While shopping at a crystal shop with my daughter this summer, I spied the cashier using a pen decorated with a peacock feather. She offered to let me take a photo of it and I made a few of them to give out as small holiday gifts this year.
I removed the caps and ink cartridges from my pens before spraying them gold. When dry, I used air dry clat to affix the feathers into the pen tops. The tops appeared lumpy, so I would gold crystal-like ribbon around the clay after painting it gold to match the pens. I had more but I gave away a few of them before taking a photo for the blog. People seem to like them...
The pens were from a Staples clearance sale, and I made sure they all still worked. The peacock feathers were from last year's thrift shop purchase. each pkg of three cost me $1 and held three feathers. I used two feathers on each pen.
I actually sold these at the craft fair in which I participated at the end of summer. I thought they'd make nice little holiday gifts. At the time, I figured if they didn't sell, U could always use them for little gifts as well.
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Very elegant!
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