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!:
