Greetings and Salutations!
Why has it been ever so long since I updated this blasted blog of mine? Lots of things - good and bad - have blocked me from focusing on this blog, and before I can wrap my head around all of the content I've yet to upload, I at least feel like I need to give all of my three viewers or so (I mean gosh, I know I'm not popular yet, am I?) a heads up on what's been going on.
So my last post was what, in April? Since then, I have received my finished products of my flasks out from the fiery depths of the gas kilns and I have to say loves, they look pretty good. I'm making some more over the summer and that way, I'll have some things ready to throw into the kiln come the start of next semester. That is, if my professor will let me back in to take ceramics four. Either way, hopefully we'll have some pictures soon!
Immediately following my release from education I attended the Steampunk World's Fair in Piscataway, New Jersey with a couple of friends of mine and my boyfriend. All in all, we had a pretty good time. And guess what! I found someone who, just like me, is going to school for ceramics/pottery and wants to bring the steampunk aesthetic into the medium and vice versa! I still need to email her, but trust me, the half-hour geeking about different types of clay and kiln methods proves that she's a pretty cool gal.
And to the reason I have not updated the blog nor emailed anyone about it: My lovely computer's hard disk failed me without any warning. Currently, I am typing this on a laptop with no saved memory of a single picture or document that it used to have before the crash. We had to get a new hard drive and install vista instead of seven or XP (I own a PC, not a Mac, for those of whom were wondering) because we can't find any of their discs. So needless to say, I had nothing prepared. And I was very sad. I still am, but I'm not giving up hope that we can still get all of my precious documents back!
So coming up in news, we have: Information and photographs of how the flasks (and others) turned out, all the fun things we did with the cool people from the Steampunk World's Fair, new pictures of my current projects, and a few new things to the blog.
For one, I'd like to introduce you to my boyfriend's new blog. He embraces his new steampunk persona and writes journal-style about his Lovecraftian adventures. More information coming up within the next few posts or so!
Also, I'd like to start a little side-project via webcam. I'd like to call it 'Project SteamPlay'. Introductory and Starter videos to be posted within the next couple months when I can get around to it, but the main ideas are these: Roleplay. Steampunk persona. Webcam. Steampunk Community. I hope you can guess the rest for now!
Until next time - Steam ON!
(I promise I'll never say that again.)
Kelly
