More Pyro Pens

Hi all,
 I have been having some fun adding to my collection of hand turned pens which I have decorated using pyrography. My objective was to make 10 slimline pens and put them into my shop which I have opened on folksy.com.

The idea was to use any money generated from the sale of slimline pens to buy some of the fancier and bigger pen kits, which would provide me with a bigger canvas for my pyrography.

Anyway, I put all eight pens that I had so far decorated with pyrography into my shop and went on to make the ninth. This pen had a tulips design.

The photo doesn't quite do it justice, but I added it to my collection on Folksy on Saturday evening. I wasn't expecting any sales just yet, but low and behold, I got an email on Sunday morning saying that the pen had sold. I had mixed feelings about this; yes the money would be nice to invest in more kits and I was chuffed that somebody like my work enough to part with their hard earned cash for it, but I really liked that pen and had hardly gotten used to having it my collection.

 Thankfully the sadness didn't last too long and I was soon back in the workshop making another pen and burning it with my pyrography iron. This one was decorated with hare bells, which are one of my favourite wild flowers.

This is now in my folksy shop and pushing the number of pens on sale closer to my target of 10.

I have been asked by a few people how I manage to transfer the images that I want to do onto a pen, which is small and cylindrical in shape. Well the answer is, I don't. I draw the image straight onto the pen with a pencil before I burn it, but the process doesn't start there. In my next post I will explain how I go about getting an image out on my head and onto the pen. In fact, if anybody is interested in having a go I will be putting up two or three designs that can be copied.

One last thing I want to mention. One of my books, the one pictured below, will be available for a free download for 3 days from Wednesday 1st of March until the 3rd.

This is the first time that this book has been given away for free, so please grab a copy while you can. It's a bit too cold to go fishing at the moment, but the next best thing is reading about it.