Finally summer, but ick.

Summer has finally hit Montreal, and the endless facebook complaints make me feel guilty for central a/c and a basement studio. Of course, today is a clay day, so I'm on the top floor, a couple feet from the convection oven, and it's kinda the worst.

I have no right to complain though, i've missed claying so much and it feels great to get back to it. Even if I'm melting.

Is it July already?

Things have been wonderfully quiet lately. More and more custom work coming in, but I'm still finding time to do some of my own favorites. I love the way the lenses add even more anonymity to the pieces. as always, some of these are available in my Etsy shop here.

Spiders!

Babysitting a few hundred tarantulas today, cutie fuzzies.

We'll be at the montreal reptile expo from 9-4pm tomorrow, helping my friend with his booth :)

A small recent collection of masks , Plague Doctor, Cthulhu

So i've been selling well lately which is fantastic, but also bittersweet, I spend so much time on each mask I get kind of attached, and have to fight myself to avoid keeping them...who has the room? So here's a little collection of recent masks, some of my favorites (some are sold, some are on my Etsy

Steampunk....handcuffs?

I prefer, "steampunk inspired" as I hestitate to declare something steampunk because I threw gears on it, but the feel is definitely "inspired* I made my first pair of play cuffs to...well..see if I could? and they sold immediately. Fetish gear was never the direction I wanted to go with my leather work, so I hadn't made another pair until these. and what can i say? I think they're pretty cute. Steampunk bondage photoshoot?

Candy Glass Tutorial ! aka Cheaters lampwork beads

I wrote this one years and years ago, the finished beads really do look like glass! I ONLY use Premo Frost for these techniques, originally known as Premo bleached translucent.

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Snuggled down at home, a bit of the dreaded lurgy. Soup is on, curry is started, time to do a little social media!