It's a Marshmallow World...

...that has hardened and been converted to gears! Okay, not quite, but here is a piece I call Snowpunk, meshing gears, snowflakes, kumihimo, and this really great bead mix I found at Artful Bead in Carrollton.


No snow yet here in North Texas, and seeing Ontario and Kansas City on the news, I'm surprisingly OK with that. Besides, I grew up in the high desert of the Denver metro area, and March was our big snow month. One year, Mom wished for a white Christmas. It's known as The Blizzard of '84 to the natives. Worst part - a household shortage of toilet paper! 


Here's a closeup of the gears - I like them a lot and owe Christi Friesen (Hi from the other Christy!) for showing me the coolness available in headpins and stuff you can stack on little bitty gears!

Steampunkin' Pendant

This necklace is made of glass beads, copper chain, and a steampunk pumpkin pendant. I made the large bead mix, but it just needed something else. The copper chain strung on the multishaped. bead strand added the right touch.


Next up, Snowpunk! (Unless I get my steampunk turkey made)

It't time for the Great Pumpkin!

That's actually the name of this pin. It's the first of what I like to call Steampunkins. With the clock element and the watch gears, it just begged to be called Time for the Great Pumpkin. Do you think it's sincere enough?

League of Extraordinary Felines

Having been dragged kicking and screaming into steampunk by Christi, I find that I now really enjoy it, so I'll be creating with gears for a while. At the IPCA retreat, we had a competition to embellish a small round tin. I decided to do a steampunk cat because I hadn't seen one before. Well, one thing led to another, and with the advice of Rob Yost of Polymer Clay Express, I created... Macavity! He is the companion of Professor James Moriarty. Do not call him a nice kitty.

He is going to have nemeses though- The League of Extraordinary Felines will oppose his evil schemes. Look for Cheetah, the Kitten of Dorian Gray, Lucy, and others to appear!

He will have

Speedy Steampunk!

This is Speedy the Steampunk Dragon. He is a member of the SteamPunk Delivery Service (SPDs) so everyone calls him Speedy. Right now he has to deliver this important mineral to a very important scientist so he can make a very important potion in his super secret lab on a super secret island. He doesn't have time to talk so bye!

(I made him in a workshop with Christi Friesen)