folks that they haven’t been able to easily see the Wabi-Ware custom greeting cards from their smart phones. So, we have just made some changes to the Wabi-Ware website so that the greeting cards show up sooner, particularly on the smaller screens on mobile devices. We’ve changed the WARES tab to CARDS so that one can get to the greeting cards more quickly – and find them more easily. We are always open to feedback about finding Wabi-Ware custom greeting cards from any platform. I appreciate suggestions for sharing information about our cards as well as ideas for new cards you would like to see.
For now, the handmade raptor cards are still available at Wild Birds Unlimited, and we are making more Wabi-Ware custom greeting cards to coincide with the season, e.g., owls in winter forests and snowy owls in winter landscapes. Right after Thanksgiving, these new handmade cards will be at the Wild Birds Unlimited shop along with other Wabi-Ware custom greeting cards to feature wild birds at feeders, critters like foxes and squirrels and glitter elk as well as cards featuring hedgehogs – a favorite this year. Wild Birds Unlimited has a rack of Wabi-Ware Custom Greeting Cards that also includes some of the new line of WORD cards. While most of our handmade cards feature different layers and embellishments, the WORD cards contain just one word and then an image or symbol to represent the word. We sometimes make a play on words and have had fun with folks offering silly suggestions for WORD cards they would like to see – and send. We are just now creating some new Wabi-Ware custom greeting WORD cards for the holidays with seasonal words like Joy, Believe, Peace, Reflect, Light – and more. Again, please contact us with your ideas if you have designs or subjects for cards you would like to see as well as any new outlets for folks who want to locate and share Wabi-Ware custom greeting cards.
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