Colors can soar through pages, but coloring books aren’t the most portable of ways to deal with stress. Ever since the adult coloring book phase hit, my mom has been obessed. I can see how the coloring soothes her, and it even helps her focus at times. They come in many creative designs and themes (I myself have been looking at Doctor Who themed coloring books). Something that I have noticed however, is that it isn’t really something you can take anywhere. Not only do you have to bring the book itself, you must also carry colored pencils or other coloring utensils. It can be a hassle and is inconvenient in professional environments. Not only that, they often require some kind of surface to color on. Fly Chams, however, offers a different way to focus while also being proactive. It often requires one hand to fidget, and you can carry it on you wherever you go! With Fly Charms, the sky's the limit!
-Loanis :)
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Hi, I’m Keegan. I have been fidgeting for over ten years. Since first grade, I realized that fidgeting helped me focus during class. From spinning my pencil or picking at my nails, I had to do something with my hands to stay focused. Fast forward to 2017 where there are now many mechanisms used to fidget, I found them way too distracting. Although I like playing with the fidget spinner, it makes me less focused on learning in class and more focused on what I’m doing with my hands. I am happy to be able to use the charms from FLY Charms because it helps me focus in class more without making the noises of fidget cubes and spinners that distracts other people as well as myself.
Hey it's Ashley, I just want to come on and say a few things that I do to distress during a daily school week. I have an oil diffuser humidifier also known as my Humidew, that each night I put in a different oil or some nights 2 different ones that go together. My favorite oil to de-stress is lemongrass. I also like chamomile it's very relaxing. Many different essential oils have different effects. I use a different oil almost every other night and it works very well for me!
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The charms like the spinners that have gotten popular recently are pretty big, and that alone is distracting. Loanis' sister, Celeste, made a pretty good point about the bulk of these toys. Since they're so large, they require two hands, and if one hand would be used, it's most likely the dominant hand. This takes away attention and time from school work where they'd need to be writing and such. Furthermore, the size does cause distraction, because of the fact that it's such a large attracted of attention. FLYCharms are the perfect small size to allow usage and avoid distraction, which is good to avoid these sorts of problems. • SOUND Natalie mentioned to me how some kids have been spinning the spinners and then putting them on the desk, which causes some loud noises. A majority of our charms are good in this too. The roller charm has a bit of noise, but I think the sound is soft enough to avoid any sort of issues. The sound is also part of the appeal, since sound is something that some people use in fidgeting. • MONEY AND COST On the topic of the sound, Loanis and I discussed how an issue with these toys is that people are buying the cheaper bootleg versions of them, which has lower overall quality than the more costly ones. Because of this, the sound is less subtle and other problems are present. FLYCharms doesn't have any of these issues though, since they're relatively cheap to make and they're already top quality. • MOVEMENT These spinners are really, really distracting. The way they move (in addition to everything else) really draw the attention of those around them, especially when people are using them like toys instead of discreetly, as people are. FLYCharms, since they're on the smaller side, avoid being distraction or have any obnoxious movements, while still doing their proper jobs. • SHARING This is one of the worst things about the spinner charms; having them and using them is one thing, but then passing them around and sharing them with people is another. This is where the whole "needing it" comes into play, since this gives the impression that the spinner is nothing but a toy to some people instead of a tool they use to focus. FLYCharms, however, are on chains and hooks, which makes passing around and sharing pretty tedious, which helps detour people from doing it. If showing or sharing occurs, it'll likely be people reaching to fiddle with the charm and then not much else. Overall, FLYCharms work around all of the issues that were expressed by this teacher and are good replacements for these other fidget toys. -Joselyn HELLO IT IS NATALIE AND I HAVE SUPER EXCITING NEWS. I FEEL COMPELLED TO BE USING ALL CAPS BECAUSE THAT IS HOW EXCITED I AM. I RECEIVED A PACKAGE FROM WEAR YOUR LABEL YESTERDAY AND IT HAD OUR TEAM FRESH PERSPECTIVE SHIRTS!!! I HAVE BEEN WEARING ONE EVER SINCE AND THEY ARE SUPER COMFY AND ECO-FRIENDLY (YOU CAN READ MORE ABOUT THAT UNDER THE PARTNERSHIPS TAB) AHHHHH!!! WE ARE SO READY FOR EXPO AND TO ROCK THESE SHIRTS! Heyyyy! It's Jamie here! So FLY Charms are all the hype right now. Guidance counselors and teachers are willing to try out some of the charms on their students. A couple weeks ago, a licensed psychologist contacted us asking to know more about FLY Charms. We replied to her and she said that she's willing to try some out on her clients. We're super excited to offer our charms and get feedback on the charms! Updates will be posted soon! :D
It seems that fidget cubes are all the rage nowadays, and it seems like everyone at my school has one. Although many people in my school have a fidget cube, the number of people with genuine, functional fidget cubes is surprisingly low. Because of the high demand for fidget cubes, the online market is flooded with cheap knockoffs. Knockoff fidget cubes may be cheaper, but most of them don't work as well as a normal cube and are easy to break. On the other hand, FLY charms are new on the market, we have no cheap imitators (YET) so whenever you order a FLY charm it is guaranteed to be the genuine article. FLY charms are also less obtrusive than fidget cubes and are able to be tailored to the individual; you are able to purchase the FLY charms that work best for you, instead of buying a fidget cube for only 1 or 2 parts of the cube and paying $19.00 for all 6. So for any fidgeters (this is apparently not a real word but whatever) who are trying to save their money, FLY charms are the way to go.
