The Fancy Butter Club

The Fancy Butter Club A crowded ink-and-butter-yellow doodle. Thirty-nine butter sculptures, each one an unbuilt business idea, are piled on a bank of clouds with more clouds layered behind. Underneath the clouds, the words Fancy Butter Club are stacked in three hand-drawn lettering styles, with the butter letters just starting to melt. probably good ideas $ BIG ! 7 #1 ? ? $

Poke a sculpture to meet the idea.

Years ago I was a wedding photographer, and at every wedding the caterer was trying to make the butter look fancy. So I had an idea: a butter company. Butter moulded into shapes worth putting out at a wedding, a feast, a Thanksgiving dinner.

Every time I came up with one of these, my wife was ready to go. Let's start the business. Eventually she worked out that I just like coming up with the ideas, and have never once followed through on one.

So "fancy butter" is what she and I and our friends now call an idea that might actually be good and that none of us is going to build.

This is the list so far, sculpted in butter.

The collection