Pondering Steampunk

[kerravonsen]

Last Worldcon I went to, I saw a number of people wearing lovely steampunk costumes. Every now and then I contemplate putting together a steampunk costume of my own. Probably not as Period or conformist as most - I can't really see myself making a Victorian Ladies' walking dress, though I could probably rustle up a skirt, blouse and vest of some

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[kitkat71483]

Also, you could take some old broken cell phone and mod it up. Cover it with metallic paint except for the glass face. Take out the plastic buttons and make metal ingots in their place. Run wire filligree around the edge.

You could also take an old book, mod it with metal and a lock, put a chain on it, and attach it to your belt.
You can make an old book into a memory book. I love these and am trying to work on one. Its where you take an old book, and an exacto knife, and you can take out some pages while modifying others, painting over pages that you wish to write on, adding pictures to it, flowers, letters or notes others have written you, making the book into an album of memories, lace and special to you. You may even choose to leave some pages as they are in it. And then, locking it shut, and letting it hang from your belt. Leave some pages blank, there's always someone that has a good drawing hand that you might be able to ask to add a page too. Friends you could ask to write a special moment from the event in it. It becomes special to you and special to the event.

Actually, the book is my favorite personal to me idea. I love reading.

A friend of mine took one of those old cheap child globes of the earth that are about 5 inches across and neatly added thin wire filligree around each of the continents, some metal pieces on the globe where she lived and where her family lived in other areas, added a hook to the top and attached it to her belt.

One guy I know had the cheapest accessory I ever saw. I loved it. Well, he actually had two. One was a crown royal bag of trinkets, jacks, rings, odd unique marbles, and other odd ball things up to 10 items in the bag that he called his scrying stones.
The other was a deck of cards that he took the jack, queen, king and aces from and modded them with metal paints over the images and added jewels to them to tell people's fortunes. There were totally unique as I haven't seen others even like them.

[kerravonsen]

There's a lot of cool ideas there!