2010 marks the 100th anniversary of Hallmark Cards (and my 13th anniversary working for them!). In honor of the big event, we were each issued a crown to decorate, for a display in January. So I took my plain white, resin crown and made it gold & sparkly...
And then set about creating plush caricatures of our President/CEO/Vice Chairman of the Board, Don Hall Jr., and his brother—our President of Hallmark North America, Dave Hall:
All the pieces cut out & ready to assemble:
The Halls are taking shape, with hand-embroidered faces and "Hallmark plum" colored ties:
The completed Halls. They're about 12' high, and look rather cute in their tiny suits & ties, if I do say so myself:
This is how I envision they'll be displayed, with an arm over each others' shoulder, sitting in the crown. (I'm working on a label for the front of the crown that says, "Congratulations Don & Dave."
Or maybe we'll just display them like this!
Last-minute additions: Hallmark ID badges, & a message on the crown:
Hopefully the Halls will approve...I'd like to make it to my 14th anniversary, at least! ; )
Just found out that my crown is headed to Japan! In April, Don and Dave will be taking the crowns to the Imperial Hotel to be put on display. The crowns will eventually be shown in a trade show overseas in July, and will then return to the Hallmark visitor's center in August.
