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A History of American Snow Globes
Now and then in our travels on the internet, we find interesting documents about snow globes. Bonus: this document, a Masters thesis, is about the history of snow globes, and includes a paragraph or so...
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Family Reunion – Time Flies
Many of us have two types of family reunions: the one that exists only in the imagination, where everyone is relaxed and sits around enjoying homemade meals (with nary a dish to be washed, and nobody...
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Grapes of Raft
A play on words becomes a play on shapes. Sometimes art starts with an image first, sometimes the words twist around until the physical form takes shape. Inspired by a trip to Crested Butte, Colorado,...
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Happy Thoughts — the power of positive thinking
What are your happy thoughts? And those of the people around you? There are some folks who believe that thoughts and attitude are visible through auras surrounding a person. Healing thoughts, dark...
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Untangling “The Tangle”
We’re excited to have one of our liquid globes featured in the upcoming independent movie, “The Tangle” by writer/director/actor Christopher Soren Kelly. And while we are being patient for the movie...
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Hold Your Horses!
You hear a common phrase a thousand times, then one day you hear it anew: Hold Your Horses! Of course it harks back to a day when people used horses daily, when “hold your horses” probably meant “stop,...
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Wish Upon a Star
When you wish upon a star, makes no difference who you are, anything your heart desires, will come to you. Jiminy Cricket (Pinocchio) Custom snow globe with sculpted clay house and tiny couple on the...
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Happy Thanksgiving
Happy Thanksgiving, here’s a gearduckken. All designs and images are copyright (c) 2015 and 2016 Camryn Forrest Designs, Denver, Colorado, USA.
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Always …
Sometimes you just know: Always. One of a kind embellished silver/gray glass heart with metal hardware and gear details. When shaken, the glass globe fills with silver and gray reflective sparkles...
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Journey to the Stars
Who hasn’t wished for the courage and opportunity to take the first wild step into the unknown? “Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.” – Matsuo Basho “Journey to the Stars”...
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To Hell and Back
For many people, the next road trip is only an excuse to secure another snow globe for the ever-expanding collection. Prompted by the fascinating request to “Go to hell, and bring me back a snow...
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Octo-Thought
My mind is a messy tangle of tangents, reaching out every which way. You’ve heard someone say they enter a room and can’t remember what they wanted? That happens in my thoughts: I reach in for one...
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An Airship in a Snow Globe …
Who was it who said with such certainty “steampunk and snow globes do not go together?” Well, I beg to differ. To see the rest of the excellent photo essay by Danielle Lirette of Westword newspaper,...
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Truly Madly Deeply
Oh, the irony! When your feels are so true and deep, and yet so murky and muddled. When certainty and doubt dance together. When your highs are sparkly iridescence and your lows … your lows are both...
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Winter … Is Coming
When you are standing in the record-breaking heat of summer, looking for a spot of shade at an arts festival, but finding mostly asphalt and sunshine, remind yourself … Winter … Is Coming. Handmade...
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Gearly Beloved
Step one, make a tiny hat, then add tinier goggles. Step Two, float a headless goggled hat, a bowler to be specific, in the lazy liquid of a snow globe. Step Three, shake the globe. When shaken, fill...
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Glimpse of a Globe
Remember when we told you that an independent movie, “The Tangle,” was featuring one of our snow globes in this very stylish neo-noir, hard sci-fi feature film? Well, the film makers have just released...
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Moonlight Ride
Silent as the stars, carried on the wind, a lone balloon on a moonlight ride. Over the sleeping city, dancing in the wisps of fireplace smoke and weaving over a thousand dreams below. When shaken, the...
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Coming Home to Sky Island City
Imagine a city in the sky, a floating island of bustling industry. Airships carry passengers and supplies from land to land, from cloud to cloud. The island is a blink in the eye of the universe; it is...
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More on The Tangle movie
If you’ve been following along, you’ll recall that we provided a unique snow globe for the independent movie, The Tangle.The good news is the movie is nearly complete – they are shooting a final scene...
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