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Looking for ideas for product
So, I am going to have a booth at a new-agey/pagan friendly fair in late April. I'll be doing a booth at a local Pagan Pride event in September. So I am looking for any ideas people might have of what I might put in them.
Right now I am planning the following:
carved rune/ogham/etc sets (wood, stone, shell)
etched glassware (shotglasses, steins, coffee mugs, oil lamps, wineglasses, decanters, scrying bowls and mirrors, plaques/mirrors with quotes)
engraved sunglasses (small images or phrases in the corners or edges of the lenses... I figure it is a good fairly inexpensive item)
engraved trophy metal (a plastic coated metal- etched lines show the metal) with images from old grimoires and wood cuts and such.
Any ideas? Even crazy ones? Even the impractical ones might spark something I can do....
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2/18/2009, 10:28 pm
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Re: Looking for ideas for product
I have done metel... and I plan to try knives eventually... but I really would like a microscope to do it with. With the tools I have, the bit slips if you try to just pull the line on metal. The way I was taught works around it by using little dots. But with that I can work on anything from soft cheap costume jewelry to titanium.
I also worry about time to do any well for April. I do want to have that by Pagan Pride (I like your athames by the way... one thought was to dress up a few... I may be ordering a few come summer if I think there would be a market for them-- cheap junk unfortunately often sells faster. It might max out what people would be prepared to spend at the fair. But I have had a vision of a series of blades with designs that dance up the both the handle and blade....)
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2/19/2009, 10:23 pm
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Re: Looking for ideas for product
Almost forgot... Thanks. I'll play with those a bit... and post pics when I'm done, and let you know how they did...
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2/19/2009, 10:25 pm
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Re: Looking for ideas for product
I also watched a friend build a few... knives are very much on my list. The problem is a full time job that I use to pay bills. It eats 40+ hours a week.
Current plan... find a way to support myself with the art, drop the job and then try to expand....
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2/21/2009, 2:14 am
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Re: Looking for ideas for product
I really do like having a job (I am VERY relieved to have not been one of those laid off)... and I even like parts of this job... but I want to own my own time. I don't want to have to choose between 40 hours a week or living on the streets.
I am going to make it work.
I had a good encounter the other day. I had a long lunch to take care of some business downtown. It took less time than expected. On the first floor (where I had to change elevators) is a rather expensive store. In the window was an etched vase... blue with fish on it. My first thought was "the artist was sloppy with their lines." 
I looked at a lot of other things (I went in) and found a lot of things that I can do now or believe I will be able to do ranging in price from a few hundred to a few thousand dollars. I also left with catalogues with pieces up to $65,000 which I believe I will eventually be able to do.
It helped me really understand at the gut level that this is where I am going to compete. Not with Walmart. But with companies like Stueban. The little voice which said "I couldn't possibly charge enough to be worth it" shut up when I held something I know I could do selling for FAR more than I would have dared.
It will take time to get there... but it really is an option, not a dream, not a wish, not a hope. I've held it in my hands.
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2/23/2009, 12:46 am
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I may have to find that book.... Thanks!
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2/25/2009, 11:14 pm
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