Gabobn baion bilan bkloj n]noj, don’t you think? And furthermore, gapiobn b ainb[‘ab[0ojhm, if you don’t mind my saying so.
Yeah, you guessed it — The gibberish tells you that I’ve been at the jewelry bench again, this time trying to sort out the fancier beads and the more ordinary kind, and taking apart what doesn’t work.
I intend to give away most or all of the ordinary beads, keeping just the ones I really want to spend some time working with to create very rare and unusual wearables.
Thing is, by the time I’ve made it, I’ve sold it, and most of the items I make in 14k gold are strictly custom order — I only have what I’m working on for a customer, which keeps me on my toes without getting my feet wet.
What I mean is, I order the gold one day, get it the next or the next, work on it, ship it the same day. Works for me. Lucky we have a wholesale jewelry supplier right down the street, and we’ve been friends for decades.
Of course, decades go by rather swiftly these days. Only fifty years ago, I dared to skip. Now, I shuffle like Tim Conway. Well, no, not like Tim Conway. That was a joke.
More like Boris Karloff in The Mummy.
Okay, okay, enough humor. So I’m UN-making dozens of necklaces and bracelets, planning to re-use the parts to make new stuff that might be good for today’s market.
Plaids are IN next year, mark my words. Flannel will be the fabric of the season, and the hemlines will meet the necklines most of the time.
At least that’s what the New York fashion houses will be doing this spring. Meanwhile, I’m still making and peddling designs that I made thousands of years ago.
Why not? They still sell, and if you’ve never seen it, it’s new for you.
So I’m making linked copper necklaces for $50 bucks a pop. These are necklaces I made to sell for a couple hundred dollars, but it’s no good without a gallery — can’t get enough traffic to make the sales necessary.
On the other hand, I get to remake a whole bunch of stuff, and that takes up TIME, which is the whole point of time, is it not?
Now, if you want solid entertainment, you’ll want to get into a Diablo Safari right away. Entertaining? You bet it is, and it might be for you, too.
One of the things I really enjoy is waiting for a newbie to get through shopping. Gosh, there are so many things to buy in the shops, especially Charsi and that other girl, what’s her name???
Oh, yes, Akara. I think that’s right. Akara. She’s the one who sells you potions and stuff.
I was out on Cold Plains earlier this evening. I hope you never run into the dozens of wild savages of evil that I ran into out there.
I learned my lesson — it’s best to just poke about in Rogue Encampment, and let the other things take care of themselves. It’s dangerous out there.
If you do go out into Blood Moor and Cold Plains, you’ll run into the fastest attacking porcupine that shoots its quills out at you and kills you with a single thorn to the neck.
I hate that.
There’s nothing to do but hit the start button and deja-vu it — do it all over again.
I priced out the gold rings — I’ve made about a dozen — and they COST $700 and more to make, then I have to put work into them and sell them, supposedly at $3,500.00 a ring.
That’s not normal.
I’m convinced that the rings can’t be made cheaper, but I’m not convinced that rings are an essential part of daily wearables.
Looks to me like we’re in for a round of movies. I vote for “When Comedy Was King” and “Laughing Twenties” for starters.
I’m headed back to the jewelry bench to finish off a couple more pieces.
See You At The Top!!!
gorby