Idea targeted at Upcountry Hawaii Visitors?
I live in magnificent Hawaii upcountry near a thoroughly beautiful stream that produces numerous waterfall.
Some of the falls are right off the prime highway and have become a busy spot frequented by numerous people and locals that hike to lift a dip in the magnificent falls.
There is a fruit stand that sells banana bread, smoothies, fruit, and such, and some vendor who mostly sell fine handmade hemp,wire, and stone/shell jewelry.
I want to manufacture something simple that people would want to buy to be exact simple and resourceful(ie uses what I have already).
What are your accepted wisdom? What do you think they would want to buy?
I enjoy
-the beautiful rainfall forest abundant next to trees and plants
-basic art supplise
-blank cds
-old pentax mx slr camera
-very limited "student" budget
I be thinking of making and selling:
-photo albums (expensive/complicated to make/bind?)
-bookmarks (how do I laminate??)
-selling prints of my own photography (expensive up front)
-postcards?? (how do I make them complicated
Answers:
When I be in Hawaii, my husband and I go to a luau. They showed us how to weave a fish out of a palm leaf. It be real cute but I be afraid I wouldn't be allowed to take it home. Now I longing I would have tried to bring it. If you could build those and then put something on them to hang on to the palm leaf from deteriorating (like varnish or decopage shellac) they would probably get rid of well. You could even kind them with a loop attached for flaccid. You could make some next to plastic googly eyes on them or paint stripes on some of them to make them different. I bet they would be cute and lots of relatives would buy them.
Bookmarks are uncomplicated to laminate. Put down a layer of brown dissertation, a layer of wax broadsheet, a layer of pastic picture, your bookmark, then motion picture, wax paper and brown daily, and iron them together. You could do a scenic strip of your beautiful rainforest, or a dramatic picture of a vine climbing up the bookmark or doesn`t matter what.
Lots of luck with your project.
aloha
Oh come on...just go plumeria leis, and lei po'o, tourist go nuts for the "love", the aloha.
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