Let
the games begin….
“It’s your turn, Alice,” prompted Giselle impatiently.
Dice seemed to tumble with invisible force across the game
board.
“Snake-eyes! UGH! You move two-spaces, go up the ladder, and
win, again, ” conceded Giselle, while rolling her big brown eyes with
disgruntlement.
A child-like giggle ensued as the blue pawn moved, seemingly
by itself, across the game board.
“Huzzah, mon petite fantome!” cried Madame Le Tron, as she
entered the dining room.
“Well, I ‘ve had enough fun for one day,” said Giselle
between her gritted teeth, as she wrestled with the game board and the
invisible force that held on to the same.
“Alice, let go of the board now!”
Giselle tumbled backward, game board in- hand.
“Very funny, you little ‘impish wonder’,” grunted Giselle.
“Alice, that wasn’t very nice. Remember, you are a guest here at Le Tron and
can be sent back to the other realm at any time,” warned Madame.
Mischievous laughter could be heard fading down the hallway.
“Ghosts!” harrumphed Giselle, getting up off of the floor.
“What is she doing here anyway?”
“Helping the re-cycletrons to put shrouds on our new line of
ghosts going up on Etsy next week. And,
beating you at Snakes and Ladders,” said Madame teasingly.
“Ha, ha, very funny,” said Giselle sarcastically. “I’d wish
she’d act her age instead of acting three.”
“Oh, you mean one hundred and three! Well, it is true, Giselle. Alice wasn’t born
yesterday, nor did she die yesterday, to be perfectly frank,” Madame winked.
“Don’t get me wrong, Madame. I love Alice, but once, just
once, I’d like to beat her at something,” offered-up Giselle, a hint of
vengeance in her voice.
“Well, you might, if you do your … ‘Research’.”
“Research?”
“Exactly. I’ll wager that every time you play a game with Alice, you lose, qui?”
Giselle nodded her pretty blonde head.
“When Alice and I play Scrabble,” Madame continued, “I win, upon occasion. ”
“Surprisingly so,” giggled Giselle, “ considering what a
great speller you are.” There was that tone of sarcasm of again.
“Very funny, Mademoiselle,” Madame went on, adding a bit of
sarcasm of her own. “When Ghoulish Gordon plays a game with our petite fantome,
what game do they play?”
“Slap Jack,” laughed Giselle.
“ I know. Don’t even go there,” quipped Madame Le Tron.
“Slap jack with a ghost, right?”
“Anyway, who wins?” asked Madame.
“ I have seen both of them win.”
“D’accord,” nodded Madame Le Tron. “What other games have you seen Alice play?”
“Dominoes with the re-cyletron, Ralph, and Chess with Managing
Mike.”
“And, does Alice always
win against them?”
“No, not always,” admitted Giselle.
“So, if I we dig a bit deeper, what games other than Snakes
and Ladders do you play with Alice?” probed Madame.
“Backgammon,” replied Giselle.
“And who wins?”
“Alice does.”
“And there you have it!”
affirmed Madame Le Tron
“You lost me,” uttered a bewildered Giselle.
“Well, what does our research tell you?”
“ That I’m lousy at games?” answered Giselle.
“Well, we know that’s not true. You usually beat me at Scrabble,” replied
Madame.
“Spelling….”
“Ha, ha, ha,” Madame admitted, laughing. “So, based on your
observations, what do the two games that you
play with Alice have in common? Something that the games she plays with others
don’t?”
Giselle thought for a moment. “Well, they are played on
boards.”
“Scrabble is played on a board,” pointed out Madame.
“With dice.…”
Madame gestured for more with her black-gloved hand. “What
else?”
“And, all the games we play were suggested by Alice….”
“Precisely, because Alice is a ghost, and a mischievous one
at that! Those of us who have had age-old encounters with Alice have observed
her ways and have learned from our observations,
as any good researchers would. Alice is good with the die!’’
“Alice cheats!” exclaimed Giselle.
“Let just say, that after one hundred and three years of research
and observation, Alice has learned to “play” some games,” restated Madame Le
Tron.
“Why, that little ‘impish wonder,’” reiterated Giselle,
laughing.
Ah, once again, all is well in the World of Le Tron!
Au Revoir, regardez vous, next Friday at 3pm!
Madame Le Tron
Note: In a continuing
effort to find our “Niche Market”, we are excited to announce that we will be
appearing in our first Mystic Arts Fair this May. To prepare for this event we went “back to
the basics” and created an old fashioned to do list to begin our research.
Our product is a line of Dark Fairies a la Le Tron. This line includes Wall Art and our very
popular dolls on a stick, big here in Minnesota.
We’d like to share our “To Do List!” with you!
Google Search Fairies
Etsy Search Faires
Library
Barnes and Noble
Read, read, read
Render Designs
(From here we had a basic design plan, but were looking for
the “Twist.”)
Back to Google – discovered a thread to elementals
And we had it! Elemental Fairies!
From here we started down the path of Mystic Arts, Meditation and Healing.
Then we were touched by fate. We were looking to register in
a neighborhood art show and notice an ad for a Mystic Arts Fair. We attended
that event and “lo and behold” everything fell into place. We found our
audience and it felt like home!
As we refine our product line, all of these “stops along the
way”, play a significant roll in product design and development, as well as
audience building and marketing. We are very anxious to see the results.
We would love to understand how you have used research and
observation in product design and “Niche Marketing”. Please share with us below.
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