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I had an IDEA. Some of you have heard about it. And it is this:
Quarter machine trades!
How do you do a quarter machine trade? You trade handmade art in quarter machine capsules! Here are some steps:
1. Participants post a wishlist and/or set of hints, guidelines and interests that will help others decide what to make for them. Can be as specific or as open to interpretation as you like.
2. Contact somebody else who has posted a wishlist and ask if they would like to trade.
3. Go out and buy something from a quarter machine. Take the original toy out of the capsule and make something else to go in there, using your tradee's wishlist as a guide.
4. In keeping with the spirit of getting surprise loot from an actual quarter machine, it is recommended that you do not make specific requests. However, this is completely up to you. It's your trade!
5. Once your prizes are made, put them in their capsules and mail them to each other.
Guidelines:
DON'T BE LAZY. Put as much effort into your half as you would like the other person to put into theirs. Materials needn't be expensive, but they should be durable and your work should look nice. Treat your prize as an art piece.
Make sure that you are both working with the same size capsule (if this is important to you).
Be creative! Consider the quarter machine capsule as a form of presentation, not just a container.
Be sure to sign your work, and/or the capsule that you send it in.
Prize suggestions:
Handmade sculptures or figurines
Flat artwork on tiles, sturdy cardboard, etc.
Pins/buttons with your art on them
Mods of existing toys*
Keychains, charms, bracelets or other wearable art
*These should clearly be MODS. I.E, don't just paint a plastic kangaroo a new color--sand off its head and sculpt a new one, attach wings from a different toy, glue spines on its back and then paint the entire thing in stripes. Put your mark on it.
I'm pretty excited about the potential of this project and would love to see it take off. Think of it! Collections of designer quarter machine prizes sitting in fish bowls. Well, that's where I'd keep mine. If this sounds cool to you and you want to participate, repost the rules or link to this journal, and then post a wishlist. This is something that will definitely be cooler if a lot of people participate.


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This is my wish/interest list:

Cryptids!
Monsters
Squirrels
Bats
Foxes
Lions
Seahorses
Crows
Old West cowboys
Plague doctors
Pirates
Science fiction (in general)
Original characters/creatures (yours or mine. Someone I’ll know)
Old traveling circus/sideshow mock-ups (artificial, please)
Aliens (lots of creative room here)
Sphinx cats
Dali
Puppies and kittens. Ridiculously cute ones.
Sifaka or Ring-Tailed Lemurs
Any other semi-obscure animals
Harpies or tengu
Werewolves
Tiny camera or tiny records, record players, musical instruments
Little (fake, please) food

If you want to go the fandom route: Anything vaguely Jim-Hensonesque, Alice in Wonderland, 1920s-30s era animation (black and white, rubber-hose style), Disney, Doctor Who, Yellow Submarine, Firefly, Death Note (ooh, Ryuk!), Monty Python, Lion King (try the Julie Taymor designs!), classic rock bands, anything Gerald Scarfe style (think The Wall or Hercules),Demonata, anything from Oz (preferably from the books, or Return to Oz)...


Current trades:
1.~Katimazie
2.~Dumpysaurus
3._______

(I will work on these in the order I accept them)





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