No, not the baby swans; the lovely curved bit out the back of a Victrola-era phonograph's horn. Thusly:


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MY NEW STEAMPUNK CORSETS CAME IN!!1!! :DDDDD

I LOOK LIKE A PIRATE. IT IS AWESOME. I am so TOTALLY wearing this to playgroup tomorrow. XD

Also this because that's what popped into my head as soon as I looked in the mirror ha ha ha.

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This is extraordinarily well done and entertaining. Well done those men (and women)!



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This is not only hilariously accurate and beautifully well-done, it's also ridiculously catchy. Enjoy!

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...This time of Karl.

Had a helluva time persuading him to get into the outfit (he was saying something about not really liking it anymore because it wasn't "real science"), but once I got him into it he really enjoyed it! In fact, here we are, say seven hours later, and he's still in it. XD

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As promised, pics of my Steampunk outfit!! :D

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Hooray!! Not only do I have a new, second battery and a charger for the camera, I even managed to find the adapter to download the pics off the camera! So here, as promised, are pics of my vanbrace (which my brain insists is actually a gauntlet even though it totally isn't, and which my subconscious has recently been referring to as the "backwards- ( Read more... )

I seem to have magical pin-stealing gremlins in my lap.

I just can't account for it otherwise. Here I am, sitting quietly, pinning the lace my friend brought me onto my underskirt, and suddenly it's not just teh odd pin missing, oh no. It's about one of every two or three that I put in.

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Pictures WILL follow, I swear! But it's done! I was gonna whip-stitch the edges with copper wire to finish them off, but I don't think there's really any point as you can't actually really see any edges. I've colouored them, and that seems to be enough, for now ( Read more... )

There! The stitching is done! Hooray!

Now I just need to add the buckles, glue a second layer on to protect me from the effects of my horrible riveting, and wax the lot, and it's done!! :D

Thank the gods.