Making Chainmail

[Buster's Uncle]

One of Buster's birthday presents:



It's princess armor - one of those sleeve things, done in copper chainmail, that ends with the tip between the second and third finger.  Armor value non-zero -for the wrist, mostly- but it's a fantasy piece for a 13 year-old who's not grown out of the princess phase completely, but has grown quite fond of adventure fictions...

[Rusty Edge]

Well, the copper looks great. I suppose it's heavier than steel.

[Buster's Uncle]

I never noticed the difference, certainly not on something small like that.

[Buster's Uncle]

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00FKBR1ZG?ref_=pgi_5xb86tn5azi6ox7zex2j05fk4znj&tag=geminiadus-20&ascsubtag=pgi-DEL-1-DSK-M1L1qTiAVRLlbl5J

[Unorthodox]

oh...

Crap.  Where'd I put that....

[Green1]

You know, there are arts and crafts shows that may like some of your creations. There is a large subset of people that love handcrafts and fill their houses with them.

They are a lot less BS than Ren Faire (juried shows, required casting meetings, commitment for many weekends, dress code,some rennies, etc). Mrs. Green and I are going to do a fairly large show in New Iberia in March. It will be our third show total and first this year. Some of the smaller church ones even give you a table to use and are inside. Once you get one or two on your belt, you hit up the larger non-juried in your area.

...then you can get into juried shows (BIG money) and eventually get crafts guilded.

[Buster's Uncle]

Fooling with craft shows sounds like a non-starter, even for Mylochka, who's far less of a homebody than I.

-But tell me about what you've been doing, please.  Sculpey jewelry or something like that, isn't it?  Pics a big plus.

[Green1]

Fooling with craft shows sounds like a non-starter, even for Mylochka, who's far less of a homebody than I.

-But tell me about what you've been doing, please.  Sculpey jewelry or something like that, isn't it?  Pics a big plus.

It is sculpey. The Mrs. does most of it, I set up and book events, and do general labor. The stuff she does not want to do.

I hear you on being misanthropic and not wanting to deal with people. Having to book things, start up costs, travel, etc.

BUT...

We are talking small to medium income stream with..

 - NO jerk organizations who probably do not have your best interests at heart.

Even my best jobs really did not care about me. I was doing things that they themselves did not want to do many making times with only enough pay to deliver to the landlord and utilities and maybe a beer or three to wallow in poverty unless I did nothing but work. The moment I fell out of favor, got burnt out from overwork, maybe had challenges I was struggling with (usually exacerbated from crazy hours or lack of money), I could be replaced by any of hundreds of names from a full hard drive full of people wanting my spot. Either that or a friend of a friend of a friend they would prefer be there. The worst places made sure I knew that and put it over my head at all times.

 - Make your own schedule (to a certain extent)

During the make phase, if you want to work 2 AM to 12 noon one day you can. If you want to work 24 hours that day, you can. If you feel like crud and need a break, you can take off without having to spend money to someone with a doctorate proving you are sick because you might be "lazy and a liar". The only thing somewhat set in stone is when you go to the shows you have to be there at a certain time and stay there till a certain time. But even if you miss a show, all you lose is your booth fee and the opportunity to make money that weekend till the next show next year. You are not banned from ever doing crafts again nor need to go on a job hunt.

Those things are why I suggest it to anyone kind of artsy.

[Buster's Uncle]

I'm bumping this to say a few true words about my friend Green, whom I miss terribly.

He's an illustration of what I like to say that I gladly can work with ANYone basically well-intentioned.  Like, I've almost explicitly accused him of being a serial drunk poster any number of times, and he ain't even accused me of -at least- exaggerating, he being a good sport and not into drama as other than a favored spectator sport.  I do not post a fifty-dancing-Lal post of ecstasy when he calls me a "bitervet' at the BEST of times -for all that he's got a factual basis to fight on THAT hill- and a few times he's shown a failure of reading my mood in the timing bringing THAT bit of unloved teasing into something my back's really up about.  He doesn't listen worth a durn -see this thread- and sometimes spouts the MOST outrageous nonsense, especially problematic when he speculates on some bit of drama in this community underinformed.  I get a little nervous when I see he's posting in a sensitive thread, I honestly do.  It's rare that he posts entirely on topic to the thread he's in, not least because he's WAY more interested in MMOs than our 4xTBS.  He's definitely a weirdo, even by our local standards.

^All that's true.^  It is.  Also true is that I love this silly guy.  He's my friend, no malice in his behavior here, he likes me, and it's reciprocated.  He entertains me and makes me laugh - and I'm sure that's also mutual.  I just wish he'd stay involved for longer spells and drift away for shorter.  I miss 'im.