Current Location: Dad's house, Rio Linda
Well, it's been ages since I've sat down at 9:30 to blog. I know I haven't even been thinking about Steampunk Thing of the Week since at least October, so if I've made Things it's been largely by coincidence. Right now I'm focused on getting things ready for the Sacramento Steampunk Society's Birthday Party on Thursday. I'm also two weeks into my hundred days for Nova Albion and I have finished nothing. I had an excuse that first Sunday because it was my mom's birthday, and of course that was Thanksgiving week so I was spending a lot of time hanging out with family and almost-family Wednesday through Sunday, but if I had really been trying I'm sure I could have completed one or two things while they were here. In fact, I wanted to get Jimmy and Jessica to write some steampunk-related words in Chinese/Japanese on some of my products for me . . . instead I brought out the one thing I'd actually worked on, a pair of clay bracelets (no photo, sorry), and Jessica expressed an interest in playing with clay so we did that the whole time. Or she did. I mostly was feeling to tired to do anything. She had a really good idea that I'll probably use somehow in my jewelry for Nova Albion, which was to do steampunk zodiac animals.
Tomorrow we're having a Maker/Swap meet and a friend of mine who I haven't seen since I think elementary school is coming.
That's all I can think to say right now. On to the next thing!
Showing posts with label inspiration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label inspiration. Show all posts
Saturday, December 4, 2010
Monday, November 15, 2010
Vendication
Current Location: Dad's house, Rio Linda
I just received a response to Saturday's e-mail:
I just received a response to Saturday's e-mail:
Thank you for the photos & the detail! I think in pullet points, so here we go:
YES to:
YES to:
- Goggles: The opera goggles sound good, especially if they're sized smaller like traditional opera glasses - I don't think we have anything like that yet. The other pair of goggles will be OK as well
- JEWELRY: I really like the idea of specifically "Eastern-themed steampunk jewelry" and I like the (brooch? Pin?) of the Asian lady with the gears... very interesting and different! That is really the only jewelry we can add to the vendor room at this point.
- GLOVES: The gloves are OK (not a lot of them) - hand-painted like the socks would be great!
- CLOTHING: I love the socks! The other clothing item that would work are the Chinese dresses you mentioned - again, if you did the hand-painted gears or some such, to steam them up a bit. Breeches might be interesting as well.
- SKETCHES: The accessories you described & sketched all sound great
Sunday, November 14, 2010
Vendition
Current Location: Dad's house, Rio Linda
Now that the Wi-Fi here is again stable, I no longer have any excuses not to blog (not that that was a good one, you understand, given I've been at my mom's house the past two weeks). I expect to be playing catch-up for some time.
Today I woke up around noon, having stayed up far too late watching the first season of Castle plus commentaries. I sent an e-mail describing the kinds of things I am likely to bring to the vendor room at Nova Albion, which took hours. I think I shall reproduce it here. The guidelines, by the way, read "We do seek to create a balance and will need to limit certain items: at present we are no longer able to accept goggles, hats, rayguns or clockwork jewelry and would love to have more exotic and Eastern-inspired wares."
What I actually bring to sell will be dependent on what I manage to make in time for the convention, but here is a list of the kinds of projects I have in mind and you can let me know based on what other vendors are bringing where to concentrate my efforts.
I know you said no hats, but it has been suggested to me that my hats might be sufficiently different that I should mention them anyway. I intend to have no more than three or four hats similar to the one pictured in the first attachment, but in different colors. And I have several other purchased hats (mostly straw ones) lying around waiting to be steampunked in a similar fashion to that one or the one pictured in the second attachment. I also want to make other large Edwardian hats from scratch, such as ones with scalloped brims, and one based on the design of a pith helmet. I have plans for top hats pieced from various fabrics, such as faux leather, corduroy, brocade, and Victorian wallpaper prints, as well as similar tiny top hats (two inches high) as shown in the third attached photo. I would like to make hats of the design shown in the fourth and fifth photos in various sizes and fabrics. I am also interested in making caps with applique and scalloped brims, and steampunk bonnets.
