Doctor Who Wallpaper: Amy Pond and the Silence

Oh, that feeling when Amy's reflection in "Day of the Moon" reveals that she has seen far too many Silents, that "oh crap!" feeling, yeah, I'm getting it just thinking about it.

It's OWL good!

Finally giving myself more time to work on what I love. Too bad silver has been around $40/oz lately (about four times the cost I was paying when I started making sterling silver jewelry in 2006). I'm turning to less expensive metals like copper and brass to satisfy my jewelry making needs. I have a couple of giant sheets of copper right now, but it's so thin! I had no idea how much that mattered with sawing sheet metal. The metal bends as you're sawing and since I'm still learning how to saw sheet metal, I end up breaking a ton of saw blades. One thing that I found helped is that I took a square of copper and hammered it a bit until the metal wasn't as malleable. I only broke one blade for this owl pendant, and that makes me super happy!

"Are you my mummy?"

Dragon*Con 2011 in Atlanta, GA

For those of you who don't get the reference, our costumes are from the episode "The Empty Child" from Season 1 of Doctor Who. Alex found these sweet authentic WWII British civilian issued gas masks somewhere online. So we cleaned them and then gutted the respirator with my dad's can opener from the army for opening MRE's, to get all of the charcoal, mesh, and junk out.

Visit my Flickr photostream for more pictures from Dragon*Con!

Doctor Who Wallpaper: Sometimes Evil Doesn't Make a Sound...

I've been searching for screenshots from Doctor Who/ Buffy to make a new tshirt design. In the meantime, here's a new wallpaper I made. Not safe for those who had nightmares about the Silence.