hey!

Name:Gini
Home :Philly
Why do you like Steampunk? It's fascinating, and Gorgeous.
Favorite bit of clothing: pants.
Favorite accessory: hairpins.
Cake or Pie?: Cake! Cake!
Best music in the world is?: The Beatles, you know it.

Do you have a Persona?: not really. I'm still looking.
if so who are they and whats there story:


Now post photos so we know what you look like and can hug you when we see you on the street




I am not that ugly. really.



Are you a good egg?: yah :D

I got interested in Steampunk by reading an article, and I told my sister about it.. and she told me about this community... I don't know this was posted or not. but if is, please delete.. click here, talks about Steam Punk!"

My better half brought home a promo travel mug that was clear amber and it just screamed "steampunk' so I tricked it out..steampunk inspired.



( That inspired me to make some coffe cup sleeves. )

Hello all! I've been lurking this community for sometime now, and I thought I'd finally post to ask if anyone here is planning to go to AX. If so, is there any interest in a arranging a steampunk gathering?

I'm planning a steampunk group with some friends and wanted to see if anyone else wanted to join us for a steampunk gathering ^^

x-posted to cosplay.com AX subforum and steampunklolita

Today's tweets are ( behind the cut )

This is what I've been posting today on Twitter:

• 10:59 Sat out in the garden again. The weather's too good not to. #

Greetings! I have only recently discovered this comm, and there's no better way to say Hello than to share a really good find, n'est-ce pas?



This ray gun and others in the same genre are made of Raku, a centuries-old Japanese ceramics technique.

Find more here: http://www.muddymountainpottery.com/raku-ray-guns.html

Me: was into retro-future before I knew the term "steampunk". Very keen on GIRL GENIUS online comics, Second Life computer environment, and the virtual community that combines the two, based in Caledon and Steelhead regions of SL.

Forward Momentum!

Great weekend chez gmul.

Saturday morning we went to Borough Market. I had never been there before, which is a dreadful state of affairs because it is fabulous. Rather like going to the Good Food Exhibition but without the extortionate entrance fee. I had some wonderful pan-fried scallops, diver-caught off my homeland of the Jurassic Coast in Dorset, a slice of very filling Spanish omelette, a tingling beetroot, apple, carrot and ginger smoothie and some fresh apple and raspberry juice. Not all at the same time! We also spotted the stall from the Artisan du Chocolat and purchased some very cheap and very yummy misfits.

There wasn't any particular plan after that so we wandered across London Bridge where we spotted a convoy of open-topped tourist buses. I want to go on one of those! I declared. Eventually we tracked down a stop on the Embankment and got a ticket for the Big Bus Company tour. It was brilliant. Gordon the guide was fantastic and we had a good two hours entertainment for £15 each (according the website, tickets are £24, but the agents seem to be willing to haggle. The people after us got theirs for £14). Well worth it, especially as you also get 24 hours free travel on the Thames ferries and a few guided walking tours thrown in. We didn't have time for the walks, but we did cruise down the Thames from Westminster Bridge to Tower Hill with commentary voluntarily provided by the ferrymen and then wandered back along the riverbank towards the tube on a lovely summer's evening.

Sunday was a lazy day featuring the mother-of-all-picnics purchased from Waitrose and consumed on a blanket in the deer park at Stowe House near Buckingham. Nom nom nom.

On Monday gmul had to fulfil his obligations as a wage-slave so I met up with bend_gules and her sweetie for a very yummy Turkish lunch (hmmm, there seems to be a foodie theme here!) before wandering off to sell my bracelet, visit an art shop (where, amazingly, I did not buy anything) and finally retiring chez bend_gules to drink Pimms and gossip. Soon it was time to regroup with the boys at The Wellington on the Strand for yet more munchies before popping next door to The Lyceum to see Bill Bailey and friends.