I also have plans for exactly two pairs of goggles, one of which will be "opera goggles" (with a stick instead of a strap). And I have one pair of "Gogglies" already made, which are meant to be pinned or clipped to hats, hair, or wherever, as shown in photos six through eight.
May I assume that "clockwork jewelry" refers to pieces that use entire watch movements as cabochons? Would jewelry such as the set pictured in attachment nine be acceptable? Apart from that, I have purchased several items to serve as focal pieces in Eastern-themed steampunk jewelry (probably mostly necklaces). I will probably have other assorted jewelry, as shown in pictures ten through sixteen.
I should have several pairs of opera-length gloves similar to those in photo seventeen. I also intend to buy some short fingerless gloves and hand-paint them in a manner similar to the sock in photo eighteen. I have some cuffs similar to the one in photo nineteen, which are not really steampunk but may pass for goth, lolita, or rockabilly. I would like to make adjustable hat-bands and arm-garters that would look something like the sketches in the twentieth attachment. I may do spats/gaiters similar to those in photo twenty-one. I can easily make "disguises" as shown in photo twenty-two, although these would be less one-of-a-kind than most of the rest of my items, as they are vacuum-formed on a mold. I may also vacuum-form other items, such as gears and antique keys.
I should have a few lightly-boned corsets. I may also make other garments, although I'm not sure what. Most likely tailcoats and frock coats. Maybe vests in Eastern-looking fabrics. Maybe Chinese dresses embellished with gears and so forth. Possibly shirts or breeches. Possibly bustled overskirts.
Things I forgot to include: belt buckles, picture frames, wigs, parasols, lockets, reticules, purses, jabots, steampunked shoes, leather stuffed animals.
To bed!
Now that the Wi-Fi here is again stable, I no longer have any excuses not to blog (not that that was a good one, you understand, given I've been at my mom's house the past two weeks). I expect to be playing catch-up for some time.
Today I woke up around noon, having stayed up far too late watching the first season of Castle plus commentaries. I sent an e-mail describing the kinds of things I am likely to bring to the vendor room at Nova Albion, which took hours. I think I shall reproduce it here. The guidelines, by the way, read "We do seek to create a balance and will need to limit certain items: at present we are no longer able to accept goggles, hats, rayguns or clockwork jewelry and would love to have more exotic and Eastern-inspired wares."
What I actually bring to sell will be dependent on what I manage to make in time for the convention, but here is a list of the kinds of projects I have in mind and you can let me know based on what other vendors are bringing where to concentrate my efforts.
I know you said no hats, but it has been suggested to me that my hats might be sufficiently different that I should mention them anyway. I intend to have no more than three or four hats similar to the one pictured in the first attachment, but in different colors. And I have several other purchased hats (mostly straw ones) lying around waiting to be steampunked in a similar fashion to that one or the one pictured in the second attachment. I also want to make other large Edwardian hats from scratch, such as ones with scalloped brims, and one based on the design of a pith helmet. I have plans for top hats pieced from various fabrics, such as faux leather, corduroy, brocade, and Victorian wallpaper prints, as well as similar tiny top hats (two inches high) as shown in the third attached photo. I would like to make hats of the design shown in the fourth and fifth photos in various sizes and fabrics. I am also interested in making caps with applique and scalloped brims, and steampunk bonnets.
I also have plans for exactly two pairs of goggles, one of which will be "opera goggles" (with a stick instead of a strap). And I have one pair of "Gogglies" already made, which are meant to be pinned or clipped to hats, hair, or wherever, as shown in photos six through eight.
May I assume that "clockwork jewelry" refers to pieces that use entire watch movements as cabochons? Would jewelry such as the set pictured in attachment nine be acceptable? Apart from that, I have purchased several items to serve as focal pieces in Eastern-themed steampunk jewelry (probably mostly necklaces). I will probably have other assorted jewelry, as shown in pictures ten through sixteen.
