Craft Fair Prep

As I mentioned last week, I am signed up to participate in a craft fair for El Paso County.  This means that I need to have a goodly supply of ready made items for sale.  This also suggests to me that armor may not be the best selection for the people who will be coming to this fair.

Instead I have been working a whole passel of hair trinkets and other leather "stuff".  I plan to do Leather Hair clips, slides, trivets for the kitchen, maybe some books, and a passel of whatever hits my fancy for leather cuffs and bracers. 

Which means I need to be working! WORKING!And I have been.  You can see what I pulled together on Saturday in a few hours. This week I hope to do some detail tooling, edge beveling, shaping, and possibly some dye depending on the level of crazy this week happens to have.

Thursday is the awesome-monsters birthday, so I am not sure how much work will happen as I am trying to spend extra times with her...and the weekend is jam-packed and crazy. 

My goal for the fair is to have 40 items to sell and to make $200 or more. We will see what all I end up with, and what the prices end up being.  I never really know how to price things, so I may make Kelley (who is also doing the fair) price all my stuff for me, or Ray.  They love me enough to do the hard stuff for me.

I love how different each of these leaves ended up! I can't wait to see how they look as hair slides.

Sunday Game = New Waist Cinch?

We were gaming happily Sunday evening when I starting getting itchy fingers and pulled out my sketchbook and colored pencils and designed a new Waist Cinch. I have no clue who this one is for, or what size it will end up being on a person - But I have already cut and tooled the leather :)

Now my back, hands, and eyes hurt from all today's tooling and I wish I had put it off a few more days. But - I think I needed to make it.

It is a tree (almost tree of life style) but not knotworked. I will post pics of the concept art and the un-dyed tooling once I get them all scanned and uploaded and such. I am trying to decide where to go from here with the coloring...background and such are still in the air.

At least I am back to crafting?

PS - Remind me to rant about the incredible tool-box/chest I got for my birthday. It's awesome and I should share