Show and tell

I felt my heart bouncing inside of my chest today.... I think it made up a song to dance too... beat...beat...bopbop....beat..... whoa what a crazy day! Finally it was the day that to show everyone Fingerlings. I had to wait 2 years to show them to anyone: even my friends. I had told some people that I was working on something really cool but like my favorite spy- James Bond- it was a secret mission that no one could know about or… dun dun dun…… big trouble! LOL! That’s at least what I was thinking about during all those discussions my parents had with me teaching me about patents and trademarks… I mean for a kid it’s pretty dry stuff wayyyy over our heads… (Yes, I was caught a couple times peaking at the TV whenever they mention this stuff) I got the point though, with 4 parents – two who went to lawyer school…. I didn’t spill the beans! YEA!

That’s why my heart was beating so fast because I was super excited to FINALLY show my friends! My teacher let me make a presentation in school which I started out by reading a line from a letter my Mommy wrote to me about Fingerlings. It read, ”These fingerlings are for you to wear and show everyone, get ‘em dirty, play with ‘em, whatever little boys do- enjoy them!”
My friends were very excited and these guys aren’t just regular kids. My classmates are really the coolest kids, we always have so much fun together and they are super smart too so I knew they would love to know all about Fingerlings . I told them about the patent application and how it stops people from stealing your ideas and I showed them the logo that we trademarked. They were very excited! They liked that they could read my initials in the logo and how it made a smiley face… it’s sort of like a puzzle: that’s why I love it!

I explained to them that Fingerlings are Fashion 4 fingers, made from fabric like our clothes! What adults don’t understand is that we have really always wanted something cool to wear. For crying out loud we are wearing rubber bands (silly bandz…so cool- I have tons) as bracelets! I mean hello… what options do we have? Adults with their fancy jewelry… that doesn’t work for us! We lose things easily and we grow so fast- adults don’t want to buy us expensive gold jewelry and if they do… um where did it go? Uh ohhh! So all we were left with was cheap metal jewelry that turns our fingers green! It’s awful! I once bought my Mom a ring from the school Santa which I knew she was going to love and what happened? Not even a week later it turned green, it turned her finger green and the pretty stone fell out! No one wants to have their gift turn a finger green! Worse, imagine if this was a gift for my valentine? I would be the laughing stock- instead I came up with a solution to this problem! Fingerlings- Fashion 4 Fingers, made from the most exotic fabrics in the world and they surely won’t turn your finger green! So the time had come to reveal this secret treasure to everyone…

I gave them the bags I had made up for them, they ripped them open to get the Fingerlings inside. They loved them!!! Everyone was playing with them and said they were very cool…. Everyone wanted to know where to get more- so I showed them the business cards and the address for my online store tycfingerlings.com. Kids from another class hurried over to see the Fingerlings. Everyone wanted one, it was a frenzy! I even ran out of business cards! Turns out everyone else thinks Fingerlings are super cool too- which means a lot because I spent the last 2 years working on them! I even design them so guys can wear them too, like with flames on them: I call it the Hot Rod! Metal jewelry is too sparkly & shiny for guys most of the time! Fingerlings are a real option for everyone- even adults like them because the fabric is so exotic… we even have crocodile ones! My teacher even took some home to wear! ;)

This wouldn’t exactly be the first time a kid had to tell the adults what was cool!! Lol!!! The day was great! Fingerlings were a hit, everyone had a blast and I finally got to share them with everyone. Now, the question I have is how do I share them with everyone in the world? I want everyone to know that I found a cure for green finger! I am going to try very hard but I am a small man in a big mans world, so… I can only promise I will do my best! I have to go now because I have a lot of work to do. I will talk to you again real soon! TyC-ya later!