A tiny Ferris wheel contraption with four antique brass roller skates instead of seating is enclosed in a glass globe with shimmering liquid, for those who like endlessly “skating the issue,” steampunk-style. It may have wheels, but this curious invention is going nowhere on purpose. Now I know that “skirting the issue” reminds me of … Continue reading
. . . . The funny thing about this snow globe is … I was trying to remake a particular favorite globe. It didn’t seem like such a big request, after all, I’d done it once before. . So here is the globe I MEANT to re-make: … and here is the globe I … Continue reading
It’s not a snow globe, it’s a rain globe. I love the jaunty little step inside this globe, an example of the materials leading me to the design and not the other way around. It started with the desire for a parasol. A real one, Victorian and lacy, which proved difficult to find except for … Continue reading
I don’t know why I feel guilty, but I do: I had never heard of Nikola Tesla until years after I graduated college. How can that be? How does one learn that Ben Franklin invented electricity, Marconi invented the radio, and Thomas Edison invented the electric lightbulb and apparently everything else? Not a word about … Continue reading
Point of View is a one of a kind custom snow globe with a nod to the drawings of M.C. Escher — only it’s in 3-D. While Escher used carefully drawn angles and tricks with perspective to create impossible structures in which people marched endlessly — defying gravity — in a snow globe, I realized … Continue reading
It’s been a crazy May and starting out to be a crazy/fun June. I am starting to see signs that July could be off the charts. Time to take a moment and thank a few folks for recent mentions in columns and blogs, or for otherwise assisting Camryn Forrest Designs in getting the snowglobe artwork out to be … Continue reading
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