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Catching up

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I'm going to start catching up from the last couple of years.  Probably only a Deviation or two a day.  I have several in the pipeline.
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Kinda back

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I started checking DA twice in the last week.  This is more than I've done in ages.  Perhaps, I will be putting up some of the new stuff from the last two years.  No promises, but hopefully something.  I've learned so much and always churning out projects.  :-)
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Rawr

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Well, we're back from World Steam Expo.  It was an interesting Con. There were a lot of issues, but there were some things they did really well.  If you are into Steampunk bands this is the Con for you.  Although, I am dissapointed at the lack of photos that have surfaced.  Not just ones of us, but in general.  I know for a fact that over the three days we were there we posed for several dozen pictures plus all the candid ones that were snapped.  Of the stuff that has shown up on flickr and the like it just seems to be the same people over and over again. It's not even the people I would expect to see like the bands or the paid talent.   I'm probably just making too much of it.  I did post a new Dev from one I found courtesy of Ravenez.  In retrospect now I am glad we packed a camera--thank you in advance to Diplomatchic for taking shots on Saturday.  Now if Eric would only get around to getting the pictures off his camera... ;-) /rant.
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I've enjoyed doing Steampunk since we really got into it after Teslacon last November.  It's given me an excuse to use my Victorian brain and I've done several builds I've really enjoyed.  I'm not going to lie, being able to turn out a dress in only 20-30 hours has definitely increased the enjoyment level since a faire dress takes me around 100 hours.  

Anyway, I admit it, my Steampunk is in reality pretty straight Victorian (primarily 1885-1888) with period fabrics and with the added use of a few blends and man made fabrics when it gives the right look.  Then the "Steampunk" embellishment of a brooch, watch or something simple at best.  For World Steam Expo in May this is no exception--in fact probably even more so since one of the gowns is entirely made of two suiting wools and right out of a fashion plate.  The other is velvet and taffeta modeled after a ballgown in the Kyoto book (same types of fabrics, similar colors) with a huge trane.  I might submit in-progress shots, but since several of my friends on here are also going to be at WSE, I do sort of want both to be surprises.  If I do my job right, Lady Buckingham will have two sophisticated looking additions to her wardobe.

So, since there is very little (okay, zero) Punk in my Steampunk, what the heck should I call what I do? Maybe I'm showing my age but when I hear "Punk" I think the Sex Pistols and the Clash...and even then they pre-dated me by a couple of years.


The best thing I've come up with yet is SteamGlam, but I know it isn't very good.  

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Unfair

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I learned this morning that Chris Muetz, one of my favorite Bristol photographers, lost his battle with cancer yesterday.  Chris took three of my favorite images I have used in my gallery--including my profile photo.  
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Such a wonderful and artistic eye closed too soon.  Chris, I know I said it before, but thank you.  Your images captured some of my favorite memories--and your eye always made me feel beautiful.  You will be missed dearly by everyone at Bristol.  Rest well.
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