Blast From The Past.....

Wow, looking through some of my older digital pictures I came across my Pond Scum!  These started out as Semi-Mobile Sentient Plants, when I was selling at science fiction conventions back in the 1990's, but they didn't move at all at Pennsic War for four days.  It was only when I renamed them Pond Scum that they took off like crazy, I sold over 55 of them in the next three days.

 

Go figure.  Simple name change, nothing else.  People are weird.

 



 

They were baseball sized, a 'leaf' on the bottom, one or two eyestalks, and a bit of fake fur around the base of the eye stalks.  I just got so tired of making those that I stopped.

 

The other things in the picture - in the back right are bags of juggling balls (rice stuffed for weight on the three balls), and the silver glittery things on the left are Leeches in metallic looking armor (that confetti metallic fabric).  Those sold at $2 each, no lie.  Leeches were a 'must have' item at the SCA event every year we went.  I stared with plain ones, then when a guy came up to show me his costumed leech....OMG.... it had a tiny crown on it's head, an ermine trimmed red cape and a tunic and belt.  After that I had to start making half my leeches with little outfits.

 

I had belly dance leeches, royal leeches, mummified leeches, fighter leeches, Scottish leeches in kilts with tiny sporrans, and even plague leeches.  People loved them. They started buying a different kind every year and 'collected' them like merit badges.