Leather crafting. I know what you mean about the soft deer skin texture. It's amazing. My friend in Cave Creek does that. She's made some beautiful feathered, beaded, laced medicine bags from deer skin... and other skins. She killed a rattlesnake on her property and turned it into a bag. I have an owl feather wrapped in deer skin to wear in my hair. Give it a try Alan. I think the badge lanyards would be beautiful!... and I know what you mean about the swipe dilemma.
I grew the great foliage begonias in Los Altos CA... That was decades ago. They were so beautiful mixed in with lush azalea in a beautiful raised granite planter. Where has the time gone?