Deco-Baubles

Every new idea I get for a new product, seems to come from trying to find a way to get rid of scrap wood.
Take Deco-Baubles for example, they came about because of boxes of six inch pieces of wood that were consuming all the available storage space in and around my shop. I thought I could burn it up in campfires during the summer up north, but I soon found out that nobody can have that many campfires - unless you are a borderline Pyromaniac, so I dug out an old wood lathe I had in the basement and went to work, learning how to turn wood.

In the beginning Inge was not impressed with my skills at the lathe and neither was I for that matter - besides that, I had no idea what to do with all these little wood turned weird shaped "baubles" I was making anyway.  So I threw them in a box and put that idea aside.

Then a call from the Princess Potosa gallery set the ball in motion.  They were looking for some Christmas type items from their artists, Bingo!  A use for those little wood turned baubles that were gathering dust in the shop.
Our first attempts were pretty boring, so we dyed the wood and added a few beads, nothing to write home about.
The more we made the more inspired we got - Inge loves decorating our house with them, soon she was decorating family and friends houses with them.  She finds all kinds of necklaces on clearance racks and uses them as the chain to hang the Deco-Baubles from the ceiling.  She also uses small shepard's hooks for potted plants to liven up home decor.