Making your own swag

[+millieballon]

In the past I used my store bought, personal tags as swag in caches.
Lately I'm making more stuff myself.
My newest creations are small birdcoins, made from small stones and wood slices.
Bird coin Instructions can be found here.
Another project is: Georocks. Handpainted rocks with geocaching images and quotes.
Georock instructions and samples.
My favorites are the geobuddies: making new friends

Hope you like them and would be happy to see your version or other idea's

Edited November 23, 2017 by millieballon

[Frau Potter]

I love your rocks, and your easy-to-follow directions. I’m taking a Mandala rock painting class tomorrow, with my son and mother. I hadn’t thought to create swag with them. This is a nice idea. I’ll see what I can do!

[+HCompleto]

I really like the concept behind your geocaching rocks. It pretty much is a simple yet creative and original idea to create your own trackables (or SWAG)! Would love to find one of those in a cache!

[+qltnfnd]

Great idea and so much better than some obscure junk

[+BluesHiker]

Love these!  Thanks for sharing.

[+noncentric]

Very nice creations, and the instructions on the webpages are great too!

[+CascadeHandmade]

I love the idea of making your own trackables. Here are my homemade ones. Unfortunately, like most trackables, they keep getting stolen, or "held hostage" by other cachers who find them and don't place them in another cache. For that reason I hesitate to spend a lot of time and money on them. If they go "missing" (they are reported NOT to be in whatever cache inventory the last finder says they are) then I can easily just make replacement. If they are "hostage" (held by the same person for several months or a year) I politely email that cacher and ask that they be moved on. If the cacher doesn't respond to me, I "grab" it back, make a replacement and re-release. Frustrating; but it works.

I also like to make my own swag - things like carved/painted wooden tokens/coins, beaded bracelets, tiny crochet toys. There is another Hide it - Find it type game around my area that involves painted rocks, so I typically do not place those in a geocache, since it's part of that separate game which is designed mostly for children who do not have/understand how GPS works.

[+millieballon]

Cascade ad your work looks Great!

in another topic I saw you Lego.

i did make Lego goodies with molds.

the instructions are in Dutch but you’ll get the idea: Lego goodies

 

 

Edited January 7, 2018 by millieballon

[+DaydreamBeliever4]

I really like your art Cascade. Do you have instructions in english? How well does your drill work on the rocks? I'm a little nervous about breaking a drill. Do you have a store?