I'd gotten this image from the photo salon at SteamCon:



They offered a choice of color or sepia tone, but didn't have the capability of showing you what the image would look like in sepia. I opted for the color version and decided I'd play with it myself later.

( Here's what I did )

But that wasn't what I really wanted. I wanted what looked like an old daguerrotype. Luckily I have a friend with mad Photoshop skills. I forwarded her the image, and this is what she came up with:

( Read more... )

She's got examples of the kinds of work she can do posted to her journal here.

Hello all fine steampunkers of the world wide web,

hope everyone is doing wonderfully well

So my first Boston Convention is coming up, and it just so happens to be a sci-fi / anime con, with some steampunk panels, and what a better reason then to dress up all nice and steamy!?

so i have been mentally designing an outfit for it, thats my design process xD in my head, to paper, to REALITY :0

xD so here is one of my sketchs,

( Pics! :3 )

• 20:05 @NataniaBarron Re: your sister: That's wonderful! I'm so happy to hear that! #
• 20:06 When the first thing I hear in the morning is a gangsta rap song that samples the "Numa Numa" song, something is wrong. #
• 20:06 ("Maiya-hee! Maiya-hoo! Maiya-hee! Maiya-ha-ha!") #
• 20:07 Oh, and: I'm back, baby! #
• 20:09 @lalathemonk Alo! Salut! Sunt eu, un haiduc. #
• 20:11 I found out that my computer tech teacher apparently ran a failed mayoral campaign... #
• 20:11 ...and blamed his loss on "ultra-liberal" "character assassination" and the fact that his opponent was Asian. Real classy. #
• 20:12 I have to say, he's very good at his current job, but I wouldn't vote him into public office if my life depended on it. #
• 20:13 Speaking of, there is a disgusting amount of gay-bashing in my classroom, and the teacher contributes to it. It makes me very angry. #
• 20:14 It's just so hard to speak up when everyone else is against you. But I can only take it for so long. #
• 20:14 I guess it shows how sheltered I am that I'm so unused to naked homophobia. :/ #

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This Halloween, I managed to wrangle a few others into dressing ( a little more steamy )

We need more steampunk aficionados in NOLA. If you're here, speak up!

(x-posted to steampunk_plus)

After a long, long stuggle, my CC High Tea Blouse arrived! (Not living in America but ordering from there comes with a lot of hassle.)
Thus I present you my long-awaited Steampunk Daily Basis Outfit!
( Click for pics! )

So, it's a little later in era than steampunk and closer to diesel punk, but...
Cirque Mechanics is coming to Northern New England!
Capital Center for the Performing Arts, Concord, NH

Think circus acrobatics set into a mechanical factory. Era for costumes is "1940s", but much of the factory worker outfits are time-neutral!
Thursday, Nov 12 @ 7:30.
Tickets start at $12.50 and go up to $75.00 each.
http://ccanh.com/ShowDetails/31/426

It's time to clear out some inventory to make way for new goodies...my creative mood is back!

The Julian - Midsize Tophat With Working Clock



( Other Items On Sale )

So many more items on sale in our Etsy Shop!
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The amazing milliner Kim of TOPSY TURVY DESIGN just released images of a new hat she designed for the Dances of Vice Festival silent auction, and it's just so sublime I wanted to share this incredible piece with you! It is Topsy Turvy Design's Leather Seafaring Tricorn with Steampunk Details. The festival silent auction also features a number of other steampunk pieces from our sponsors ARANWEN'S JEWELRY, ELECTRA DESIGNS, HEY SAILOR! HATS and many more.

The third annual Dances of Vice Festival is coming up in just two weeks in New York City! This year the festival is being held in a nautical seafaring theme, featuring all manner of chimerical amusements, from a luxury cruise to historical fencing demonstrations, Baroque opera and ballroom dancing. The theme is perfect for the adventurous steampunk, and I hope some of you will be able to join us! This year's headlining band is The Hellblinki Sextet, performing with Ragwater Revue (featuring guest musicians Brian Viglione and Ben Ickies).



For more info about the festival, visit www.dancesofvice.com.

( DOVF III Flyer )

In my last offering here it was mentioned that i should have cogs and gears on my iPhone wallets.




So here they are, 3 different iPhone Wallets






thanks for looking!
S23

I am just posting a quickie today to boost a couple of signals (because signal boosting is fun and ought to be done more often):


1. ICFA Scholarship for PoC (link found via the awesome shweta_narayan ) -- The theme of this year's International Conference on the Fantastic in Arts is "Race and the Fantastic", and the wonderful guest of honor are Nalo Hopkinson, Laurence Yep, and Takayuki Tatsumi. Click on the link for the scholarship details (this scholarship is pretty inclusive of all convention expenses, including airfare)(is that not just awesomeness?).


2. Clarkesworld Citizenship Drive -- For a small donation, you can become a Clarkesworld citizen! Okay, I have personally been a bit awful about keeping up with short story reading lately, but Clarkesworld still remains one of my favorite short story locations. Go check it out!


Alright, I'm going to go wrap a cat around my head and see if that helps my headache (because there's nothing better for a headache than a clawed furball of doom).

