Steampunk! (Unfinished)

I am trying to put together some pins for a swap. I was thinking when you go steam punk it tends to get larger, and with the "bulk" it would be a good idea to put the pin on a ribbon or chain of some sort... who wears pins anyway? So, that was my excuse for going bigger. These are all under 2 inches though, but they look huge in this picture.  I used covers from remote starters I picked up at the materials warehouse for a song awhile back. (They would take anything to get me to stop singing and leave the store)  I painted them silver, and I am glad to finnally use some of them!

                                                (LOL those are my feet  on the floor below!)

The other parts are charms, washers and chain from the hardware store, found objects, old jewelery, couple of clock faces I glued on using glossy accents. I don't think a single piece is finished yet, everyone of them could use a sprocket and a nice backing.... still just playing around.

a puzzle piece.. yes a puzzle piece.

I did this one on a Holtz fragment. It has a paper back (so far). I like it cause its shines and it looks better than in this picture. The little gold things are some wire I twirled

This is the back side of one.. I put some tiger print fur (I have tons left over from covering my ottoman) on the back of some, love how it looks cat like from the back!

Ok.. this is one of those pictures that you can't upright no matter how hard you try, tilt your head to the left, the top is on the left side, I used twigs from my yard wrapped with wire, washers, chain and sea beads, so its a sea-steampunk. I can see here the chain is off its mark, perhaps when I fix it I can re-photo it and it will be in the right direction.

I hate buying sprocets or any other thing I should be able to find for free. Perhaps I should have married a watch maker. Donations happily accepted anyway :) I tried making my own sprockets using shrinky dink and Holtz gear molds, did not attach any yet. The tiny sprocket is the right size but it looks a bit plastic. (Of course that is largely due to my shrinking it in hot Utee).

Botanical Matchbox swap

I have been working on a few little art projects while I am recovering from an injury. This one is for an upcoming swap over on Millande. It is a botanical matchbox .. I made a little tag book to go inside from brown kraft paper with a tag punch.
On each page is one word which in total says "take time to smell the flowers." I made one for myself (as I have learned to do). Sometimes people don't follow up with their end of the swap, like the last one I did.   So here is mine..

I made the little butterflies using a picture off google images and covered it with glossby acccents, when dry I pinched it a bit so it had some body. The lovely green paper was from a matchbox swap I just got from Australia... if I can find a picture of that one I will post.. it was very inspiring.

If you can't tell the flower in the box is supposed to be sprouting from the ground.. hence the beads (seeds) and root (hemp cord) below it.

OK.. I am back to edit. I changed the insides,made the flower prettier (they are yellow and pink now with a spangle) and changed the tail to curly wire with a spangle and one bead...of course this is like the 4th time I have changed the tail. . I like it better, take a look.