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These are a little old if you follow my FB page... But I met with Chris over the work on the Circus and he snapped these at the table.

work work work

More art for CTFOG

Concepts and Scent Lockets

So I've been working on concepts for A Circus tent Full Of Ghosts and i have a few to post:

These are just a few of the main players. We plan to at least have a sample copy of the book at VUDUCON

On another note, I have been wanting a scent locket for a while now but the cheapest I have found have been in the $70.00 - $90.00 range. Not to mantion most are very girly. So I made a quick trip to SkyCraft (I love the smell of grease and aircraft parts on my lunch break) and I picked up a little Doflotchy for a whole .50 cents. I rearranged the screw and added a dab of locktight so it would not go anywhere, drilled out the stem of the screw, and stuffed the core with muslin. I than made a choker with some beads I had.

Here is the final product:

Anyway, this morning I loaded it up with BPAL's "Arkham" and it seems to work well. It's not silver like most recommend but the brass seems to transfer the body heat just fine (and looks steampunk in the process).

so now I am exuding:

"A shadowy, unapproachable forest of maple, birch, dogwood, cypress and pine softened by a garland of New England wildflowers: bergamot, columbine, rue anemone, blue violet, creeping phlox, bloodroot, toadflax, and pixie moss."       <- love this smell BTW.

I have to finish up the concept arts this coming week and I really want to get back to the soul tree. Of course I still have my own series for VUDUCON... Busy Busy Beaver...

Puny me, clean spaces, & the Amazing Circus Tent

I managed to put the majority of my costume together over the weekend.

As I'm sure you can see it needs some work... Mostly my own physique. So I'm working hard to beef back up after years of sedentary procrastination. As for the costume it needs some brassy bits and a harness for the canister in my hand but I would say 98% done.

Speaking of weekends this one was a productive one. We were able to clean my "man cave" to fit more HHN paraphernalia as well my various random... randomness that I make/collect. Not only that but we we also cleaned out the garage to start construction on the Soul Tree. (my wife says it was to fit the car in... pshaw) I plan on creating a step by step how to on how I will do it. So expect to see something on that after this weekend. Currently I have a bucky Skeleton, a more realistic skull with jaw removed, chicken wire, and pool noodles... But I'm getting ahead of myself.

In other news the "A Circus tent Full of Ghosts" art is progressing nicely and the official cover art is now on the Kindle version for only $5.99!