Step one, make a tiny hat, then add tinier goggles. Step Two, float a headless goggled hat, a bowler to be specific, in the lazy liquid of a snow globe. Step Three, shake the globe. When shaken, fill the liquid with swirling dark mystery, and a gaggle of tiny gear-shaped metallic bits, and one — … Continue reading
When you are standing in the record-breaking heat of summer, looking for a spot of shade at an arts festival, but finding mostly asphalt and sunshine, remind yourself … Winter … Is Coming. Handmade snow globe with icy frost microdust “snow” on a shimmery silver tree. Engraved metal plate. Photographs and designs are copyright (c) … Continue reading
Oh, the irony! When your feels are so true and deep, and yet so murky and muddled. When certainty and doubt dance together. When your highs are sparkly iridescence and your lows … your lows are both sweet and dark, swirling the abyss, the edge of madness, the whisper of bliss. But what do we … Continue reading
Who was it who said with such certainty “steampunk and snow globes do not go together?” Well, I beg to differ. To see the rest of the excellent photo essay by Danielle Lirette of Westword newspaper, click this link to see more wonderful Steampunk attire. Here’s a close up of the globe. Westword photo is … Continue reading
My mind is a messy tangle of tangents, reaching out every which way. You’ve heard someone say they enter a room and can’t remember what they wanted? That happens in my thoughts: I reach in for one process and come out with an invention, or a pun, or a memory that shakes my core. What? … Continue reading
For many people, the next road trip is only an excuse to secure another snow globe for the ever-expanding collection. Prompted by the fascinating request to “Go to hell, and bring me back a snow globe,” we did just that. A snow globe holding a hand, holding a snow globe which is holding a hand. … Continue reading
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