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A Fingers & Toes print
is a beautiful handmade ceramic tile keepsake. Each
tile is impressed with your child’s handprint
or footprint, along with your child’s name
and age if you so choose.
We have created many design options, from simple
to more fanciful, to enhance the most beautiful
part of the tile—the handprint or footprint—while
suiting your personal style and color preferences.
All tiles are carefully hand-painted and undergo
a dual firing process in our studio kiln. We go
to great lengths to make each tile as beautiful
as it can be, with a focus on revealing as much
detail in the hand- or footprint as possible.
We feel great joy in presenting you with a beautiful
keepsake you will treasure.
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• At our in-home
studio in South Minneapolis (please call 612-823-2546
for appointment).
• At children’s stores throughout the
Twin Cities area (see schedule).
• Schedule an event for your group or organization
by calling 612-823-2546.
• If none of these options works for you or
your baby or child, please contact us and, together,
we’ll come up with another option.
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It’s definitely the
same concept as the old hand-in-plaster print
you made in kindergarten. It was a great concept;
it just needed to be spiffed up a bit. Here’s what makes
ours special:
• Attention
to detail: People
tell us they love that our designs highlight the
most important part of the tile—your child’s
handprint or footprint—in a way that shows
as much detail as possible and creates a beautiful
piece you’re happy to display in your home.
• Design
options: We always
say that no matter how you capture it—on
paper, in clay, or as a muddy print on your rug—a
child’s handprint or footprint is beautiful.
Our designs accentuate the print, much like a
frame enhances a beautiful photograph. Whether
you prefer a style that is classic and simple,
fun and colorful, or more artistic and fanciful,
we’re confident you’ll find a design
you love.
• High
quality: We create
our prints using high-quality clay and a process
that results in a piece that is as durable as
it is beautiful.
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Making a Fingers &
Toes print is easy and fun. Simply bring your
child to our South Minneapolis studio or to a
scheduled off-site location (schedule). Then the
fun begins.
1. Look through the design options and select
your favorite.
2. Determine what type of print you’d like
(single impression, double impression, etc.)
3. Select a color scheme based on the available
options for the design you’ve chosen.
4. Select a shape for your tile based on the design
options and the number of impressions you’d
like included on the tile.
After you’ve decided, out comes the clay
and in goes the hand, or foot, or feet, or hands,
or hand and foot. You get the idea. It’s
a quick, gentle process using non-toxic clay.
After you leave, we get to work—cutting,
stamping, shaping, drying, painting, firing, glazing,
obsessing, perfecting. And voila! In about four
to six weeks, your beautiful Fingers & Toes
print is complete. We’ll call you to arrange
a time for you to pick up your print (at our studio
or at the store at which we made the print) or
for us to drop it off.
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We truly love them all. But
we will help you narrow the field based on styles
and colors you love most.
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There’s no age requirement
or limit. We’ve made prints for babies just
a few days old, as well as children of all ages.
Our eldest client? Our 100-year-old grandmother
and mother.
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We haven’t met a child
we don’t adore, and we haven’t encountered
a hand or foot we can’t print. All children
have difficult days. If your child decides to dig
in his or her heals—but just not into the
clay—we’ll try to amp up or play down
the fun and encouragement, or we’ll schedule
another session at no cost.
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Just like your baby or child,
we’ve only just begun. We are continually
creating new pieces based on our current designs
and new designs in the works. Check back for new
products coming soon.
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It generally takes 4-6 weeks.
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There are many options.
Some of our favorites include:
• Hanging:
We will make holes
in each tile that accommodate a beautiful ribbon
for hanging your tile.
• Desk
or bookshelf display:
You can easily display your tile using a plate
stand.
• Shadow
box: Your Fingers
& Toes print can be mounted to the back of
a shadow box. We’ll recommend a strong adhesive
to ensure your tile will stay mounted.
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Absolutely. We use non-toxic
clay and wipe your child’s hands and/or feet
clean after each impression.
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Payment can be made by
cash, check or credit card (Visa or MasterCard)
upon ordering.
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Yikes. We’ve been
there. Remember those little bronzed shoes? One
move too many took care of those in our family.
Fingers & Toes prints are durable, and if
treated with tender loving care, they will last
for generations. However, because they are ceramic,
they are breakable. Unfortunately, we do not make
a permanent mold of the print, so we cannot replace
it if it breaks. But we are always available to
make another.
We haven’t had a studio accident yet, but
should one occur, we will make a new print in
the most convenient way possible for you and at
no cost.
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