I should have several pairs of opera-length gloves similar to those in photo seventeen. I also intend to buy some short fingerless gloves and hand-paint them in a manner similar to the sock in photo eighteen. I have some cuffs similar to the one in photo nineteen, which are not really steampunk but may pass for goth, lolita, or rockabilly. I would like to make adjustable hat-bands and arm-garters that would look something like the sketches in the twentieth attachment. I may do spats/gaiters similar to those in photo twenty-one. I can easily make "disguises" as shown in photo twenty-two, although these would be less one-of-a-kind than most of the rest of my items, as they are vacuum-formed on a mold. I may also vacuum-form other items, such as gears and antique keys.
I should have a few lightly-boned corsets. I may also make other garments, although I'm not sure what. Most likely tailcoats and frock coats. Maybe vests in Eastern-looking fabrics. Maybe Chinese dresses embellished with gears and so forth. Possibly shirts or breeches. Possibly bustled overskirts.
Things I forgot to include: belt buckles, picture frames, wigs, parasols, lockets, reticules, purses, jabots, steampunked shoes, leather stuffed animals.
To bed!
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Stuff I Tried On in Virginia City
Did I get the capitalization right?
Current Location: Dad's house, Rio Linda
Me trying clothes on in the bathroom.
Train Day
Current Location: Dad's house, Rio Linda
Got back from the Sacramento Steampunk Society/ Great Basin Costume Society's Steam Train Expedition at 9:20 - just in time to blog! Only I uploaded my photos instead. Then I went to see if anyone else had posted photos yet and ended up looking at ALL the photos on the Great Basin Costume Society and Bay Area Steampunk Association's facebooks. Oh well. The trip was great fun, even if I did get completely dried out and end up with a minor sinus headache exacerbated by the huge bun full of bobby pins atop my head and the fact that I ran out of energy long before it was time to eat. We saw a bit of parade, a few camels as promised, quite a bit of camel merchandise which is probably not usually so prominently displayed, and some people dressed as cowboys and ladies that weren't with us. The photos of the steampunks with the locomotive behind us blowing steam promise to be spectacular and I can't wait to see them. My hat wouldn't sit at the angle I wanted and I fretted some about that and my hair's misplaced volume (I wanted more at the sides and front, less in the bun, but that would have been too complicated to do in the truck with no mirror). I was also disappointed that my outfit had almost none of the Edwardian flavor I originally intended, but looking at the pictures it actually worked quite well anyway. I was inexplicably fascinated by the bandoliers (belts?) on display in the firemen's museum, which combined with a comment from the GBCS members about someone who had entered their costume contest with a bucket similar to the ones there inspired me to think it could be fun to do a steampunk fire fighter costume.
Got back from the Sacramento Steampunk Society/ Great Basin Costume Society's Steam Train Expedition at 9:20 - just in time to blog! Only I uploaded my photos instead. Then I went to see if anyone else had posted photos yet and ended up looking at ALL the photos on the Great Basin Costume Society and Bay Area Steampunk Association's facebooks. Oh well. The trip was great fun, even if I did get completely dried out and end up with a minor sinus headache exacerbated by the huge bun full of bobby pins atop my head and the fact that I ran out of energy long before it was time to eat. We saw a bit of parade, a few camels as promised, quite a bit of camel merchandise which is probably not usually so prominently displayed, and some people dressed as cowboys and ladies that weren't with us. The photos of the steampunks with the locomotive behind us blowing steam promise to be spectacular and I can't wait to see them. My hat wouldn't sit at the angle I wanted and I fretted some about that and my hair's misplaced volume (I wanted more at the sides and front, less in the bun, but that would have been too complicated to do in the truck with no mirror). I was also disappointed that my outfit had almost none of the Edwardian flavor I originally intended, but looking at the pictures it actually worked quite well anyway. I was inexplicably fascinated by the bandoliers (belts?) on display in the firemen's museum, which combined with a comment from the GBCS members about someone who had entered their costume contest with a bucket similar to the ones there inspired me to think it could be fun to do a steampunk fire fighter costume.
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