Lets see..........in my craft/junk room inventory few doz. mixed spoons have cost $0 20 inch ring have cost $0 6 sm baby food jars have cost $0 chain (lots) have cost $0 miles of copper wire have cost traded beads $0 time to assemble 2hrs? I'll work on project while dish washer , clothes washer and robot vacumm are running so No cost for my time. Yeah I'm positive most of us could do it for practicly nothing. I wonder where and how the folk at VTCo. manage to come up with those crazy amounts? Then what kind of person would pay such nutzo prices? CT

And I got the Rosemary one frm you! Thank you again! Even though I do not have a rosemary plant (they grow like wildfire here) I still have the silverware herb marker in my garden! It's so PRETTY! So you sell those on etsy??? I really have to look into that and find something to make that is small and unique to sell there. The glassware I just don't trust to ship... Love, Jules

Thanks for the compliments, Ya'll :D I make the wind chimes by pounding silver-plated spoons and forks flat. You don't have to flatten them if you don't want to, they still make a beautiful sound. I drill the holes in the handles, and either use a small silver plated coaster or tray and drill holes in that to hang the utensils from, or I use 2 silver plated forks and curl the tines of them, and wire them together, to hang the utensils from the curled tines. I use beading wire and crimping beads to hang them up, and a glass pendant to hang from the center. Boy, I hope that makes sense, I'm on my first cup of coffee :D For the spoon bracelets and spoon pendants, I cut them with a small bolt cutter, this is one of my favorite tools...it cuts nice and smooth, that's how they got the spoon bowls cut like that. I use 2 pair of pliers to bend the spoon handle for bracelets. For spoon bowl pendants, I leave a small piece of the handle to curl under to hang it with, if that isn't possible, I'll drill a hole to attach a jump ring to hang it with. I add little things, pictures, words, beads, dried flowers,glitter....and I use Clear-Cast resin. I buy it at Michaels, and you can use a coupon to buy it. It costs about $20 regular price, and you only need a small amount to fill a lot of spoons or bottle caps. I hope this helps! Kudzu/Cherry Here is a link that might be useful: Kudzu's Blog

I love your dragonfly! I got dragonfly wind chimes yesterday, I had finished shopping at TS when I started leaving my eye caught the tailend of a dragonfly sticking out. I asked & sure enough only the chimes were tangled. I got them straightened out & it's real sweet sounding. Actually you could make that a wind chime, making a hole at end of each knife & welding little ring in center to hang something down from. Might look more like an airplane tho! I like your leaf things of metal too & horseshoe waterer! Jan