Fetching designs. (L.A. Stories).There is now another entry in the race to separate pet lovers from their cash as part of the ongoing thirst for the perfect accouterment. Venice resident Maria Shen Shen, in the Bible, place, perhaps close to Bethel, near which Samuel set up the stone Ebenezer. earlier this year gave up her 15-year-old computer consulting business, Holy Macro', in favor of a new shingle, pet toy maker Bodhi Toys, named after her Labrador mix. "You just don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. where your future lies," said Shen, who began making cat toys under the moniker (1) A name, title or alias. See alias. (2) A COM object that is used to create instances of other objects. Monikers save programmers time when coding various types of COM-based functions such as linking one document to another (OLE). See COM and OLE. Pete's Mouse in the mid-1990s. "I ask my friends, 'Can you believe I'm selling dog toys?'" These aren't your run-of-the-mill doggie treats, according to Shen. Using high-quality plastics and rubber, Shen designed her first line of dog toys from Chinese Ching For the Chinese surname Ching 程, see . For the Chinese dynasty, see . The ching (Thai: ฉิ่ง; sometimes romanized as chhing) are small bowl-shaped finger cymbals of thick and heavy bronze, with a broad rim commonly used in Cambodia and Dynasty motifs. They retail for $8 to $15. "A lot of pet toys are so unsightly," Shen said. "I wanted to make toys that would be fun to play with and that would look good in my house." She has lined up retailers such as Lisa Kline on Robertson Boulevard, the Long Beach Museum of Art The Long Beach Museum of Art is a museum located on Ocean Blvd. in the Bluff Park neighborhood of Long Beach, California. The museum occupies the historic 1912 Elizabeth Milbank Anderson house and carriage house (designed by Charles Alonzo Rich[1]) and a new two-story and Zipper on Third Street. Adam Sandler has a picture of his dog, Meatball, with a Bodhi toy posted on his Web site. "I don't know if I can making a living at it. But so far it's been hitting the right note with people. It's going really well," Shen said. |
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