I'll be vending this event. Additionally, the model (Glam Amour) will be wearing a couple items of my making and one of the performers (Zamra) will be wearing an entire outfit designed by myself and my wonderful partner Luscious Eve.

I discovered Steampunk fairly recently, but it feels like something I've been looking for for a long time. I just wanted to post my Halloween pics (since that's is one of my favorite parts of this blog; all the pictures of peoples outfits). There are just two, and I blocked my face ONLY because I am not photogenic, and they were just...bad.

( Pics )

Here's my album from All Hallow's Eve at TRF.  It's punk'centric w/a few miscellaneous shots of friends, Alices & the garden - but as usual, none of me *pout*:

http://s190.photobucket.com/albums/z290/wattsupdoc/Steampunk%2010%2031%2009/

http://www.lavoltapress.com

The Lady's Stratagem: A Repository of 1820s Directions for the Toilet, Mantua-Making, Stay-Making, Millinery & Etiquette
* Rare, newly translated instructions for making: 13 kinds of stays; most women's garments, trimmings, and accessories; and millinery, including 52 trimmings
* Some of the earliest knitting instructions published, for women's and men's garments
* Detailed directions for choosing clothing, caring for it, and getting dressed
* Extensive information on beauty and hygiene, including 116 recipes for cosmetics and instructions for 8 hairstyles
* A 138-page etiquette manual for women and men
* 755 pages, 25 embroidery patterns, 98 line illustrations, and 36 halftones

Reconstruction Era Fashions: 350 Sewing, Needlework, and Millinery Patterns
* Patterns for 350 women's garments, accessories, and trimmings from 1867 through 1868
* Techniques include sewing, embroidery, crochet, knitting, tatting, and netting
* 529 pages; 609 fashion plates and other line illustrations
* Extensive quotes from period sources, on colors, fabrics, trimmings, and accessories

Fashions of the Gilded Age, Volume 1: Undergarments, Bodices, Skirts, Overskirts, Polonaises, and Day Dresses
* Patterns for 160 women's garments from 1877 through 1882
* 469 pages; 200 fashion plates and other line illustrations
* Special drafting rulers that enable you to enlarge certain patterns to your own measurements
* Extensive quotes from period sources, on materials, colors, trimmings, and construction
* Translations from rare German source

Fashions of the Gilded Age, Volume 2: Evening, Bridal, Sports, Outerwear, Accessories, and Dressmaking
* Patterns for 184 women's garments, accessories, and trimmings from 1877 through 1882
* 541 pages; 598 fashion plates and other line illustrations
* Special drafting rulers that enable you to enlarge certain patterns to your own measurements
* Extensive quotes from period sources, on materials, colors, trimmings, and construction
* An 87-page manual of techniques for 1870s and 1880s dressmaking and millinery
* Translations from rare German source

The Voice of Fashion: 79 Turn-of-the-Century Patterns with Instructions and Fashion Plates
* Patterns for 79 women's garments from 1900 through 1906
* 463 pages, 85 fashion plates, 8 other illustrations
* Special drafting rulers that enable you to enlarge the patterns to your own measurements
* Fashion columns describing styles, fabrics, trimmings, colors, and construction

The Edwardian Modiste: 85 Authentic Patterns with Instructions, Fashion Plates, and Period Sewing Techniques
* Patterns for 85 women's garments from 1905 through 1909
* 430 pages, 91 fashion plates, 21 other illustrations
* Special drafting rulers that enable you to enlarge the patterns to your own measurements
* Fashion columns describing styles, fabrics, trimmings, colors, and construction
* Substantial illustrated sections from a 1907 manual on dressmaking and millinery

After a Fashion: How to Reproduce, Restore, and Wear Vintage Styles
* Style and construction information on men's and women's clothing from the Middle Ages to Art Deco
* Detailed information on using period patterns, including enlarging scaled patterns, altering style and fit, and developing sewing instructions
* Detailed instructions for restoring vintage clothes
* Step-by-step techniques for altering vintage clothes
* 376 pages, 147 illustrations

My best friend, singswithtrees ,and I live in Portland Oregon... but for reasons too numerous (and FAR too involved) to mention, we decided we shouldspend more money than we actually have and got to Boston and Salem Massachusetts for a week! 
We dressed up in Victorian clothes (mostly 1890's) the entire time (except a day and a half to rest)
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So I have just a few pics to show off here... the fruits of my labor as it were... I am planning to do an official photo shoot in the near future to showcase the finer elements of my outfit... until then here is how my Halloween went...


This is me with my friend woodssteam AKA Bill The Butcher and the hat I made for him... My entire outfit is my own.



Goggles... who knows WHY we need 'em... we all KNOW they just make us look good...



As an on-the-run-time-traveller I am finally caught-up-with the great Sherlock Holmes...

Thats the feed, there it is... Professional photo shoot to come...

So, every year, my school throws a Masquerade Ball, and I had a new dress from Clockwork Couture burning a hole in my closet. Not a particularly Steampunk outing, but I do love the crossover appeal of the dress. Pics after the cut, mask from the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.



( More pics after cut! )

(Next post will be of Steampunk Icarus costume, I promise!)

I have made some new steamy clothes:

( other pictures under the cut )
I'm selling these in >my etsy shop.