How much(!!)....

...would you pay for a set of chessmen?

I'm struggling with pricing - just for a change!! My chess pieces are almost ready to be listed, I just need to get some fabric to line the box

and weigh everything to work out the postage, but I've been doing some searches to try and find out what people sell handmade chess pieces at and you're looking at anything from a tenner up to 5 grand (yes really!!!)

Now obviously I'm not going to charge quite that much for mine, but, not including all the hours spent searching the internet for a box for them (!), or all the hours spent travelling to and from the pottery studio, there are probably around 9 -10 hours work in them. Now, supposing I were to pay myself the national minimum wage for them, that would make them over £50...

Is anyone going to be prepared to pay anything anywhere near that for these?

hmmmmm....

Drip......drip......drip........

I bought some bags this week which are now dripping purpleness all over my bathroom

and I have skulls dripping blackness all down my door!

Another thing that can't be hurried, but that I've been working on this week and is coming along very nicely (if slowly), is my chess set, which has now reached the glazed-and-waiting-for-another-firing stage

It's actually all looking scarily white at the moment, but ^^that^^ is - hopefully - what it will look like after firing!

Then all I'll have to do is work out how to package it! :-/

And I've also been working on a feature for the next edition of Creative Crafting, which has involved a lot of this...

...and this...

...and this...

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A sneak preview...

...of what I was working on yesterday...

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