Radio Host Talking Up Trinkets

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You can’t have radio legend Dr. Laura Schlessinger at your dinner table. But you can have salt and pepper shakers she handcrafted from clay – if you buy them for $75.

The shakers are for sale at Schlessinger’s online boutique, Dr. Laura Designs, which she launched earlier this month to sell jewelry and other trinkets she makes from glass and clay. The web store is affiliated with Schlessinger’s Sherman Oaks production company, Take on the Day LLC.

Schlessinger has been making and selling jewelry for 15 years, though until recently donated all proceeds to charity. Now she’s selling things to help pay for her growing stockpile of craft supplies, too.

“That gets expensive,” she said. “The decision was less ego, more pragmatic.”

Her items start at $75 and go up to $750. Schlessinger said she determines price based on the time, effort and cost of materials that go into making each piece.

Schlessinger worked in radio more than 35 years, dispensing personal advice and commenting on morality and conservative politics to an audience of more than 10 million. Two years ago, amid controversy over her use of a racial epithet, she announced she was ending her broadcast show. She now hosts a three-hour show five days a week to a smaller audience on SiriusXM digital radio.

She finds the craft business has rewards.

“To make something and hold it up and look at it and think, ‘I made this,’ it’s just such a wonderful feeling,” she said. “It’s a sensual experience without being naughty.”

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