Because I love Minecraft
[link] I made skins of the three main characters from my book Stellarnet Rebel
[link] which are free to download here:
[link]I also filmed and edited a steampunk ring tutorial.
[link] I'd noticed that some steampunk rings were priced as high as $55 on Etsy, but they looked really basic (others, yes, are very complicated contraptions of wire and found items, but these in particular did not look so difficult). So I did an experiment: I made some rings that look exactly like the ones on Etsy (there's a pic of them in my gallery) and figured out that they can be made in less than 10 minutes, for less than $10. I don't know what technique others are using (and by "technique" I mean glue, because that's basically all you're doing... gluing a watch piece to a ring base). Maybe they're using $20 worth of magical fairy glue on each one. I dunno. I'm using E-6000.
I taught the process in a workshop for the Triangle Jewelry Makers last night and they were so excited about these, I went ahead and filmed a tutorial. I'm a total editing noob, so I learned a lot about OpenShot Video Editor today.
Before anyone freaks out that I'm "copying" the Etsy sellers or violating a copyright, let me explain that I've been making steampunk rings since 2008, and making steampunk and neo-Victorian jewelry for longer than that. Tons of people have been copying my steampunk jewelry for years... In fact, I made a ring very similar to these back in 2008, but thought it was kind of boring so I moved on to more interesting things. So, for all I know, THEY copied ME. But, oh, well.