Yes, I’m on Twitter. Guaranteed to be 100,000 times more boring than the stuff on my site.

I met Danielle through our mutual obsession with alethiometers.  It has been absolutely amazing to watch this young lady’s talent blossom.  This Christmas she sent me a package full of mysterious artifacts from her travels through space and time.  As a shameless plug, you should definitely check out her Etsy shop (which hopefully will be [...]

Back in July, Lady Disdain nominated Curious Goods for an Arte y Pico award, and through database issues, e-mail issues, and just general issues, I haven’t had a chance to accept.
The rules (as posted by Lady Disdain):

Pick five blogs that you consider deserve the award for their creativity, design, interesting material, and also for contributing [...]

It’s official, and I must share! Two of my pieces will be in George Beahm’s newest book Discovering the Golden Compass: A Guide to Philip Pullman’s Dark Materials. George has written a variety of books that all seem to be about subjects I love! (Pirates, Harry Potter, Chronicles of Narnia . . [...]

The page from the Holy Book of Weapons is now being auctioned on eBay. You can see a larger picture of the page here.

I just completed my first potion bottle label that is not hand-written. I decided to do it in gold foil (just for the heck of it) and I think it turned out quite nicely for a first attempt at bottle labeling.
I debated putting a back label on it — but decided in the end [...]

I can’t believe it didn’t sell, so I’m offering it yet again! As seen here, I’m offering one of my custom-packaged wands for sale on eBay. This time it’s from that loveable goofball Ron. I’m really excited about doing the letter for this one — lots of mispellings and scratched out words [...]

As seen here, I’m offering one of my custom-packaged wands for sale on eBay. This time it’s from that loveable goofball Ron. I’m really excited about doing the letter for this one — lots of mispellings and scratched out words coupled with some “Go Chudley Cannons!” scribblings.
I did receive pictures of the girl [...]

As seen here, I’m offering one of my custom-packaged Harry Potter wands for sale on eBay. I just finished custom packaging Hermione’s wand for a friend, and it turned out wonderfully.
I promise to post pictures of it as soon as the birthday girl receives it. (These days you just can’t be too careful [...]