- Julia Hey guys! Joe here. Over the last few days, we've been in contact with one of the local middle schools after hearing from a certain anonymous source (my younger brother) that they've been having issues with fidget toys becoming a distraction. When we went in, the stories that came from the teachers came close to horror. "Well, I'm not sure they're SO distracting, to be honest," said one teacher, "the other day there were 4 boys watching a 5th boy play with his fidget spinner, and when he dropped it, they all jumped to the ground wrestling for it. I just thought to myself, 'Well, 5 boys isn't bad. If it was 6 boys, man, then that'd be bad'. So in full honesty, you can imagine the problems I've been having." Another sentiment the teachers expressed was that the spinners take both hands and become a focal point not only to the student themselves, but those around them. Because of this, the relaxing and focusing nature of the fidget toy becomes compromised and thus a distraction in and of themselves. Most classrooms have banned them already, a few on the verge, and the remaining classrooms fell victim to the hallways mantra seen in the photos provided... "NO FLIPPING, NO SPINNING, NO FUN". Seriously, I can't make these things up. After talking to a handful of teachers and giving them our pitch, they were beyond enthusiastic to try out our charms instead. They loved the designs, and thought that since a student could play with them with one hand and because they didn't produce any sound, that they would effectively allow students to fidget without distracting themselves or others.
So far, the feedback and ideas they expressed about the spinners and cubes has been helpful enough even on its own. Soon enough though, we hope to have a class set or two available for the teachers to use in their classrooms so that they can give us qualitative data on how they affect a classroom over time. That's it for me today, back to work on the website. Until next time, Joe Hey it's Grace! Yesterday we took a trip to the Palace Theatre in Waterbury Connecticut and found out some really helpful information on how to prepare for the Expo Fest coming up. Natalie and I went to the media group to get our information and we realized there is a lot of decisions to make still about our presentation. While we are in GREAT shape with our social media accounts, we have to figure out the best strategy for our presentation with Joe and Barry. I think we will decide whats best for the team and it will turn out amazing. With Joe being informative and Barry being comic relief I love how we will be able to win over the judges. I have also been working really hard on our video reels and its coming along very well. We are going to send a video into the BIG PITCH and hope we get the opportunity to present in it.
Ok, I regret putting a pun in the title, but I'm lazy so I'll live with it. The Marble charm was, in all honesty, the easiest thing to make, and, therefore, the least tedious. I started by making three boxes in AutoDesk AutoCAD; One was 4mm in height and 2cm by 2cm with its base, the other two were identical and were each 1cm in height and 2cm by 1cm in base. I moved them together to form a 2cm by 2cm by 1.5cm box, and then subtracted a 1.6cm (in diameter) sphere from the whole thing. I removed one of the 2cmX1cmX1cm, combined the other identical piece to the base, and added pegs to the open corners of the base, and added peg holes to the separated piece. I found a marble that was 1.5cm in diameter, printed the model and badabing! We have the Marble Charm!
For all of you (like Natalie) who don't know it's epicness the title of this post is a quote from Star Wars The Clone Wars the greatest tie in tv show ever made cut down before it's prime much like the younglings from Revenge of The Sith. Anyway the first experiment has been conducted and can be considered less than successful. A number of factors have turned this experiment into a great learning experience for our future experiments.
