Dowel Art?

I cut a dowel this morning to hang a quilt. I had a small piece of dowel left over and rather than tossing it into the kindling box I brought it into the studio... but what to do with it?!

 I can make bubbles...

I could roll it...

What about using this old feather I found... what would happen?

Here is the finished piece that started out with silver bubbles...

This is the piece that started off with rolling the dowel...

This blog post feels like the ranting of imagination gone off the path!