I’m working on a project at present that involves making a box look as if it was a century old.  I came across this site http://www.xrestore.com/ and his tutorial on aging wood some time ago and was just waiting for the right project to come along.  (I actually ended up buy his book.  Although it [...]

This weekend was filled with great projects.  First, the Greater Cincinnati Calligraphy Guild meeting presentation was on flipping our perceptions of background, foreground, and mid-ground.    Calligrapher Karen McMannon was the presenter.  As always, she did a great job of combining instruction with hands-on activities.
Toward the end of the meeting, Ann Woods showed off copies of [...]

Propnomicon has some intersting thoughts on the process of aging paper.  He notices a more brownish-green tinge when aging with walnut ink and a more yellow tone when aging with tea.
I don’t get the green tinge when dying with my inks –  I switched to making my own ink a couple of years ago and [...]

Just a little teaser for the new project my dad and I are working on (he’s an electronics engineer).  The project contains brass, wood, LEDs, and a touch of Benjamin Franklin.

I saw Coraline this past weekend. It should come as no surprise that I loved it. Driving home from the theater, I pondered over the previews for the CG movies (Ice Age, Monsters vs. Aliens) and how they seemed fun, but elicited little to no excitement from me (I will confess that the [...]

Continuing the late-posting-of-awesome-presents trend, I present these ultra excellent sculpts  Steph created of the Korok from The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker.  That game has everything:  a dragon boat, a great soundtrack, and pirates.   Steph is kind of like that.  She photographs, sculpts, paints,  writes and a million other things. Oh, and she’s a [...]

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 [...]

A while back, a bunch of lucky individuals who blog like the dickens about Neil Gaiman received mysterious boxes filled with all kinds of goodies related to the movie Coraline.
I’m no stranger to the concept of mystery boxes having received and made (and currently making) some of my own. However, I’m in awe of [...]

Every Halloween, my elementary school music teacher would trot out a well-worn record of Saint-Saens Danse Macabre.� She’d explain the story behind the piece and then command the class to close our eyes, and listen.� It was definitely the first piece of classical music I felt I “knew.”� Since then, Halloween never [...]