I'm curious to see what the final products end up looking like - I'll let you all know what he comes up with. We've got someone here at work who just found out she was pregnant, so I'm on the lookout for one of the zoo switch plates as a possible gift for her. So far, only one thing has been sold, and that was a special case. He did a test cup while getting the sand casting rig de-bugged, using a plastic skull to ring the cup with little skull faces (I think he called it the "hemlock cup"). A couple weeks ago, at the metal museum's annual Repair Days, he tossed it in the auction that Saturday night. His stuff almost never shows up in auctions, so the crowd (mostly fellow artists from around the country and some local supporters of the arts) ran up the price quite a bit - it went for around $750. Alas, anything that goes in the gift shop will have a much smaller price tag on it.