A New Beginning

 

That’s right, a new beginning, and that’s what it’s going to take to get through this next year’s Work Intensives, Workshops and Clinics.

We’ll be exploring a whole new spiritual technology.

First on the list is the Guardian Angel Amulet, the most popular ammy I’ve ever produced. It is simply amazing, but you’ll have to read the testimonials for yourself!

Secondly, I’ve made a few Guardian Angel Pendants, Earring Sets, Bracelets, Rings and other items of daily use — they’ll do well as a reseller item, or a premium for one of your clients when they make a major purchase or commission, or you might think of other uses for these delightful products of my studio workshop.

All the items mentioned here were made by me, generally to demonstrate the techniques, which are available just for the asking. I will teach anyone who wants to learn, like it says in the song. Continue reading

Stuff For Sale

Here’s a short list of some stuff you could make, search & find or prepare for sale:

  • Painted Rocks — cheap, inexpensive to make, doesn’t cost very much, and there’s not a whole lot of money involved, although with the right artwork, you can get up to $50 for a painted rock with no problem, and more if it’s in a gallery.
  • Incenses — Either a blend of incenses or a group of your favorites, or you could try making incense yourself, although I predict that sooner or later, you’ll end up buying and reselling, instead of spending all your marketing time making incense.
  • Chocolates — Never mind about them expensive truffles, although we do offer them in winter and spring shipping weather. We’ve got the ideal — a powerful 72% pure chocolate that is 100% wholesome and 100% delicious, for the price of only 25 cents per package, wholesale. You sell them for $1 apiece, you make 75 cents on every transaction, and boy, does it add up fast at this price! On the right streetcorner, you could do quite well. Forget the huge expensive chocolate samplers — too much money, too much chocolate, not good chocolate but commercial grade crap. Stay with the program, stay on target, sell these at 2 for a dollar and you’ll still make money and you’ll help the community stay in the flow!
  • Earrings — These are of the Czech wood variety — light, easy to make, cheap to make or wear, and they look absolutely great! The colors are wild and astonishing, and everyone will notice these earrings! They sell RETAIL for only $10, and I show you how to make them fast & easily.
  • Meteorites — Not very easy to obtain small ones, might be too much trouble, but these are always going to create excitement, so maybe you can work out a way to sell them at a dollar. Your cost would be around 50 cents for the stone & package.
  • Lucky Pennies — These are easy to find and do really well as a giveaway, with some purchase, however small it may be. I like to give them to anyone who shows any interest in the shop whatsoever — it’s a great way to get your business card into someone’s hands without pushing the card in their face.
  • Lucky Rodneys — These are a bit harder to sell — they retail at $10 for the capsule variety, which is what sells the best. These you don’t give away — you can’t afford it. These are meant to sell. FREE is the Lucky Penny, if you wish, and not the variety called “Double Lucky Penny”, which is always in a capsule. Figure that the capsule plus the package costs you about a dollar, so get some cash for this item. The plain old “Lucky Penny” is just a penny and the package, so the cost out of pocket is about 10 cents, including the penny. Don’t forget that you’re giving the customer cash as a gift just for coming into your shop. Reward their interest and you will be happy.
  • Zombie Family Hot Popcorn Topping — Our Zombie Family Popcorn Topping is what you will be offering to customers. The hot freshly popped popcorn is in half-filled paper bags inside the professional concessionaire popcorn machine. You offer a small Dixie cup filled with a bit of popcorn and a small dose of super spicy hot popcorn topping as a sample. If they like it, they can buy a bagful of hot popcorn in the paper bag. You simply tap in the hot topping on the halfway filled popcorn, then fill the bag the rest of the way and shake two or three more times on the topmost layer, and hand to the customer. The Zombie Family Authentic Cajun Hot Popcorn Topping you will sell by the table-quality shaker, at only $9.99 apiece, and you get a LOT for your money!!!
  • Zombie Family Hot Sauces, BBQ Sauces & Steak Sauces — These are amazing and quite delicious. They taste it, they buy it. Have samples ready for your crowd and roll them bottles out!
  • Handpainted Chess Sets — I do these both as a single-face and as a double-faced piece set. The singles are mounted face-up, and the doubles are mounted on a wooden base. They are painted both sides so both players can see which piece is which. The symbols are VERY easy for any chess player — they are the standard symbols, but I also make other sets with very different designs, keeping in mind that chess is a military style board game. The “castles” are actually “towers”, rolling towers for scaling walls, and the horse represents an entire mounted cavalry unit, while the bishops are the elite troops, the Queen is actually her regiment, and the same with the King. The pawns are just the cannon-fodder they always were, to be driven forward by the lances of the Royal Guard.
  • Backgammon & Checkers Sets — These I make with perfectly round or nearly round stones, which are uncommon, therefore the sets are not plentiful. Allow a couple of weeks for me to find the rocks before I can even get around to painting them.

