This Saturday the boys and I headed down to Paducah Ky (home of OMGcon) and did a little antique shopping. Of course…we were not looking for actual…you know…antiques. We were checking out stores for old hardware/broken thingy-ma-bobs to use in our creations. We made out like bandits! Well…not real bandits…because we actually paid for things. But we bought a lot of cool stuff. The three of us went in on buying several skeleton keys, and David and Kit loaded up on radio tubes. Our biggest score (in my opinion) was three working pocket watches! Most of the stores were selling watches for between $80 and $100…but we scored these for $10, $11, and $12! The $11 one is mine..and it keeps the worst time…well…I should say that it doesn’t keep time…but I don’t care! I ticks and makes me feel super Victorian!
I picked up some nice lock faces and we were all happy at the end of the day with our loot. We struck out at craft stores on some jewelry finding items…but we will find everything we need eventually. We have so many projects running in the workshoppe that I can’t really document them all. Kit is making small leather neck pouches, David is still working on his chess set and some leather wrist bands, and I have been knitting some wristbands and sewing some more bags. We have also been putting together necklaces.
Today I finished a steampunky pocketbook I had been thinking about. It turned out nicer than I thought it would…and that’s always nice. I plan on making a few more with different fabric combinations and more elaborate inner pockets. On bottom are some pics of a steampunky pencil case that I finish a couple of weeks ago but never photographed.
