My wand I crafted during my time of exile in the northern mountains.
This wand isn't particularly potent nor well-crafted. But it has sentimental value to me as the components were gathered by myself over my exile period(military service). I haven't really shown this to anybody and it has some lore behind its creation. So here it is.
The stone was given to me by one of my predecessors as he moved on. He said his predecessor had found it and crafted it into a necklace by fashioning a hole into it. And then my predecessor had engraved runes from a foreign land(chinese letters) onto it which read "lucky stone". And it's said it had served him well as such.
The body of the wand was found by me during an expedition with my fellow exiles. We were cutting down foliage to make a potential campsite. And for some reason, this one stem was sticking out, both of ground and to my eyes. I think the bend at the top was supposed to be the bottom of the plant originally but it was standing upside-down when I found it. Still attached to the ground, no less! I felt some odd attraction to it. And it looked to be of good shape for a wand. So after a few tugging, it came off into my hands and I brought it back with me.
Odd thing is, the hole in the "lucky stone" fit perfectly onto the short protrusion on the front of the wand like they were meant to be together that way.
If you look at the top of the wand closely, you may see that some extra plant matter is wrapped around it. It's a four-leaf clover I found and kept until it became dessicated. I wasn't particularly looking for one either. It just happened to pop out while I was looking at a bed of clovers. It can be quite cold in the northern mountains so the lively greens during the warmer season can be quite precious. At first, I felt bad to see it wilt after I selfishly removed it from nature. But had I not kept it, I would never have given it fitting companions as a part of a wand.
Finally, I applied some varnish I had for other personal projects and maintenance. And voila! My lucky wand was created.
To be honest, previously I only had magic tomes and not a big fan of other magical focus or media. But this wand had somewhat grown into existence by me. And I thought it went well together with my casting tome when held in each hand. Besides, I use mage hand to flip the pages all the time because I'm lazy anyway.
Anyhow, I haven't been doing much wizarding in quite a while and this community had reminded me of this wand. So thanks to all of you fellow practicianers and scholars of the arcane!