It's a brand-new dance/We're bringin' it back ([info]ms_xeno) wrote,
@ 2008-03-29 14:09:00
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Magnets !!
Yeah, and you all thought the cards (2 1/2" x 3 1/2", w/an image area of 60 X 85 cm), were small. Each of these has a completed size slightly bigger than a quarter. I bought a couple of oversized hole punchers at the local craft emporium at the end of 2007, and I love them. So much easier than using a stencil to make circles.

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Tomorrow I'm mailing most of these out as gifts. I'm kicking around how to make them more cheaply, and with a larger image area, too.


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[info]sadie_sabot
2008-03-29 10:50 pm UTC (link)
is magnets?

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[info]ms_xeno
2008-03-30 07:57 pm UTC (link)
:p

Watch for my future line of tie tacks, thimbles, and microchips.

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[info]nevafeva
2008-03-29 11:44 pm UTC (link)
Very cool!

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[info]ms_xeno
2008-03-30 07:57 pm UTC (link)
:) Thanks !

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[info]lincolnzoe
2008-03-30 03:41 pm UTC (link)
Love them!

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Merci.
[info]ms_xeno
2008-03-30 07:58 pm UTC (link)
:) Oh, and I'll be doing guitar picks, too. Did I mention the guitar picks ?

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[info]jemale
2008-03-30 03:44 pm UTC (link)
Very nice...

Your patience in cutting out tiny mouthd and eyes never ceases to amaze.

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[info]ms_xeno
2008-03-30 07:59 pm UTC (link)
The cutting of such simple shapes is easy. Now, the locating, sorting and storing OTOH...

[slams back another coffee 'n bourbon]

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[info]tudorlady
2008-03-30 07:20 pm UTC (link)
Lennie and Harold ask: Got any with parakeets?

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[info]ms_xeno
2008-03-30 08:00 pm UTC (link)
Boys, it's not so easy to locate bird images of such a diminutive size. But I'll work on it.

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[info]alephnul
2008-03-31 03:46 am UTC (link)
Those are lovely. I would think a price of around $6 would be viable, although $3 would probably sell a lot more. Those are around the prices where I would start buying them if they were being made by someone I didn't know.

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[info]ms_xeno
2008-03-31 07:50 pm UTC (link)
Thanks ! :)

Based on my exhaustive (30 second) estimate of costs, I'd just about break even at $3. Without shipping, listing and labor calculated in. It may well be that without the "help" of factories in China, these might be better as some kind of promotion or gift ("BUY BEFORE Such-and-Such-A-Day and get a surprise gift !") than as a profit-making venture.

But we'll see.

Edited at 2008-03-31 07:51 pm UTC

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