Category Archives: Making Things

Origami Night

Tonight George and I had an Origami night. Lins and Gav had bought me an Origami Set for Christmas and George loves origami so we spent the evening making Cranes, Ducks, Frogs, Whistles, Baskets, Sycamore Seeds and Saddle-pointed hyperbolic forms. more »

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Fingerbobs: Gulliver

Tonight I had nothing to do in the evening. So I made Gulliver from Fingerbobs. A pong pong ball with a thumb hole cut with a scalpel. Two eyes drawn on and an orange felt beak glued on. And a more »

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Beauty Products for Morlocks

Real products for fictional characters! Continue reading

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My First Sculpture is Exhibited

  The Future Station Festival at Metal on Edgehill Station has started. The festival is a combination of exhibition and performance and I went to the opening of the exhibition and launch of the Festival last night. I am featuring more »

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Weekend at the Asylum

The Biggest UK Steampunk Gathering happened this weekend with the 2nd Annual Weekend at the Asylum gathering taking place in Lincoln. It is a year since the first Asylum saw my sudden appearance on the steampunk scene, and what a more »

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How Why DIY at the Nerve Centre

This Sunday the Nerve centre treated us to a day of How Why DIY. First I had my fortune told by the most estimable Laird Howard Ashley Storey and his amazing Spinning Fortunagraph. Remarkably accurate…but not entirely a cold read! more »

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