Coming very soon to Art of Adornment - another Time Traveller's Top Hat. This one is based on a much taller "caroller's" style top-hat. I just finished it tonight and Elaine still has to get a good picture of it for the store before it's officially for sale. |
Another steampunk-inspired top-hat. This is a bit more goth, though. I'm actually not a big fan of brown. The hat itself is premium wool felt with a white satin liner. The hat-band is distressed vintage leather. The gears and clockwork are vintage brass and steel German clock parts painted with gloss-enamel rust paint. The hands on the clock gear can be moved to any position and the spring steel "feather" has a really fun bounce to it when you move. The hat was made for sale at Art of Adornment and as of this posting is still available here. |
You may recall that I bought some gears a while back. Here is the first fruit from that crop:
The hat will be for sale in Elaine's store tomorrow. If it is well-received, there will be many more like it (but no two will ever be the same). Each gear is hand-sewn to the hat, as it the leather hat-band, and brass "feather". The gears on the stalk of the "feather" are soldered while those at the ends are held by the wire. The hat itself is quality 100% wool felt. |
[EDIT] This keyboard mod was mentioned in the August 23, 2008 edition of the Sydney Morning Herald.
I finally finished that "secret project" I started exactly two months ago - a Steampunk keyboard mod. |
I finished the tree tonight. The orange pumpkins have blinky light emitting diodes, shown in the inset. While not show-at-the-VAG art, this was fun to make in a Martha Stewart-eque craft kind of way. Not counting the Sally globe, the materials were less than $20. |
Here's a better picture of the tree after the first coat of paint. There'll be at least one more coat (you can see some areas aren't well covered yet). I have an evening photography gig tomorrow night so I probably won't get the second coat on until Wednesday. Thursday after the second coat has cured I'll decide if a third is in order. I'm not at all sure when I am going to be able to find a few things to hang on it yet, but hopefully I'll have it done by the weekend. |
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bitogoth's fault
| bitogoth has this cute little wire Hallowe'en tree that I've always quite liked. It only took me just shy of five years to get around to it, but I decided to try my hand at making my own wire tree today. I haven't made anything out of wire for years. What you see here is a work-in-progress. It still needs paint and ornaments. Materials for this cost less than $10 and it was a nicely relaxing way to pass a couple hours. I'll post better pictures once it is finished. |
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