Sassy Steampunk
Our collaborations with Tempus Fugit Design have been many and wonderful but this one might be my favorite so far! Our Medusa steampunk corset was set off so well, worn by the adorable Masha Bochuk, [...]
Highlighting New Student Work
It's been a year since we launched our online course! It is now humming along with cool people from all over the world (7 countries so far) creating a variety of beautiful costumes and other [...]
Custom Top Hats: Druid and Nemo
We've made two fabulous custom top hats in the last couple of weeks. The first featured a tree design with a blue all-seeing eye and tiny horns. The flared shape gives it a dapper flair. [...]
NorWesCon Steampunk Fun
We finished a set of pauldrons and an octopus eyepatch for a steampunk pirate yesterday. They were packed up quick and are now winging their way to NorWesCon, a sci-fi and fantasy convention in Seattle, [...]
Steampunk the Greek Myths
The snake entwined steampunk style corset has generated a lot of buzz! It is a commission for a customer's Halloween costume. Here are some photos of the finished product. These photos were taken by a [...]
DIY Halloween: the series
Two years ago I gathered a wide variety of tutorials together for a month of blog posts about DIY Halloween costumes, from burlesque to zombies, Star Wars to steampunk. I recently realized that [...]
Halloween Projects
We've got a lot of custom orders for Halloween this year, more than ever before. After the steampunk corset went viral on Facebook, we got orders for 3 of them. We are working on two [...]
December Doings
We've been quieter than usual online lately. It's taking a lot of time to catch up on custom orders. Here is an amazing top hat in progress, made for our favorite Steampunk Overlord in the [...]
Burning Man or DragonCon?
Well, we're back from CA. It was a wonderful trip - so good to see old friends and meet new ones. The Temple of Visions Burning Trunk Show and Prepare for the Playa [...]