Red Rock Gift Shop-New Community Sales Partner
Handmade paper and Cards for sale at the Red Rock Canyon Gift Shop
We are very excited to announce Red Rock gift shop as our new Community Sales Partner! Last Monday, June 21st, we delivered our first stock of handmade paper products to be sold in the gift shop. They will be selling both traditional handmade paper in assorted color packs, along with a very special Plantable paper (and cards) with indigenous desert wildflower seeds embedded. The National Conservation Area director and the Gift Shop Manager visited Studio 8 Ten for a product tour several weeks earlier and fell in love with many of the products. After much thought, they settled on some of the card designs already sold at Studio 8 Ten, but also requested several new designs be created especially for their venue. Some of the new designs that the artists at Transition Services came up with include humming birds, Joshua Trees, and an adorable burro.
Mojave Max
The day of the product delivery was especially cool for the TSI artists at the Spring Mountain site who volunteered for the task. After dropping off the goods to the gift shop, they ventured out to the tortoise habitat and were witness to one of the female tortoises laying 13 eggs! The eggs were being collected by park staff, and brought to a safe place to sit before they hatch. They learned that a female tortoise can hold her eggs for up to 5 years before laying them. In this case, canyon staff thought this might have been the cause of some grumpiness by this particular tortoise in the past couple of years. The product delivery was made even sweeter when they also got to see 2 other tortoises mulling around, including the famous Mojave Max. Apparently, this kind of tortoise spotting is quite a treat, as desert tortoises spend an average of 95 percent of their lives hiding out.
