Hopefully this is the right place for this one :)

I'm not putting these in with members' internet endeavors because I don't have a website for them and currently do not plan to try retailing them again. Why? Easy: the photo titled Stevi tree display. I was flat out given that huge table at the front of one of just two bead & jewelry supply stores I know of in the county. It so happened to be at the more affordable, less snooty one and was lined up to coincide with a local custom called First Friday, when merchants put out special displays, restaurants have FF specials, and all kinds of neat stuff goes on once a month. I put out 76 trees, ranging in price from $5 to $50. And I didn't have to be there for any of it, eliminating my total lack of what an old friend used to cal "the sales weasel gene" as a suspect because over the course of the entire month...

One sold.

ONE.

I'm so glad I didn't have to shell out like $50 for the table space! And I think with the arts and crafts market so badly damaged because art and trinkets are the first to get cut from most budgets around here when the economy sucks that this seems like a good time to not push it. If I could make a survivable arrangement with someone who HAS the sales weasel gene and some serious unoccupied time, I might try the farmer's market in summer and craft fairs in winter, but only time will tell. I will keep making them because they are the absolute best physical therapy for the osteoarthritis in my hands. And when the time comes, I still have lots of 'em if anyone wants to trade for them. When I set up that table, it turned out I had forgotten a tomato-box lid (from the grocery store cardboard boxes) with about 40 more!

The other pic has a horrendously pun-tastic title (if any SCA members are reading, no smackin me with a rubber chicken; I got my TWIT in the 90s but have never been consistent enough for a WOAW). It's the gift I made for my parents for Christmas in 2012, when they had just gotten back together after possibly the world's longest trial separation--time enough for 2 other marriages for both; Carter was still just barely in office when it started I kid y'all not. The wires are brass and copper. The stones are my best match to their birthstones on my budget: Australian opal from a low-grade strand, tourmaline, and low-grade sapphire. The rock it's all wrapped around is one of my Crystal Park finds because my mom loves quartz in many of its multitude of forms and I wanted a base that wasn't bought.

Any non-SCAdians wondering wtf TWIT and WOAW are about are free to let me know ;) It's safe for work, even!