1001 Ways to Make Money If You Dare (75 page)

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463 MAKE ICE SCULPTURES.
Holy chainsaw action! Ice sculptures can be sold to wedding planners (in swan form) and partygoers (in luge form), and can win competitions (in beautiful creation form). For extra fun, play around with colored lights to illuminate your masterpiece.

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464 CREATE BOUQUETS.
If you have an eye for floral design, consider buying loose flowers from wholesale distributors and making your own bouquets. Since the minimum orders from wholesale flower suppliers are usually large, focus your first venture around a big holiday such as Valentine's Day and have your clients order their bouquets ahead of time. The markup in floral shops is huge, so you can offer them a discount while still making money. Just be careful of those thorns.

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465 SELL FLOWER SEEDS.
This is an especially good idea if you've grown a particularly rare or special strain of flower. Don't think you have the chops to sell flower seeds? Grow some sunflowers and sell the heads at a local farmer's market for the seeds.

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466 MAKE STAINED GLASS.
Create custom stained glass pieces for people in your community. If you can mimic a famous painting you can bring in the big bucks. Consider doing it mosaic-style; that way you can use scraps from a local glass store and save on your overhead.

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467 FIND AND SELL SEA GLASS.
If you live near a beach, spend a couple of weekends looking for sea glass. Once you have a respectable amount you can make jewelry or mosaics with the varying colors. Sell them on the beach or online.

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468 POLISH STONES.
Get yourself a rock tumbler (or better yet, borrow one from your rock-loving neighbor) and start polishing. You never know what hidden gem might be waiting for you until you've put in the polishing time.

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