Monday 27 February 2017

A First

Hi All,
Just a quick between post to let you know that the first book I ever published will be free to download from the 1st until the 3rd of March.

This is the first time that this book has been offered for free, so please grab a free copy while the going is good, it may not happen again for a good while.

Tuesday 21 February 2017

Pen Sales

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.