The weekend could only have been improved by my *not* having serious blisters on my feet, but I managed thanks to multiple socks, and it was a very good weekend indeed :)

A couple of weeks ago gmul asked me if I'd like to go and see a Bill Bailey gig, and of course I jumped at the chance. In fact it was a benefit gig for an NGO that is trying to save orangutans and their habitat in Sumatra, with a lineup (according to TimeOut, The Guardian and the Orangaid 2008 FaceBook site) of Bill Bailey, Marcus Brigstocke, Russell Howard, Kevin Eldon, Shappi Khorsandi, and hosted by Dave Johns (see, bend_gules, I didn't make it up!).

In the event, neither Marcus Brigstocke nor Kevin Eldon turned up, which was very disappointing, and Bill Bailey's set was very short, but we did get a set from an Irish comic whose name escapes me but was pretty good, and a couple of sets of songs from Chrissie Hynde.

Bill Bailey - excellent (gnomes in the pot-pourri mines)
Unknown tall Irish bloke - excellent
Russell Howard - very good, perhaps a leetle bit adolescent
Shappi Khorsandi - did the same set she does every single time you hear her
Chrissie Hynde - bloody fantastic voice, somewhat lacking in tambourine skills ;)
Dave Johns - absolutely bloody awful. Thank goodness for the amusing Finnish bloke in the audience, who gave better than he got.

Overall it was a good night, apart perhaps from the cringe-inducing duet of Bill Bailey and Chrissie Hynde singing You Were Always On My Mind, which had quite obviously been decided upon roughly ten seconds before they did it. And I wasn't too sure about the speech from the founder of the NGO at the end either, but I think that merits a separate post. But overall, yes, laughs were had and I *really* need to get a doorbell that plays those five notes from Close Encounters :)

I have finally managed to get rid of the gold bracelet the FFBE gave me seven years ago as a symbol of his commitment to spend the rest of his life with me *passes bucket*. It has been cluttering up my karma for years now, and I'm really pleased that this last piece of his sickening miasma has gone to the great bullion melting pot in the sky. I sold it for scrap, which seems rather appropriate, and got a good price for it too. Yay, yay, and thrice yay.

So let's start with the fact that I have finally had it up to *here* with IE telling me it needs to close every two minutes, so I'm now using FireFox. Yes, I know, it took a while... :)

Out of curiosity, who is reading this LJ? Including people on my friendslist or not, and people who have me on their friendslist or not.

(not feeling so ill any more, but still dizzy, so really bored)

For those of you who lean towards a more Wild West look, Wild West Mercantile has spurs on sale. I'm particularly enamored of these:


Alas, I have absolutely no use (or extra money) for them.

Although not especially retrofuture at the moment I thought I would anounce my presence none-the-less.

I am a milliner and costume maker and I have a very keen interest in the obscure and wonderful.

Here's a traditional waisted top hat I made earlier:



I have a penchant for making exotic headwear. One of my more recent hats is a mechanical avian audio chronographic alert automata (a top hat with with a working cuckoo clock inside it).

I really like what I see in this community and will do my upmost to post here regularly.

regards

Agrajag, the millinery Jaguar

 This time I want to show you three new rings I made:
  
Other new items are here: www.fleur-de-irk.com 
And there is a sale on pink jewelry this month

Since most steampunk goggles don't work over glasses--and goggles that do go over glasses don't look very steampunk--I'm thinking of converting my metal-frame prescription glasses to goggles after I get new glasses. They're medium-size chrome ovals, actually quite similar to Adama's in the new BSG.

So... I looked in the usual places and haven't seen any projects like that. Does anyone here know of this, or will I be breaking new ground? I'm thinking of removing the sides and adding eyecups, or maybe taking the lenses out and making oval goggles around them. I suspect this would be cheaper than getting goggles and having prescription lenses ground for them.

First attempt at steampunk.
Muahahaha!





[oh, and I'm completely new to livejournal. How do I put the images in a link like everyone else does? xD]

Sorry if this has already been asked but does anyone know of a good store either online or in NYC to get bustle skirts?

Thanks