From handbags to bondage gear con’t…

Well, maybe not so much a funny story as a long story!  Between handbags and bondage gear, it is a long story but a very interesting one.  You will have to read my book to hear it all.  Anyway, I started to explore bondage gear shopping.  I went into one shop, I lived in St Paul at the time, and they wanted $60 for a collar.  Wow, that was a lot, and that was the cheapest of the 3 or 4 that they offered.  I bought the $60 collar.  It fell apart after using it for a few times.  The hardware was sturdy but the lining fell out!  I was thinking, in the back of my mind, “what was I thinking, I could craft a better collar for much less, if I only have some leather and some tools”.  Then a friend of mine that knew I had a leather background asked me if I could fix a head harness of his.  I saw it and thought, “if I only had leather and tools”.  I looked into it and it turns out there was a Tandy Leather store within a few miles of the house, right there on the main drag through St. Paul.  I bought a few cheap hand tools and fixed that there head harness.  I also asked if he would mind if I tried to duplicate it.  And there you have it, my first pattern, then off to ebay…