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Feeling Blue (in a very good way)
A quick shout out to my friends – new and old - at MileHiCon in Denver. I took a dozen of my snow globes to the art room last weekend and came home with an award. First place for 3-D artwork. I am...
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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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Citrus Sky (beaded water globe)
This juicy little snow globe is a departure from my curious inventions, vagabond airships, steampunk’d machines and endless Escher-esque staircases. It is simply a study in colors and shapes that I...
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Waiting, Waiting for the Next Big Thing
If you’ve ever seen the amazing endless staircases drawn by M.C. Escher, you may have noted that just about everyone in them is busy going nowhere. Up the down staircase. Back where you started. In...
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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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Heart of Gold sparkle snow globe
Hey. You know who you are. Click to view slideshow. Custom Heart of Gold sparkle snowglobe, design and photographs copyright (c) Camryn Forrest Designs, Denver, Colorado, 2013
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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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Making Christmas Time
It was a challenge, I think. Out of the blue I was asked, “Could you do a Christmas globe?” I’ve avoided the theme out of pure stubbornness. It’s become such a cliche. After all, there are so many...
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Glimpses of Angels
There are people who say they see angels everywhere, those who say it’s not possible, and those who aren’t quite sure. Sometimes I am reminded of angels in subtle ways: a quick smile, a gentle...
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A Very Good Year
Experimenting with a very fine and very dense crushed glitter, it struck me how rich and red the liquid was when shaken: almost opaque, yet dancing with a reflected sparkle. In the language of grapes:...
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THINGS are looking up
Maybe the best part of this snowstorm design is that the title came long after the visual design. And it was the kind of perfect you-gotta-love-it grin for me, lover of puns and multiple...
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Can She Bake a Cherry Pie?
Sorry, but the refrain of that happy little ditty is stuck in my brain-chimes at the moment, darling Billy. We are happy to be invited to the Cherry Creek Arts Festival, Denver, Colorado July 4-5-6....
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Random Thoughts — snow globe
Yeah, it’s like that. Random. Thoughts. People say, how do you come up with these ideas, and I have to make up an answer. Are they saying I’m a little “out there?” or is that a compliment? The truth...
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Reach …
The word that comes closest is yearning. It’s that feeling that there is something powerful, just out of reach, something you can almost touch. It’s desire, and belief, and suspension of belief too —...
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Armored Heart – sparkle snow globe
Toughen up. Harden your heart. It’s a scary world out there. We cover our hearts with bits of protection: the scars from long-ago loves, the uncertainty about our worthiness, worry over heartbreak yet...
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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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Magic Happens (Happy 100th!) Sparkle Snow Globe
As I pulled together the thoughts and images to post this art today, I realized that this was my 100th blog post. Back a few months ago, when I realized this “magic” number was approaching, I thought I...
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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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Grow Old With Me (sparkle water globe)
A wisp of a lyric, written on the wind, “Grow old with me, the best is yet to be.“ - John Lennon and Robert Browning had the same idea. Along those simple lines, a snow globe holds a couple of...
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