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).