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Choppy1 — Choppy CorSaver Lip Balm - For People w/ Lips

A week before Super Bowl 2012 festivities started in Indianapolis, the ChopSaver people- Dan and Noelle Golsling came to visit. They wanted a mascot for their ChopSaver Lip Balm – For People with Lips. If your a small biz w/ a great product, you have to pay attention to the SuperBowl’s outreach possibilities.

AvantGarb was swamped. We didn’t have a spare second to make a right-this-very-minute-new mascot. There were 3 Kangaroos, a Horse, a Soybean, a Grizzlie and the Griff waiting to be made. However, ChopSavers came with a referrral from a close friend, Carol Frohlich.

….and Dan & Noelle are ardent entrepreneurs and they have THE MOST LUSCIOUS LOOKING LIPS!

Of course we said yes.

Making “Choppy” was like driving the Indy 500. The sewing machines raced and whirred for 3 days.

….and sometimes we used our big, old, powerful cobbler machine. Rather than turn the fabric, foam, patent-leather-vinyl, the walking foot turns to change the stitching direction (sewing machine info for sewing nerds).

Whenever the ChopSaver folks show up, the excitement & entusiasm level rises. Annie & Mike ( a couple of Garb Ganger) finished the last stitches and wriggled the ChopSaver mascot onto the interior structure while with help from the ChopSaver gang.

Choppy:Anne:Harness — Choppy-Annie securing interior harness

Everyone in the GarbGang has luscious lips now because we use Chopsaver Lip Balm. Plus, it was a blast working w/ Dan & Noelle.

I’ll be the Queen of Ceremonies (that’s QC, not MC) for Dressing Indianapolis. It’s part of the Spirit & Place Festival and Indy Talks – a kind of twofer – on Tuesday November 1st at 7:00 at the Indianapolis Museum of Art (IMA) in the Toby. I’ll be wearing pearls and maybe a tiara.

When I think of dressing Indianapolis, I think about how I’d like to make big, pillbox hats for street lamps, put a top hat and a bow tie on Hilbert Circle Theater building and maybe some nice summer dresses on the stanchions around the monument. I’m a literal kinda gal. For me, all things animate and inanimate have mascot potential.

The people at Spirit & Place have a wider and more embracing vision. Dressing Indianapolis is, indeed, about style. Style of buildings, architecture, cityscape and lighting. It is about the personalities of different neighborhoods, the interaction and community that happens in public spaces. It is also about culture, streetwear, businesses, schools, do-good organizations —-and yes, its about clothes and fashion and the riffing that goes on between and amongst all of those elements.

Come join us. There will be talk, there will be picture, there will be new ideas, there will be people wearing cool clothes and there will be cocktails. We’ll have a blast!

Choppy – ChopSaver Lip Balm

Queen of Ceremonies (QC) – Dressing Indianapolis