That sound you heard?  It was me, screaming with joy over my new Spy Fly.  Through some eBay mojo and the identification skills of a friend (who needs to finish a questionairre — nudge, nudge) I happened to pick up one of the static or test Spy Flys from the Golden Compass film.  I had [...]

Continuing my game of catch-up, I’m finally getting around to processing photos of the wonderful gifts sent to me by fellow artisan Danielle. Danielle hand-crafted an assortment of artifacts from Lyra’s world. Presented as if collected by a traveling scholar, there are plant samples, a witch’s arrow plucked from a tree after a [...]

I saw the Golden Compass on Friday, and regardless of how I felt about the rest of the movie (I loved it), even if it was utter tripe, the polar bear fight in the middle would have redeemed the whole thing.In fact, I’ve come to the conclusion that almost every movie could be improved by [...]

Today the postman brought me the most wonderful thing. A print of the inside back cover of Discovering the Golden Compass: A Guide to Philip Pullman’s Dark Materials. Want to see what the cover looks like? Click here. George and Tim are quite simply the best, and this unsolicited present just [...]

Edit:Â The Chocolatl PDF is now up on the Chocolatl page.Â
Well, actually, it’s BEEN out since late August, but I’m only now catching up enough to post about it. Two of my pieces are in George Beahm’s book Discovering the Golden Compass: A Guide to Philip Pullman’s Dark Materials. (The photos [...]

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 . . [...]

Too bad the name Callum looks like Gollum.

The full Flash movie after the jump.

Well, it’s finally done. My first Alethiometer pocket watch. While the prototype was nice, the final one has much cleaner cuts, I enlarged the symbols a bit, and I made a lovely little presentation box. I updated the page with photos of the box and the final watch. I’m really enjoying playing with [...]

I’ve got a bit pocket watch crazy these past couple of weeks. First I made my Mad-eye Moody pocket watch, and then I was contact by Danielle who asked me if I’d ever thought of doing an alethiometer pocket watch. I thought, “why not!” I had a heck of a time trimming the [...]

Wow. Just wow. Toys for the new Golden Compass movie are going to be released by Corgi. Could that mean the Master Replicas will be doing prop replicas as well?
Gosh, I hope so. I’m still not that enamored of the movie Alethiometer’s symbols (I don’t think they should be in color). I’ll [...]