Spring On The Moon

I took the girls back to Moon Marble on our spring break tour of stuff that doesn't cost much.
I have to admit, taking Mo to a place with so much stuff made of glass is not free of stress. Worth it, though.
They have more than marbles. Chuck Palahniuk sent me a care package last year in response to pretty much the only fan-letter I ever wrote, and he could have bought everything from the severed finger to the sushi air freshener at Moon Marble. If he lived in Kansas instead of Oregon, that is.

In fact, he even could have bought pretty much everything on the necklace there. They sell semi-precious stones in the room with the marble Mo tried to heal by laying on hands.

The thing with marbles, like anything else, handmade is something you should expect to pay for. The marbles they pick for demonstrations are ones that can be made in 15 minutes. Figure it for yourself, whether you're a fry-guy or a CEO, what would you charge for something you could only do four of in an hour? What about a softball-size monstrosity that takes all week?
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Not that there's not room in the world for machine-made marbles. There are effects you can't get with machines, but it would hard to get the effect of millions of marbles available dirt cheap with old fashioned lampwork.