Happy Birthday Mr Tesla!

Today is Mr Tesla's 153rd birthday! And also one year since I commemorated his birth with the Tesla Topper, still one of my favourite creations. This year I decided to make a nice little freebie to match the Topper which I know so many of my group members purchased. And so here we have ... the 'I <3 Tesla' brooch!

More info on Tesla at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla

Curious cogroaches!

The onset of warmer weather in New Babbage saw the broom cupboard here at Atelier somewhat plagued with beetles earlier this week. On capturing a few specimens I noticed, that like so many things in our fair city, that they are indeed clockwork insects! I have thus named them 'cogroaches'.

They are quite the most curious yet beautiful creatures, with delicate, papery wing cases and glowing eyes. Not being one to let such a discovery go to waste, I have utilised them to adorn a charming spring straw bonnet, which can be found for purchase at the store, along with some sweet little cogroach brooches.

I find insecty jewellery such a joy, don't you?! And the bonnet is just the sort of hat that one might wish to wear to church, providing you can convince the vicar that cogroaches are not wood burrowing and will not eat the pews.

A Christmas Trinket

As an aside to a particularly fiddly build that has been bugging me for some time, tonight I put together this sweet little frosty snowflake cog stick-pin. A trio of tiny bronze snowflakes revolve under a frosted glass dome and an iridescent pearl glimmers gently at the other end. And then, cause I simply couldn't leave it at that, I made a little ebony box for it to live in, lined with my favourite faded damask wallpaper.

trin⋅ket

–noun

1. A small ornament, piece of jewelry, etc., usually of little value. 2. A trivial thing; a trifle.