The big boat rolled and pitched in the fury of the gale. Huge waves crashed across the deck, pummeling and tearing at the wheelhouse. The boat rolled again in a gigantic swell, glass broke and the box tumbled across the cabin, smashed against the rail, and descended into the icy depths of Lake Superior.
Time passed as the shattered box and its contents lay shrouded in silt.
"Ooooh! Look at this Dad!"
"What did you find, Ben?"
Five-year-old Ben and his Dad were picking their way along the rocky shoreline, looking for agates and interesting flotsam that may have surfaced during the previous nights storm.
"Hmmmm, said Dad,"It looks like copper or brass. Maybe it was banding on a box of some kind."
"Like for pirate treasure?" squealed Ben.
"Could be...Hey, we know someone would be interested in this, shall we give it to her to make into cool jewellery?"
"Yea!!"
Waaay back in May I had the opportunity to meet some of my Etsy Steamteam friends in the flesh at MakerFaire in San Mateo CA. They were all as wonderful as I had hoped, and I had too much fun to have it feel like work even though the hours were ridiculous !! One such friend is Sarah AKA Industrial Fairytale on Etsy. She is a marvellous artist, and she has been making some wonderful cast jewellery of late. Which brings me to the subject of this post! We cooked up a plan to trade work for work. I have been thinking about the piece she requested for a while but didn't get around to it until last week. I think the fellow came out nicely, and I can't wait to see what she cooks up for me!!!!
