This has been a super crazy week! As everyone on the planet has to know by now, Cdale was hit by a freak-inland hurricane last Friday that totally destroyed half of the town. David and I were spared any damage to our house…but our neighbors were totally not as lucky (see 2 images below). We ended up going 5 days without power, and we still haven’t gotten our Internet back (which is why I am blogging from the SIU student center basement right now.) This whole event has really put us behind on workshoppe production, so now David and I are trying to get as much stuff as possible done before the OMGcon.
Since the power has come back on, I have been sewing like crazy. I managed to do some jewelry stuff in the dark, too. David has been working really hard on a satchel he is designing, and I’ve even got some pics of what Kit has made. Productivity is fun!
The top bag shown here features an embroidered zeppelin that I managed to do during the power-outage.
I really like these! When you take apart a lot of watches (like we do) there are so many tiny parts that seem like they just wouldn’t be “pretty” enough for jewelry….but I think they look super cool in these tiny glass vials! I have strung a couple of these on leather necklaces and have already named them “Industrial Eyecandy”…cause stuff like this is just fun to look at.
This is my first attempt at a steampunky necklace. It features a salvaged optical lens, a salvaged watch crystal (used as casing for watch part) and a cool watch face turned charm. The chain is also recycled…it’s from a broken bracelet. The only “new” things on this piece are the two charms.
Kit has about 6 of these leather neck pouches made up…and they are pretty cool. He has come up with some cool ways of latching them shut. They are too small to put anything substantial in…so they are more for looks.
