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Jan. 3rd, 2006 01:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theyellowhobbitI called Adam, and asked if he got the kippah yet. He said he wasn't sure whether or not it came in today's mail, since his mom must have taken the mail to work. So he wouldn't know for a while.
He had shown the picture of it that I sent him to his brother, who thought it was awesome.
What can I say? I know kippot. :)
If only I could become world-famous, and charge tons of money for shiny scarves and custom kippot and hats and whatever else I can figure out how to make. Then I could be financially independent, and not worry about how little grad school will pay me as a stipend for the next 7 years of my life.
I wouldn't even need the kind of fame where people point to me on the street and say "that's Rachel!" More like someone would walk up to someone wearing a kippah and ask "is that an authentic Yellow Hobbit kippah?" "no, it's a fake I bought in a back-alley of Ben-Yehuda street." "oh, sorry, I'm only interested in guys who wear the real thing."
Or that my work could be complex/fancy enough to merit charging enough for me to make a living wage. As it is, if I charged 20$ for a kippah, my guess is that the easiest kippah, done all in one sitting, would take about 10 hours. That's 2$ an hour.
Maybe I should look into making the ones with wire, like this http://www.kippot.com/
It's not really my thing, but she charges 100$ for something like that. If materials costed 20 at most, and she took 5 hours to make one, that would still be 16$ an hour. I have a really cool one that I wore until some time freshman year, when I was frumming out. It's pretty, and I miss wearing it.
Some people do pay insane amounts of money for a scarf. http://www.armchair.com/store/things/artscarf.html
179$!!!!!! It's straight knitting. The yarn might cost 40$ or even 80$ but that would still be a 99$ profit.
I gotta get me some designer yarn. The stuff that Jon gave me for channukah might work.
He had shown the picture of it that I sent him to his brother, who thought it was awesome.
What can I say? I know kippot. :)
If only I could become world-famous, and charge tons of money for shiny scarves and custom kippot and hats and whatever else I can figure out how to make. Then I could be financially independent, and not worry about how little grad school will pay me as a stipend for the next 7 years of my life.
I wouldn't even need the kind of fame where people point to me on the street and say "that's Rachel!" More like someone would walk up to someone wearing a kippah and ask "is that an authentic Yellow Hobbit kippah?" "no, it's a fake I bought in a back-alley of Ben-Yehuda street." "oh, sorry, I'm only interested in guys who wear the real thing."
Or that my work could be complex/fancy enough to merit charging enough for me to make a living wage. As it is, if I charged 20$ for a kippah, my guess is that the easiest kippah, done all in one sitting, would take about 10 hours. That's 2$ an hour.
Maybe I should look into making the ones with wire, like this http://www.kippot.com/
It's not really my thing, but she charges 100$ for something like that. If materials costed 20 at most, and she took 5 hours to make one, that would still be 16$ an hour. I have a really cool one that I wore until some time freshman year, when I was frumming out. It's pretty, and I miss wearing it.
Some people do pay insane amounts of money for a scarf. http://www.armchair.com/store/things/artscarf.html
179$!!!!!! It's straight knitting. The yarn might cost 40$ or even 80$ but that would still be a 99$ profit.
I gotta get me some designer yarn. The stuff that Jon gave me for channukah might work.
