For some messages, simple is best.

A glass heart with an iridescent sheen catches the light, bound with brass and touched with a gold wire coil, antique bronze metal gear and a tiny hanging copper spring.  When shaken, the heart bobs slightly on tightly coiled steel and is washed with a touch of reflective metallic dust, glittering and winking rainbows as the dust darts and dances in the liquid interior, and falls gently to the base.

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For some people, this is enough: “Always.”

One-of-a-kind Steampunk Snow Globe, May 2012. All  designs and photographs are Copyright (c) CamrynForrest Designs, Denver, Colorado.

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