I used to work as a mortician. I mostly worked with families, but I trained to work with the deceased as well. I'd always been interested in the funeral industry and that interest spawned a collection of embalming tools. It's gotten to be an expensive hobby and some items have become rare in the market place. In collecting, I was fortunate enough to gain two embalming kits, both span from the 1900's to the 1960's. And let me tell you, everything is in these kits. I have hand pumps, suture needles, aspirators, scalpels, makeup, eye caps - it's a long list. So anyway, knowing there's an interest in these items, I photographed most of them and added the work to my Zazzle site under "The Mortuary." It gets a lot of hits, but of course, I could use more.
I love this funeral director, mortician style calendar. Each month has a different photograph and the US holidays are listed in it. A friend suggested that next year I add captions explaining what the tools are and for 2013, I will do that. I forgot to consider the purpose of some of these items isn't obvious.
This iPad case has been really popular. It's from an old bottle of embalming fluid.
This card has been super popular too. It's a collection of suture needles and tiny aspirating needles.
Anyway, I'm looking forward to shooting some photos for next years calendar and adding captions. I came up with this idea a little late in the year and had low sales on it. The goal is to move up production on it this year and sell the heck out of them. I have the market cornered on mortician tools!
So, if you haven't stopped by my shop, please do: mollymortphotography @ Zazzle. I've worked very hard on making it look cool and I've put a lot of heart into my designs.
Oh! And! Here's a code good for 30% off a calendar (hint hint): ALLCALENDARS
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