Glass etching & Hats!

Technically, I've got several more hats and some other etched glass projects done, but I don't have photo evidence for those yet. I do have photo evidence for the latest completed item, something I pretty much had no hand in making: (read: Trillian did all the work)

Corsair Cola mug! (& A closer, clearer shot of the lettering)

Actually, you can have some hat pictures too:

Lobster!

Mouse/Yuki & Cow/Not-actually-Hatsuharu

Lion!

(I discuss how I made these on Instructables)

Guess what I've been working on? Hint: Begins with "H" ends with "@"

(I discuss how I made these on Instructables)
At first there was PenguinHat v.1, then PenguinHat v.2 was commissioned. Then there was CthulhuHat, the CenturionHelmetHat. Then I made a DragonHat (picture pending, still), a Chibi-AlphoseHat (from Full Metal Alchemist), RaccoonHat, and a PandaHat.

And so, HATS!

Dan posing with Cthulhu eating his head.

G!Sam posing with Chibi-Al

RaccoonHat Frontish

RaccoonHat Backish

PandaHat

Silly hats & more!

It started out with a BSed-at-3am-in-the-dark prototype penguin cap.
Then I made a second, better penguin hat.
Then I realized that the hat base could be ... well, used as a hat base for stuff.
So I raided a fabric store for fleece and several hours later, I had hats.


We have, going clockwise: a penguin with flipper-earflaps, Roman Legionnaire helm with cheekplates that work as ear flaps, and Cthulhu-hat, complete with squiggly face and wings. (I haven't quite finished him, actually. A few hand sewing bits haven't happened yet. Also the eyes...)

Fun fact: it's my Nietzsche plushie doll that's wearing the penguin hat. You can see a little bit of his grey trousers under the left wing of Cthulhu.

(I discuss how I made these on Instructables)

I had a few caffeinated drinks and now I'm running a dozen projects, most of them silly hats, but a few non-hat ones. Like the glass vase I etched. The thing is a single flower (or so) rose-plum tinted vase with (suprise!) a rose etched on it.

Sorry, the glare off the glass renders the design hard to see. But it seemed lonely and I didn't have any random flowers to put in the vase. But I did have alot of wire around. A few minutes with pliers and voila-- wire rose. It's really 3-D, so the photo just makes it look like a skeletal crumpled up tinfoil ball. Bah.

On the left is a close up of the flower portion of the etch. It's definitely a stylized image. I found a nice design that's meant to be a tattoo, stretched it, tweaked it and then etched it. I think I like it.

Retroactivity! WTFBuckle!

WTF is it?

It's a WTFBuckle!

Actually, it's a spoon + some wire acting as a buckle. I'll have to find some photos of it in action...

I don't only work in sculpey, y'know...

Meet Mr.Called-Referendum-Until-We-Come-Up-With-Another-Name,

Mascot of DemonWares Inc.

I swear it's not supposed to be that pixel-y, but Blogger ate the image quality or something...

I lied. Earrings > Sleep

Now I am going to sleep. After having made these:

Christmas Tree earrings!
Sterling (Argentium!) wire, anodized aluminum bells. (They most definitely jingle.)
Penny on card for scale. The trees area about 1.5".

Holiday Cheer~

Maybe I should make some wire turkey earrings before Thanksgiving...

And one more sculpey egg for the road

Will be starting back on my academic marathon week of hell after a short respite. The crowning achievement of the evening? Well, doing some fancy computer-y magic, and:

Catwoman. Egg. (Sitting on a penny.) With whip.

Thank you, and good night.

Sculpey > Hegelian Aesthetics on Greek Tragedy

Celebratory sculpey squishing:

From left back row: BigBunny, Balthazar
Front row little 'uns: MiniTotoro, SlugBunny, LittleBunny.
(Oddly enough, the only ones I made in this batch were the pink ones: BigBunny & LittleBunny. The rest are Trillian's.)

Mr.BigBunny is sitting on a penny, if you needed scale.

Cruxshadows + Sculpey == Awesome

We watched Shadowbox, CXS DVD. I couldn't really watch the screen continually 'cause the flashing lights were making my head hurt, so I played with sculpey. (See the EggSong link if you have no clue about the profusion of strange looking eggs here.)

Rogue. With purple-based, spikey hair. And a microphone. And black eyeshadow.

Need I say more?

Studying for Classics 101: an exercise in sculpey

I have several papers and a midterm.
I also have a Ra's al Ghul egg:



And here's Ra's and Robin facing off, if you want to extrapolate the scale: