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a little about us...........
We launched the business Catirina Bonet Designs as sculptors and artists in 1990. Myself, Angela Catirina and my mother, Bonnie (hence, Bonet) joined creative forces perhaps many years before. Professionally and under the Catirina Bonet label, the very first pieces we did that found public and media aclaim were the Catirina Bonet Hand Sculpted Santa Clauses sold in art galleries and high end gift shops throughout the United States. They were featured right away in "The Collector's Art Guide", a prominent Santa Fe, New Mexico art publication. At the age of 19, I was the youngest artist that had ever been featured in the publication at that time. The santa's were historically accurate and designed to reflect heritage from nine countires throughout the world. Because of the historical research involved in creating the line, they were also picked up by the Panhandle Plains Historical Museum in Canyon, Texas - one of the country's preeminent museums of history.
We had numerous inquiries in those early years to create a less exclusive, more affordable gift line that would hold true to the values we had established with those very first pieces - high quality, American Made pieces that reflect our American heritage with vintage fabrics and findings collected on our many travels. Well over 1 million miles caluclated since this company began. Our sculpted pieces retailed at $300 and up in 1990. We wanted to create beautiful, rare, unique, one-of-a-kind items that everyone could afford. Fifty dollars, twenty dollars, ten dollars, under ten dollars - it became our own personal mission.
From 1992-1995 we traveled almost every single day - or so it seemed, across most of the United States. Meeting store owners from town to town and selling our creations along the way. Fun? Yes. Exhausting? Utterly. Sewing by night, selling by day - this was truly a grass roots effort. You may have stumbled upon our designs in probably the quaintest of shops along our way and not ever know of us. We were so consumed with our product line at that time that we had not developed a label and most of these items were sold without the purchaser having any idea of who we might have been. Perhaps the shop owner mentioned the "mother and daughter" that came through with these irresistable creations. Piegon Forge, TN * Williamsburg, VA * Texas Hill Country * Blue Ridge Mountains * Midwest * Pennsylvania Amish country during apple picking season * Denver * and just about everywhere else. We were there.
In the mid to late 1990's, we decided it best to base our operations in Omaha, NE. Neatly located in the heart of the country and for a time, my childhood home. Center of the United States? Yes. Convenient to anything? Not necessarily. And oh my heavens, we had forgotten how cold!! I do think we really reached a creative peak at that time. A small selection of stores throughout the US had picked up on our line and had developed a following for both the hand sculpted clay pieces (we had created a very successful line of angels by then, having previously retired the Santa Claus line that was numbered to only 300 pieces of each of the nine original designs) and the "Catirina Bonet Originals" gift line.
We were so confident in our success that we packed up and moved to Los Angeles, CA in 1999. My mother, Bonnie, was born in La Jolla, just north of San Diego. So again, this was a sort of homecoming. It had been many years though, since living in California, and we were taken aback by the overwhelming restrictions for this type of business in this metropolitan city. We turned our creative juices back toward the more exclusive arts. We took up painting - myself, acrylics and Bonnie acrylics and her preferred watercolors. We also developed the "Catirina Bonet Designs" line of hand knitting & crochet patterns.
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