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09-19-2008, 08:47 AM | #1 |
Donating Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Bolivar, Missouri
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| Exotic "Yorkie" design furniture Would there be any intereste out there for furniture for people (I'm sure doggy furniture could be done too) with Yorkie designs made by hard from Teak Wood. My daughter and son-in-law just returned from 2 years in Zanzibar, Tanzinia (Africa). They are looking at adding an "import business" as a way to help with the expenses of running the grade school that they opened a little over a year ago in Zanzibar. This school runs on donations mainly from the US and Canada, but the donations are really not quite enough to cover everything. They brought back a coffee table and two different size chest. When I saw them, I ask about the possibility of putting a Yorkie on the top of the chest and or sides and on the top of the coffee table. She said that the craftsmen in Zanzibar said just bring them any picture and they can do it. These pieces of furniture are totally hand carved with beautiful teakwook. We are probably looking at pieces running $200 (for a small chest) and up depending on the size of the piece and the type of furniture. I am going to have them order a chest for me that is around 18 inches wide by 24 inches long by 12 inches deep for me with a Yorkie on top and on each two sides. These chest also have some neat secret compartments behind the lower drawers. I can take some pictures of the chest and table that they have here to put on my photo albulm - I'll do that in this next day or so. But I just wanted to find out how many people might be interested in having something so unusual as this. There is almost nothing that comes out of Zanzibar. So this would be extremely unique, plus would be helping both the craftsman, and the children that attend the school. The school has been running for a year and a half now and has 155 students - many of whom go by scholorship. There is a waiting list of other chldren who want to go to this school, but they have to build more rooms, have more desk, more teachers, etc, that they do not have the money for at this time. Please just let me have some feed back to see if there is any interest in this direction. They are talking with furniture stores in the states, but this with the Yorkies would be a specialized area that I told them I would help with if there was any interest. Thanks!: |
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09-19-2008, 10:13 PM | #2 |
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| Hi, With more info...I might be interested in something like this. I own two boxes that were hand carved and covered in yorkies. Each box is topped with a hand carved yorkie as well. One is even a music box. I can take better pics...but here is one that shows one of my boxes a little. Please keep me updated. Karen |
09-19-2008, 10:54 PM | #3 |
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| Karen, I will. Thanks for responding. I'll be taking some pictures tomorrow and putting them on a "photo albulm". The chest my daughter brought with her from Zanzibar is very detailed in their design. We are going to e-mail the person in Zanzibar some Yorkie pictures and I am going to have him make me a chest first - then maybe later a coffee table. This way I can have some actual "Yorkie" work for people to see. The teak wood is a beautiful dark wood that is a very strong wood. So I think they will be quite beautiful pieces of furniture. Thanks! Terry |
09-20-2008, 05:38 AM | #4 |
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| Sounds great! Terry, Please do keep me on your contact list when and if you begin to take orders. And...I look forward to seeing pics of the 1st piece or two that you have made. Eventually...I would be interested to see if some of the yorkies can be stained to match the colors of my Biewers. Karen |
09-20-2008, 06:39 AM | #5 |
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| I would love to be contacted when you have pictires also
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09-20-2008, 06:56 AM | #6 | |
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09-20-2008, 12:07 PM | #7 |
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| I still have to get some pictures of the two chest that my daughter brought back with her. But I thought I'd put a link up to the web page that she has that tells about the furniture: Home Here is also the web page that tells what she and my son-in-law are actually doing in Zanzibar: allnationsacademy.net When I saw how beautiful the pieces she had with her were, my first thought was of a Yorkie ingraved on it instead. Somehow my mind alway thinks Yorkies. I just think that this would be a really cool, unusal item for the Yorkie lover. You also rarely find truely hand made items any more, especially for the reasonable price that these seem to be. These craftsmen in Zanzibar don't use any electricity at all - there is very little on the Island and what's there goes out often, as I can attest to as I am speaking with my daughter on IM then all of a sudden lose her - so these are made the way the people on the Island have been making furniture for ages. I'll still get some actual pictures of her chest. but the pictures on the first web site are ones that she actually took at the house where they make this furniture in Zanzibar. Thanks. Last edited by ButterflyKisses; 09-20-2008 at 12:09 PM. |
09-20-2008, 02:05 PM | #8 |
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09-20-2008, 04:26 PM | #11 |
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| Sounds interesting about the school as well as the boxes. Hopefully they will do good and get the orders they need to help out with the school. Can't wait to see the boxes when you have them done.
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09-20-2008, 06:05 PM | #12 |
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| Oh! What a beautiful chest! I would LOVE to have one!!!!!!!
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