Hi all,
I can report that this week I sold my first pen on
Folksy.com . It isn't the one shown in the link but this one.
I put it Folksy on Saturday evening and low and behold, on Sunday I got an email to say that it had sold. This was a nice surprise because it allows me to reinvest the money from the sale into more pen kits. I am not aiming to make a lot of money out of this enterprise, but it would be nice to make enough money to buy more materials. It's strange how things work out because when I was younger, and slaving away in a factory to pay the mortgage and keep my sons in designer trainers, I always dreamed of starting a cottage industry so that I could make some extra cash. Now here I am retired, money is not such an issue any more and I think that making these pyrography pens could be a money spinner if I threw some time at it. Can you see how this is strange, because now that I have a product and the skills I no longer have spare time.
I once read that "most people are too busy earning a living to make any serious money" and that is very true.
Since selling that pen I have managed to make another one with harebells on it and put that for sale on Folksy too.
All of the pens I have made so far have been made from what is known as the slimline style kit.
The pens are in two pieces and have a twist action, they are also, as the name suggests a bit on the thin side. This means that I am very limited in what I can draw on the pen because of the lack of size. However, I have just purchased a new style of kit called a "Zeta," which uses only one piece of wood but it is thicker, which will give me more opportunity to vent my artistry.
I look forward to showing you some in the near future. In my next post I will show you my design process for doing the pyrography work. If anybody is interested in making pens like these and decorating them with pyrography they should find it interesting.
