THINK OUTSIDE THE GIFT BOX

The enthusiastic owner, neighbo rhood resident Debbie Wright, started making the Seed Sucker brand as a fundraising endeavor.

“I had been doing these fundraisers for my daughter’s school that were pretty boring,” she says, asking her website viewers, “Do we really want another bucket of cookie dough?”

Wright started making the ecofriendly and educational shirts as an alternative to the traditional school/ scout/team fundraiser. The fundrais- er with a facelift, she calls it, “that won’t cause your friends, co-workers or family members to go running for the hills when you show up with the dreaded catalog order form full of not-so goodies,” she writes on the site.

Wright recently moved the Seed Sucker team to a building at the corner of Swiss and Good Lattimer, where business will continue to bloom with several new lines and designs.

WEBSITE: seedsucker.org

PRICE RANGE: $24-$32 CONTACT: 214.370.9520 OR info@seedsucker.com

What goes well with a Big Boy Bone?

Delicious stocking stuffers. Flying Doggies makes homemade oven-baked dog treats from organic ingredients — your pup will woof ’em down. And co-owner Joe Reider will deliver the prettily packaged canine cookies to your door. Visit myflyingdoggies.com.

Big Boy Bones

Goodnews for those furry family members who love to chew on everything. (No, not your crazy cousin Eddie). This neighborhoodbased line is dedicated to the dogs. Samantha Abedin, who as a child learned to sew from her grandmother, was happily in the business of crafting fashionably feminine and nostalgic-looking purses, when a donation of high-end sample fabrics got her thinking outside the handbag and about the bones that her schnauzer Snoopy, who was recently diagnosed with diabetes, liked to chew into an unrecognizable rawhide wad.

“I decided to make him a dog bone [from the fabric samples] to comfort him,” Abedin says. “He seemed to love it, so I made my terrier Yahoo one as well.”

That marked the birth of her company, Big Boy Bones.

Now, if you’re thinking that letting dogs chew on expensive fabrics is extravagant — think again. At just $10 each, these bones are built to last.

“Yahoo usually destroys any toy you give him the very first night and his bone lasted him over a month,