Date: 12/23/25 7:18 am From: Kevin Abbott <0000ef19f7c2a9e3-dmarc-request...> Subject: Bird Design Discussion Group for Jabebo Studio
Greetings and Happy Holidays!
With thanks to the State College Bird Club community, we were granted an opportunity to invite interested people into a discussion group that would meet periodically to discuss ideas for new earring designs. Our business, Jabebo Studio, designs and produces earrings that promote nature themes through detailed images and interpretive packaging. I posted the same info I presented at the December 17 meeting at the bottom here. If you have questions please let me know.
Our best design ideas come from actual experiences in nature — either my own or through other individuals. Therefore, I am really excited to see what content we might turn up by networking through a discussion group.
I would like to try and set up a kick off meeting around the end of January. The location will probably be in Bellefonte. Please send me an RSVP, and I will try to set a best date and time to accommodate the people planning to attend. Probably we will have a zoom link or some way to attend remotely.
I have a list of three bird species I would like to discuss at the meeting. I plan to start with an overview of the design objectives and challenges we face in molding these designs. And then we will spend time on each topic. Feel free to do some research on your own prior, but you are also welcome to come as you are knowledge wise. When it comes to creativity there are benefits to both approaches.
The three bird topics for the first meeting are:
Long-billed Curlew
Dark-eyed Junko
Common Night Hawk
Even if you do not have time to get involved in a new project but have a story or an interesting antidote about any of these creatures then please do share with us and we will include it in our discussion.
Thank you to the Bird Club community for giving us space here! I’m sure this will be fun!
Kevin Abbott
Jabebo Studio
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Jabebo Nature Discussion Group
This experimental group plans to meet two or more times a year to explore topics related to planning new earring designs. Our objective is to uncover interesting insights about nature, leading to new design concepts. We would like to invite people who obsessively spend time learning about and observing nature relationships and who would enjoy a deeper discussion of the topics.
Why?
Jabebo Studio is dedicated to promoting biodiversity and education through its designs. One way to enhance the general perception of biodiversity is to cover as many species as possible and to curate the designs responsibly.
Jabebo Studio
(814) 353-1022 tel:(814)353-1022
213 E Bishop Street
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Discussion meetings would look like the following:
Prior to meetings, we will confirm two (or three) topics of discussion with as much notice as possible. This would give participants a chance to incubate their background knowledge and or do some research, if they are inclined.
Meeting part 1: Book club/focus group style discussion of introduced topics lead by Kevin Abbott, lead curator of Jabebo designs.
Part 2: Review previous topics and present results of how we proceeded to develop them into designs.
Part 3: Introduce new design topics and invite suggestions for future topics.
What can you bring to discussions?
* Bring your nature knowledge — from personal anecdotes and experiences, as well as your accumulated expertise.
* An interest in art and design is appreciated, however discussions will be focused on underlying concepts.
* Enthusiasm and joy in sharing experiences and knowledge about nature.
* It’s fine if you have no specific information to provide about discussion topics. We don’t expect questions to be answered. Discussions can provide direction and places to vet information.
What do you get out of it?
* Satisfaction — supporting our small business and our niche market of nature museum and visitor center gift shops.
* Pleasure of listening and sharing your input in a book-group-style discussion.
* Jabebo fans will enjoy participating and seeing our design process in action.
