handmade items for swap

[Op Ivy]

Just wondering if anyone here swaps handmade items into caches and if so what type of things you make?

[Zalgariath]

Do Pathtags count?

[listmaker]

I haven't made any swaps, but have swapped small pre-loved treasures in the past. I've often thought I should get off my butt and make some tiny, stuffed felt animals.

You don't need to swap; it's mainly folk with young kids who do.

[squalid]

We (well one of us) used to make acrylic fridge magnets, just used to leave them and not take any of the MacDonalds toys.

[FourW]

I have not hand-made swaps, but I have been hand-making the cache containers. Only put 1 out so far, but it is a box made of western red cedar that used to be a fitting in the house that became redundant, so I put it to a better use. The others are waiting for the right location...
I haven't thought of anything to make (out of wood) that wouldn't take too long.

[Op Ivy]

Zalgariath - now that I've looked up what pathtags are - yeah, they count - actually its the kinda thing I had in mind just didn't know they had a name. Have you made some? Got pics?

I've been thinking I might make some coins out of brass/copper/pewter - but they'd probably be more pathtags than swap items now that I understand how it all works.

Squalid and FourW - got any pics to share?

[Zalgariath]

100's of pics on Pathtags.com!

<------- Or you could look to the left! That is my tag. Lots of GCA'r have tags as their avatars and use them as swags, swaps, and gifts

[PrincessDiala]

Or you can check out the GCA shop ^ (up there on the green bar)...

[Just a cacher]

Op Ivy, what you're talking about making is "signature items". Sounds great! I love those! I like to see how inventive people are, and how much fun they have, making signature items.
I like pathtags too, of course, but they are quite expensive to get made. Some people start with the signature items, and progress to pathtags once they've saved up a bit.

You do whatever is your thing! Have fun with it!

Wendy

[Op Ivy]

Thanks Wendy - its taking me a while to get around all the terminology - will get there eventually...

[Dvixen]

I've done handmade swaps since I started - first set was magnets made with my photographs, some are bracelets and other jewelery, or a while it was a simple bag of random 'shiny things'. Handmade signature items are one of my fave things to find in a cache.

[SamWalkers]

We have some personal signature items out there:
There is the Bead Dawg series...


The Scrimshaw series...


and the Pewter Gnome series.


Usually we turn them into swaggies before setting the free.

[oz lurker]

I love my gnecro-gnome (thanks Phil!!!)

I was going to drop him in a cache and watch him travel, but I just can't seem to pry his sharp little teeth off my fingers!!!

I guess he staying with me (awww shucks )

[Op Ivy]

Thanks for sharing Sam - I'd get a kick out of finding any of them in a cache. I particularly like the middle one. How is the linework done? (Ink, etching?)

[SamWalkers]

The bone is cleaned sanded then polished.
The lines are scratched in and then tinted up with brown coloured pencil.