Heyyyy! It's Jamie here! The week is finally over and it's officially SPRING BREAK BABYYYY! So here are the results of my week:
I put sleep above everything this week, so I'm expecting that most of the grades from my tests/quizzes to be not as great as they could be. I realized that sometimes you just need to get enough sleep (and here I am writing this update at 12:14 am, heh) to get through some things. Sometimes we need to take care of ourselves and put our mental and physical health first. I definitely know that if I stayed up trying to study, I probably would have done worse than if I didn't sleep. I'll just have to work on time management and trying to study in chunks rather than the night before. Now my next challenge is to bring up my test grades! :D I will leave you with the Snapchat story of some of the events that occurred at Bunnell today. Sorry in advance for my weird voice and laughing. BYEEEEEE!!!
This charm was challenging to make. In case you haven't seen the Spinner Charm, check it out on our designs page, the link is in the top right and it says Designs, seriously, check it out, I'll wait... you look at it? Good. Let's get started: First of all I started by making two cylinders that were 2 centimeters in diameter and 1 millimeter in height (and no, this post will not have the word cylinder 89 times). I then put them above each other with exactly 0.5 centimeters of space in between. I then created a box that was 2 centimeters in width, 1 centimeter in length, and 0.7 centimeters in height. I then connected it to the cylinders at their diameters (this is what gives it that arch shape). I then created two cylinders that were 1 millimeter high and around 5 millimeters in diameter. I centered these on the outward facing quadrant, and presto! (that's kind of a lame phrase isn't it?) We had a shell for the design. Then I created another cylinder, 2 centimeters in height, and 0.4 centimeters in diameter. I centered this in the middle of the shell and created a 4 mm diameter bar spanning between the 5 mm disks and through the spinning cylinder and boom! The second charm was completed.
Hi! I'm Mike, or as I affectionately nicknamed myself CAD Man. If you couldn't guess based on my self title, I lead the team that creates our charms on CAD (and by team I mean it's me and one other guy, Colin, nice dude, good on Autodesk Inventor). I figured that I should do some blog posts about what it is I do exactly, so I figured we should start with the first thing I created: The Roller. First and foremost, shout out to Colin, this was one of his charm ideas, and one of the five of the fifteen, or so, that we actually put into production. This was by far the easiest thing I have made, as all I really did was create a bunch of cylinders in Autodesk AutoCAD. Ok, so it's a tad bit more complex than that, you see, the first thing I had to do was create a cylinder that was 2.2 centimeters in height and 1.5 centimeters in diameter. With this made I subtracted half of the cylinder, and then I created another cylinder, this time it was 2 centimeters in height and 1.4 centimeters in diameter. I then centered this in the half cylinder and subtracted it from the cylinder to hollow it out (Fun game idea: Try to count every time I say "cylinder") . This is how I made the shell for the outside of the charm. Once this was done I had to start the tedious, migraine inducing, process of creating the roller part and the bar that would hold it. First of all, in order for any of these charms to actually work there needs to be at least a millimeter of space between the moving parts (and for those playing at home; this is so the parts can move). In order to get this minimum amount of space I had to do the following: Create a cylinder 1.8 centimeters tall and 1.2 centimeters in diameter, then I centered it in the shell (this is the roller), then I created a cylinder that was 2 centimeters tall, but only 0.4 centimeters in diameter (you still with me here? this gets hard to explain from here on out), I centered this so that it went through the roller and connected to the shell, I then subtracted this from the roller and replaced it with a cylinder of the same size and connected it to the shell. Finally, I created a hook and attached it to the top, printed it, and took a na- I did other stuff and wasn't napping.
Hello, it is Natalie again! I would first like to address Jamie's last post. I totally feel you sista! Break is so soon but I feel like I can't even enjoy it with the constant cloud I have over my head that is "college". As a senior, I've really been struggling with the college process and dealing with many rejections. However, I know that things will work things out and I'll end up where I belong! While college has been a main priority on my mind, I've been working extra hard to keep my mental health in check. I've been trying to drink more water, get more sleep, and trying to do some of my self-care methods more often. As I mentioned in my introduction on the "about" page of the website, I am a brand ambassador for the Canadian clothing line Wear Your Label. As part of being a brand ambassador, I was asked to write a blog post answering a few questions about myself. In the blog post I really opened up about my struggles with anxiety as a dancer, my self-care methods, role models, and even FLY Charms! If you're interested in reading my post you can find it here! My shirt in the photo above is from Wear Your Label and reads "it's okay not to be okay", one of my mantras! Natalie out! |
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