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Dances with Clouds – Balloonship snow globe
Where would you go, and how would you travel? Dances with Clouds … a battered airship carried by a hot air balloon, drifting high among the tatters and wisps of clouds. Sometimes you write a story and...
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Tesla’s Workshop, Snow Globe Style
I was looking for a particular photo to explain how this snow globe, “Tesla’s Workshop,” came to be. When I was introduced to Mr. Tesla, far too late in my life for any reasonable explanation, I was...
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Crossroads – perspective on the divergent path
… … Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. ~ Robert Frost, “The Road Not Taken” When I thought of this poem, and the...
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Circular Logic – the snow globe returns
Circular Logic has made a round trip. From Denver to Boston and now back to Denver again, Circular logic was featured in the “Celebrating Snow Globes” winter exhibition at the Sandwich Glass Museum....
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Your Move – the chess game water globe
“I don’t know what game we’re playing, but I’m pretty sure it’s your move.” It might be a chess board, but then again, the squares march both horizontally and vertically. And the pieces seem a little …...
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Inspired by Nikola Tesla – Fate Magazine 1949
In the fall of 2012, I was fortunate to find a copy of a 1949 issue of Fate magazine, which began publishing in 1948 as a magazine chronicling the paranormal as well as scientific discoveries. While...
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Airships, Dirigibles and Zeppelins, oh my!
What is it about airships, you ask? I have no easy answer. I like the way they look, the adventures they imply, the endless possibilities. And they seem somehow, green, you know? They just putter along...
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Re-Run — Or, “have you seen this one before?”
Repurposing, refabricating, refurbishing and … Re-Run. This charming little vintage television did not want to be hidden away; it wanted to run out and tell its story again. “I have NOT outlived my...
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The strange saga of the Warrior Rhino snow globe
It was a simple idea at the time. I wanted, I planned, to make a snow globe sculpture called “Invisible Carousel.” I sketched it out to perfection. Frollicking giraffes and unicorns, a pig and a...
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Cherry Creek Arts Festival in July
Ooh, so much to do! We are very excited to announce that Camryn Forrest Designs will be showing at the Cherry Creek Arts Festival in Denver, Colorado the second weekend in July — July 5-6-7 to be...
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Proto-Droid – the robot of parts unknown
I like this little guy. He’s a droid of sorts, a robot made of leftover parts. Maybe a prototype: still figuring out where everything goes. Weren’t the first real robots much the same: a little bit of...
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Diving into a Sea Story
In so many endeavors, humans try to emulate other creatures and end up standing out … well, like an opposable thumb. We want to soar in the skies so we create vibrant colored hot air balloons. It’s a...
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Tesla’s Workshop, Snow Globe Style
I was looking for a particular photo to explain how this snow globe, “Tesla’s Workshop,” came to be. When I was introduced to Mr. Tesla, far too late in my life for any reasonable explanation, I was...
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Proto-Droid – the robot of parts unknown
I like this little guy. He’s a droid of sorts, a robot made of leftover parts. Maybe a prototype: still figuring out where everything goes. Weren’t the first real robots much the same: a little bit of...
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Off to SteamCon V …
Will be taking a few favorite snow globes to show the “steamconstituents.” All designs and photographs are copyright (c) Camryn Forrest Designs, 2013.
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Steampunk My Ride
Take one BIG-wheeled vintage bicycle and add a rider, gears, chains and mysterious mechanical modifications and you have a unique means of transportation, or as we like to call it: “Steampunk My Ride.”...
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Oil and Water – or, Oil Well That Ends Well
Ooooh! It was a dark and stormy night. Mystery snow globe. A Black Snowstorm. A riddle: What’s thick and black and swirling with potential? What? A steam-powered oil derrick? Isn’t that a...
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Airship Cadillac – In a Realm All Its Own
In the late 1950s, Cadillacs were sometimes sold with the slogan, “In a Realm all its own.” Cadillacs are often associated with mystery, imagination, elegance, luxury and power. Sort of like Steampunk,...
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Tesla Mends a Broken Heart (snow globe)
One of my favorite scientists talked to me about Nikola Tesla a few years ago, saying that if he’d had the support and resources, he could have done amazing things. In fact, we have no idea what he...
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Below the Storm – Submarine Snow Globe
What if someone was diving who did not know that all kinds of storm was raging above? Swimming, as it were, Below the Storm. This piece is just that: the quiet calm place below the storm, where we...
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