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New York Library spotlights Steampunk

Petriglass

The Fall of October Rain 

Making fabric covered buttons

Tutorial: Steampunk Surveillance Arthropod

How to write a telegram properly

For those who think good clothes these days are cheap, you should read this article, including the price conversions. And to think girls were expected to have different outfits everyday in the 1920s!

This: 

I have definitely seen biscuit boxes that would work for this, it doesn't have to be that particular brand!

Steampunk Boomboxes!Look at this awesomeness!

How to antique cheap gold buttons

And I love this quote, shared on Facebook:  "It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing many, many months successively, without being at any ball of any description, and no material injury accrue either to body or mind;--but when a beginning is made--when the felicities of rapid motion have once been, though slightly, felt--it must be a very heavy set that does not ask for more." From Emma by Jane Austen.

A man named Danny is building a full size model of The Nautilus 

Elementary demonstrates the right way to update a classic hero