Rusty Cast Iron Picture Frame...

I'm still fascinated by the 'cast iron' paint effect...

Using it to decorate some boring Ikea picture frames for my collection of postcards featuring BIG steam engines that can be seen at Kew Bridge Steam Museum...
The 'rivets' are drawing pins which, on close inspection, I failed to measure out properly...
I've added a coat of lacquer this time...
Works well...

Illuminated Pink Octopus In a Clam Shell...

Every now and then it is 'politick' for me to build something for my companion..
I decided to make something that she could add to her treasured collection of 'tacky' mermaids...
All right, it's not a mermaid, but fits in with the general theme in her mermaid collection cabinet...
Apart from the shell, batteries, L.E.D. and baize, everything on this build was manufactured by me...
The octopus was made with a mould I struck from a piece of Nook Art jewelry...
This is 'Crap-Tech' in ornamental form..
Un-lit...Rear view...

Barometer Re-Mount...

I've re-mounted my barometer as I intend using it's original mounting for the Televisual Simulacrumating Device as a speaker mount...

I'm very fond of my barometer...
It tells me all I really need to know about the world outside...

Tick Tock Chicken Clock...

At the risk of seeming completely obsessed by time pieces, here's my current favourite clock...
It has a pleasingly loud 'tick, tock' which makes a nice change to the smooth silence of battery powered quartz movements...
It's a product of the People's Republic of China...
The mother hen's head nods with the tick...
It adds a comforting ambience to the room especially in the early hours of the morning when, I'm reminded by a stern voice, I should be in bed...

The Old Clock Face Revived...

I've wanted to revive this clock face for sometime now...

It did have it's original clock mechanism attached to the back but sadly it was way beyond repair (although I still have it stored in a box under the bench for future restoration/repair)...
I butchered the clock that I'd hung on the back wall of my shed and ended up with this 'shabby-chic' time-piece...
I even know what time I took this picture...

Beachwood Collection Cart (Luxury Model) 01

I had the cart all ready to attend a picnic...

Comfort and splendor guaranteed...

Sadly the venue was changed to a hall in in a nearby town and I balked at dragging it 7 miles there and (possibly inebriated) back home...

Smiths Selectric Mantle Clock Resto...

If there's one thing I truly dislike having to do it's removing paint...
The previous owners of this Smiths Selectric Bakelite Mantle Clock had given it at least two hefty coats of gloss white paint...
I daren't use any kind of paint stripper on it for fear I might damage the finish...

I'd love to say all this effort was worth it but...
The clock don't work...
I'll have to take it to see my man Beresford Greene (genius)
(Turns out I'm pretty crap with photo shop as well..)

Sensible Warning Sign...

It has been pointed out to me that perhaps, given the somewhat dangerous nature of of my creations, I should put up some kind of warning sign...
So I did...Though I must say that I dispute the word 'dangerous'...

Skeletal Hand...

In an idle moment between struggles I was measuring my hand...
I then made up the individual bones from canes I 'borrowed' from the garden...
And, hey-presto! Another reason for people to avoid my company...

What do you mean 'weird'..?

Every now and again I catch a glimpse of why people think I'm 'odd', won't visit and seem somewhat uneasy around me...
In my defense I'd like say that I never 'plan' items such as this. I just follow a path until I reach what I consider to be the end...
Another assumption is that I'm "on drugs"...
Well, outside of nicotine and caffeine, I've never found alcohol, narcotics, psychedelics or stimulants to be of any utility at all when it comes to 'being creative...'
This particular piece incorporates several experiments...

1. Taking a latex mold from a doll's face.
2. Casting a Sculpty replication of the doll's face.
3. Linking two 3v bulbs in parallel (or was it series..?)
4. Making a wooden support with old firework sticks.
5. Gluing bone to wood.

All completely normal behaviour (for a weirdo...)