Have you seen my new dental gifts and hygienist gifts website? It’s called The Magic Tooth, and it is lots of handcrafted dental jewelry gifts for this hard working profession.
Now the dental profession has its own dental gifts website, with jewelry all by me! Since I’ve had dental profession customers all the way back to the beginning of The Magic Zoo, it just seems to make sense.
These were my reason for creating a website and store just for the dental profession:
• I felt they needed their own catalog (yes, I have one of those, too!)
• Since the dental name badges are so popular, I wanted to promote them a bit more.
• Having dental jewelry under “Animal Jewelry” didn’t quite fit!
• I love designing logos! How do you like this little tooth fairy design I made?
Everything on this new site is my original designs, and all have something to do with dentists. There are still dog tooth fairies and cat tooth fairies, but that is the only place you’ll see animals here. Need dental gifts for someone special? I think you’ll find some great ones here!
Of course I’m not taking down the dental gifts from my current site. But having another way for dental professionals to find me seemed like a good idea. Dental hygienists and dentists have been wearing my creations for a long time. I thought they deserved their own site!
I also do custom work, as many of my long-time fans can attest to. So of course any dentist who needs something special and one of a kind is welcome to call me any time. Most of my custom work is now done in polymer clay, but I have created new designs in precious metal as well.
Like all professions, the dental one is unique. But unlike all professions, just about all of us require their service on at least a twice yearly basis. So they are in our lives as a part of our normal health care.
So, since dentists and their staffs are such hard-working and dedicated individuals, I figured they deserved some jewelry to reflect their work. In my own style, I have created smiling tooth earrings, tooth fairy charms, name badges and much more.
That about covers it for me!
Oh, one other interesting tidbit of information. My grandmother happened to be one of the first woman dentists in the country. In an old sepia photograph, she is the one female presence amid a sea of serious looking men in their Victorian age wool suites. Mama Hutton, as we called her in our family, is tiny and almost lost in the crowd. But gentle and determined-looking, she posed with her male colleagues. In that long-ago time, a woman was expected to give up her career once she married, so she didn’t practice for that long. But I’m still proud of Dr. Hutton!
It comes down to my interest in the dental profession being personal as well as artistic. Mama Hutton would have loved my dental gifts, and I’m sure my cheeky teeth jewelry and tooth fairies would have lit up her face with a smile.