Steampunk and charms.. what more could there be..

I love the whole process of working with metal. The hammering, layering and connections. This charm went through several upgrades til I came to a combination I really liked. Hammered copper hearts layered with several types of gears

Life interrupted .... what a week

Where to start.. it's been a creative and very stressful week. First off those of you that know me, it's been a tense week, my son that is stationed in Afghanistan is changing bases, due to several factors. The biggest being that France and Canada are exiting the conflict. So contact with him has been hit and miss. Now onto the big trauma for the week. My dog was severely injured. His under belly cut open. After what Dr. Melissa (not my daughter) thought would be simple stitches turned into surgery. We have no clue how this occurred. We have looked at every nook and cranny of our property, to find no clue as to what has happened.

The creative part of my week. The past week has been doing a blog hop/book tour over at Remnants of Olde. What a awesome hop. If you haven't had a chance to check it out, you should. Find the link in a post further down.

I kicked off the Cloth RR on my yahoo group AlteredWithOutLimits this week. There is 5 of us playing and we will be creating a page for each of our themes. I chose Steampunk.. I will now share my pages. I can't wait to see what the others do with this theme. The images I used for my sign in page are from The Sum of All Crafts