By the way, all my rock paintings are signed, with the singular exception of the Flying Heart Stones, which are offered at 50 cents apiece, if you plan to resell them — the usual price will be a dollar each, but some folks will give you more, if you look sufficiently pathetic. Joke.

Those are just a few examples of the stuff you could be helping to flow out into the life of humans of planet earth.

See You At The Top!!!

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Rocks & Luck

The giant print flipper allows pieces up to 30″x40″ to be shown.

There’s this big chunk of mountain that comes crashing down to the river some 540 million years ago. It gets broken up into smaller pieces and then eventually is ground down to a bunch of smaller stones that get buried in the gravel bars of the rushing river.

As they roll downstream, they contact other similar rocks in the river and, just like it happens in a lapidary “tumbler” device, the stones grind and polish one another.

The process can be sped up in a lapidary workshop, merely by adding some grinding abrasive compound — it’s a simple cutting powder that you’d put into the water in the rock-tumbler.

The rocks in the tumbler go ’round and ’round, grinding against each other, sometimes for months, but it’s a LOT faster than the river method.

If you were to produce the ringstones and brooch stones that I offer in my rock shop, and you had to glue a dop stick to the back of the stone and hit it with a diamond cutting wheel, and then shape it, form it and polish it, that would be the work of several days.

All I have to to is hop into the car and drive 55 miles away to a landscaping yard where they have enormous bags and heaps of rocks, and select the ones I want, get them weighed and priced out, pay the invoice, load the rocks into the trunk and drive back home, another hour’s drive.

In all, I spend about an hour to an hour and a half choosing the rocks that I want to get. We’re pretty friendly with the landcape arts people, and they help us quite a lot to get loaded — in the freighting sense of the word — and they often have suggestions about rocks that they’ve just gotten in. Continue reading

A Rare Coin is a Lucky Coin

Wynton Marsalis and Jazz at Lincoln Center with my painted “JazzArt” backdrops.

You can now buy almost any of my JazzArt backdrop paintings, even those used in performances with Nancy Wilson, Wynton Marsalis, Herbie Hancock and many more world-class jazz musicians in concert around the world.

My JazzArt paintings must be safe, out of the hands and reach of those who would burn all art work that isn’t about Donald Trump, and that will happen soon enough, much sooner than you think.

Book burnings and art burnings are only the start — eventually it’s people burnings, and that’s when we want to be clear away from the source of pain that is Trump and his Minions.

I’m doing everything I can to get these paintings out of the Untied Snakes of Arnica, so the prices are absurdly low. Continue reading

“Luckiest Amulet in the World”

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Would you like to own a copy of the Luckiest Coin Amulet in the World? Here’s how it works:

I send you a 1999-P Lucky Rodney Quarter in Bright Uncirculated condition.

Your 1999-P BU Lucky Rodney Quarter is TOUCHED to the Master Rodney Error Coin in its PCGS Slab Container.

Your coin is similar to the Master Coin, but it is not an Error Coin. It is a high grade NORMAL version of the 1999-P Delaware State Quarter with Caesar Rodney on the Reverse.

When I touch your NORMAL NON-ERROR coin to the Acrylic Slab containing The Master Rodney Counter-Clash Mint-Error Ultra-Rare Quarter, it causes the “Luck” to rub off onto your similar coin, like stroking a needle with a magnet.

You can try this experiment. Place the magnetized needle on a cork coaster, and watch it turn and float in the water, where it will come to rest, and accurately point both North and South, just like any other compass.

Maybe it’s time for YOU to find your own Million-Dollar Coin, while wearing your new Lucky Rodney Amulet! Continue reading

Best Deal Ever!!!

