My Trip to the Promise Monsters Factory Chapter 4

It was time to sew on the eye. We placed a square of white backing on top of a plastic square ring. Then we placed the  fluffy blue square on top of the backing and pressed down hard until the square clicked into the ring. Then we laid on top the smaller pink square and slid the whole thing under the needle of the sewing machine. I pressed a button to sew on a Smarshmallow eye. It almost immediately started stitching the eye in the pink square.  After a few minutes a brand new eye was sewn onto the small pink square.We took everything off the sewing machine. We trimmed the edges of the pink square because the eye was sewn on in an oval inside of the pink square. They used special scissors for trimming to get close to the edge of the eye. Then we peeled the backing off of the whole thing. Now we put the Smarshmallow's bottom on the sewing machine. I typed in that I wanted it to say Eliza, my name, and it started stitch-stitch-stitching. Minutes later, when I pulled it off, it said ELIZA in big, bold, capital letters.

My Trip to the Promise Monsters Factory - Chapter 3

I laughed sheepishly.
Erin took me to the room with the vacuum switch and turned it off. She told me to pull on a tube. It came off. I reached inside and pulled. Out came the fur square, good as new. Zoe and Isaiah shook theirs. Now we would each choose fabric for our Monster's eye and bottom. Isaiah chose orange and orange, Zoe picked a lush purple for her bottom (I forget what her eye was),  and I selected sky blue with large polka- dots the color of clouds for the bottom, and for the eye light pink, so light it looked like white.

My trip to the Promise Monsters Factory Chapter 2

They had me choose a fabric color. I chose a super-fluffy medium blue. My brother chose the same,  only his was a nice, ripe-apple red. Zoe decided to make one too. Her fabric was a bright green with occasional blue tufts that looked as if they were growing. We went back into the sewing-machine room and each cut a square out of our fabric. We needed to shake off the monster fur in a vacuum. Erin led me to turn on the vacuum, and then we went back over to the vacuum and I held the fur loosely in my hand and shook it. The fur disappeared.
CLIFFHANGER

My Trip to the Promise Monsters Factory - Chapter 1

One day I was invited to visit the Promise Monsters Factory to see how the Promise Monsters were made and to design my very own Smarshmallow.  Smarshmallows are basically small, cute fluffy un-named Promise Monsters.  When my brother, my mother, and I arrived, Mike and his wife Erin and Mike's daughter, Zoe, were there. Zoe was eight years old, almost nine, just like me. Mike, Erin, and Zoe led us into a small room. There were boxes piled up by the door, a closet, and a table in the corner. We watched as Zoe made Promise Monster buttons. She placed something silver in a small machine, and on top of that a small, circular piece of paper with a Promise Monsters design on it. Then a small, clear, circle of plastic. Zoe then pressed down on the machine. It made a clicking- like sound, like a stapler. Finally, she pulled out a shining new Promise Monster button. My family and I oohed and aahed.


Then, they led us into a larger room with sewing machines surrounding us. Mike's son Jack was sewing  at one of them and a woman at another.  Farther back into the room, there were two counters, with an opening between them. Back by the sewing machines, there was a very large red machine with ginormous plastic bubbles bulging out of its sides and front.  Erin opened up the front and helped me load the giant stuffing machine. She then closed the door and had me press a button, and blades started chopping up the stuffing. Then, the Company led us into another room that had a closet within. It was time to design the Smarshmallow. . .

My Trip to the Promise Monsters Factory- Intro

                        My Trip to the Promise Monsters Factory  a true story

by Eliza Bradbury


                        Dedicated to Promise Monsters 






Introduction:
There once was a man named Mike. He and his children and his wife decided to start a company. They called that company Promise Monsters. Here's how it worked. The children  would design a monster, somebody would order, and with their stuffed Monster would come a card. It had a Promise Monster bubble sticker, a Monster Mission, and a scratch- off code. A Monster Mission was an assignment to do something kind to somebody. Each Monster had its very own mission, such as kindness posters to hide in unexpected places, or baking cookies for your neighbor. Then you would scratch off your scratch- off code, type it into the computer, and a reward, such as a Promise Monster pin or brooch, would come in the mail. Well, the family changed that. Now a trading card with your mission on it and a little Promise Monster button hanging from a clip would come with your Monster in the mail, and you would not order a reward. The  button would be your reward. But oh, there is much more to Promise Monsters than that.  You can read about it in My Trip to the Promise Monster Factory chapter one, coming out soon.