Last year I purchased a Rosback perforator from eBay.  In simplest terms, a perforator is just a row of pins that can be pushed down as a single unit into a piece of paper.   Of course, there’s much more to this machine than that.  Weighing over 300 pounds, it took three people to unload [...]

It is at last complete!  The sixth black vial from Dragon Age: Origins is complete.  I hope you enjoyed all the teases, now you can learn more about the finished piece.  (Be sure to scroll to the end to see a video of the revenant in action.  As the barista at Starbucks said, “Freaky!”

Those who follow me on Twitter have seen the in-progress shots of this.  I really need to tie all my social media together, but that’s soooo boring.

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I’m preparing to leave for Chicago tomorrow morning (yay for another visit to the Potter exhibit), staring down a monster load of laundry, and nursing a bit of a cold.  Yet I couldn’t let the day end without making SOMETHING.  These little bags are for a project I’ll post about on Wednesday.  I made them [...]

My friend HogwartsPaladin noticed that my potions label is being used on an exploding frog soap sold by HowardsHome.   I’m proud to have my potions label adorn Howard’s frog boxes.  The exploding frogs (they don’t quite explode — more like ooze) are exactly the kind of thing I’d expect to see in a [...]

I finally bit the bullet. I created an Etsy store. There isn’t much in it right now, but what IS in it will be getting full write-ups in the next couple of days. These all came about due to a package I wanted to create for my friend Alex. Of course the package needed a [...]

I was cleaning out my e-mails and had almost forgotten about this piece. As a housewarming / late wedding / general life present to my goodest friends Dina and Erik I rendered their house Carson Ellis-style.
Completely ripped off her cover to Trenton Lee Stewart’s The Mysterious Benedict Society. I had missed Stewart’s discussion [...]

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Every day I drive past the Carroll Chimes Bell Tower.  (I didn’t know that was its name until a few minutes ago when I looked it up.)  I’d noticed the doors and balcony on the front of it and asked my co-workers if they opened.  I was answered with a resounding, “No, they’re painted on.”  [...]

If you’re looking for some great inspiration as to why you need to pick up a block of clay RIGHT NOW, you absolutely have to check out this video by Chuck Ferrell of Skull13 Studio. Chuck’s work really focuses on the horror genre, and he’s was at this year’s Horrorhound show. A lot of [...]