First of all, let me inform you about a few important coin facts you might not know. Number one on the list is the growing popularity of State Quarters, which in fact includes Territories, State and Federal Parks and scenics from the series, “America the Beautiful”, which with the EPA totally gone, will be the only things left from that era of natural beauty which was the now-destroyed Obama Legacy.

Gosh, I’m waxing eloquent on the subject of local politics again, but it’s not politically motivated — I’m merely trying to establish the future scarcity of anything resembling natural beauty, and that includes U.S. Quarter Dollars prior to the Rule of Trump.

You might not know what’s coming, but I do, and it doesn’t include ANYTHING that wasn’t made in honor of Trump, and that means ALL currency that doesn’t have HIS picture on it.

Like I said, I’ve seen this a billion times before, and it never gets old, haw, haw haw!!!

Joking aside, this is a great chance to make a BUNDLE, enough to establish a getaway outside the United States, and the Bugout Pack that enables YOU to get to your safe harbor.

I’m looking into a Safe Harbor somewhere close to here, but always with the expectation that we might be forced to leave the continent, should Canada and Mexico fall prey to someone’s sense of destiny. Continue reading

Make Yourself Luckier

Create some luck in yourself, then make yourself luckier. The point is, why stop there? Why not make yourself still luckier, and keep on doing that luck thing right through the roof?

There’s no limit to the luckiness, provided you share it. If you have sharing problems, you’ll undoubtedly try to keep it for yourself, and you might abuse your gift, in which case, you never quite get it, and we’re all just a bit better off because of it.

“Joy Luck” is a shared lucky streak that benefits everyone, not just one person, or one family or one neighborhood.

Cooperation is the key, competition is the lockout. People are not built to be naturally cooperative. Like all jungle animals, they tend to compete.

In the Human and Brute Worlds, conflict is everywhere.

It’s possible to live in a place where cooperation replaces conflict, but it’s always in danger of being overrun by Neanderthalic Forces. Continue reading

Change Your Luck Today!

How can you change your luck right now, today?

That’s probably the best question you will ever ask yourself, and the answer is both simple and easy — win a million bucks at the lottery.

Problem is, the lottery costs money if you don’t win. Eventually, it grinds you down to your last buck, and that’s when you realize you should have been playing the FREE lottery run by the U.S. Government every time someone at the Denver, Philadelphia or San Francisco Mint makes a mistake.

Mistakes everywhere else are just plain old mistakes, but when it happens at the U.S. Mint, you get a Mint Error, and that means money in the bank for collectors and coin hunters, such as YOU.

Yes, you. Continue reading

We Are Shipping!

This quite findable ERROR “Low Leaf” Wisconsin Quarter is valued at $8,000.

Are we shipping? Yes, we are. It’s keeping us all jumping, especially Jewel, who is making her third run to the post office, Fedex & UPS today, although that many trips IS unusual, but that might be changing, in which case, we’ll be yelping for help in the shipping department.

Last night, I managed to finish 13 pairs of sterling silver quarter-sized “Proud Immigrant” earrings, along with a corresponding number — 13 — of sterling silver “Proud Immigrant” Pendants to make the sets complete.

The pendants come ready to hang on a chain. They are made right here in California, and are therefore just a bit more money than something thrown together in China — they retail at $39.95.

You get the entire three-piece set for only $55 wholesale — the coins are a gift.

What’s more, I’ll send you a black velvet “Stormy Monday” Display Bust with one pendant on a solid sterling silver chain, plus a pair of coin earrings, all in solid .925 sterling silver except of course the coins, all for the low, low price of $85.

How do I do it?

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New Gold Rush!!!

This DDO on the Washington D.C. Duke Ellington Quarter is worth $5,000.

I’ll be walking into Foggy Mountain Music in Grass Valley a few days from now, bearing a pair of “Duke Ellington” U.S. Quarters earrings and a matching “Grand Ol’ Opry” Tennessee State Quarter pendant that sports Nashville style musical instruments.

I could just as easily make a pair of earrings that features American Naturalist John Muir, at Yellowstone National Park, with a matching pendant or complementing locket with an Alaskan Bear or a Mountain Goat.

You’ll find everything from the first Kitty Hawk Wright Brothers airplane to the latest space orbiter on the state, national parks and America the beautiful U.S. quarters. Continue reading