I've actually made a small version of this top hat for my Christmas tree a couple years ago! EASY!

I just wanted to share one of my latest pieces. I made this with the intentions of creating a "hat adornment" (pin). But I also don't see why it can't be a brooch as well.

You can find this item on my Etsy shop at this link:  https://www.etsy.com/listing/506595964/dramatic-dragon-eye-hat-adornment-p715?ref=shop_home_active_1

Once in a while I'll get some nice surprises with requests from customers who have purchased jewelry items from me. It may be a few years ago since their last purchase, and I'm grateful, I'm glad they still come back. And I'm always happy to hear from them! A customer recently commented, "I don't see butterfly pieces anymore on your shop". Sometimes trends come and go. So I thought, "Maybe the butterfly is making a come back this season?". And this is what happened...

You can find this item directly on my Etsy shop at this link:
https://www.etsy.com/listing/516175779/butterfyl-cluster-brooch-p707-steampunk?ref=shop_home_active_5

You can find this item directly on my Etsy shop at this link:
https://www.etsy.com/listing/502690352/butterfyl-cluster-brooch-p708-steampunk?ref=shop_home_active_6

A reminder as to how cool Captain Nemo's Automobile was in the movie "The League of Extraordinary Men" (2003). I totally fell in love with the fancy filigree detailing on this car. Seeing this design really had an impact on me in my own Steampunk Jewelry design. The design was visually impressive with incredibly fine filigree embellishments like a piece of art.

So I have this friend who is an aspiring film maker. He asked me if I could design something using a computer thumb drive. He kind of explained that he wanted the design to be sort of "Steampunk/Gothic" with a "Futuristic" touch? This is what happens when you give me a thumb drive...and a design challenge!

Steampunk'd Yoda. Yeah.

You gotta copyright everything nowadays. To my surprise, while wanting to customize a t-shirt from spreadshirt.com site, I find an image on a t-shirt! SOMEONE STOLE MY IMAGE and made it into a graphic. People can buy this graphic and use to create their own t-shirt! I was shocked. Good news: I pursued and alerted spreadshirt.com on this infringement. Spreadshirt.com quickly took it off their site, apologized and alerted the culprit. It was so obvious that the image was mine.!