Feature Feature + Customer Appriciation

Good morning and happy Summer! Hurrrrrr. Okay, real quick before I fall back to sleep I wanted to give a shout out to two wonderful people who featured Steam Society this week and also a beautiful customer photo. Wow, if it gives you any indication of how busy I am, I got 26 emails in the time it took me to write this paragraph, and its barely 6am.

Steam Society featured in Etsy Treasury "Creature Comforts". Check out the link until Saturday morning, when the treasury expires. Thanks to KellyIsNice for curating and including me in this one!

Also this week...Steam Society featured in Affordable Steampunk Spotlight. Thanks to Jessica for including my tricked-out high wheeler bicycle in this gallery on Byhand.me. It is always especially nice to be recongnized as affordable. :)

Now on to the pretty picture portion of this post. Whew, it's a little too early for alliteration. And there I go again. This photo was thoughtfully sent by the gypsy-spirited Risto from Finland who purchased a one-of-a-kind Adventurer's Flying Copper Key Necklace. I sent along a little owl pendent, which turned out perfectly on Anna the Gypsy Queen.

Business Development + Casting Call

Good morning, I'm happy to report that sunshine has finally made its way to San Francisco and I am NOT COLD for the first time in months.

In my on-going quest to either burn down my house or suffocate myself with toxic fumes, I have taken up soldering in my "kitchen". Now I'm extremely tempted to try to set up an electroplating rig too. Hey, I mean, Richard Feynman set one up in his dorm room. I don't have access to a vacuum though, which may complicate things. (That's imploding vacuum, not vroom carpet cleaner vacuum, although I don't have one of those either.) I have had luck teaming up with a US based metal finishing company, and while this will increase my costs, it will insure that my jewelry and metal accessories are certifiably lead-free and safe. This is important to you, (supremely awesome Steam Society members), since I don't want anyone being exposed to the unsafe metals that are rampantly available on the internet with virtually no accountability, but also important to me (hands-on designer) since I am pretty much swimming in all my design supplies and I'm pretty sure my daily 2-3 cups of green tea doesn't contain enough antioxidants to offset heavy metal poisoning.

Moving ON. I am looking for a small company, possibly local to the bay area, to do some custom metal castings and/or stampings. I have 8-15 designs for metal pendants that I want to have produced in smallish runs and I'm interested in teaming up with a metal production company that can do fairly inexpensive custom work, either old school or CAD/CAM. Send me your leads!

I'm slowly working on getting my hand-screen-printed and chemically-altered textile stuff up and ready, and I've turned my bathroom into a toxic fume bay in the process. Here's a sneak peak at some of my scraps I was messing around with while waiting for the dyes to develop:


And just so this post isn't too boring and non self-promoting, here are two of my favorite new items up for sale. Lots more up for grabs in the Steam Society Online Store, plus a birthstone-collection-sale of freshwater pearl steampunk jewelry for June Birthdays.

Tricked-Out Retro High-Wheeler Bicycle Necklace


Uber Ultra Alpha and Omega Working Clock Skeleton Key Necklace

Customer Appreciation Photos

Attention future and past customers: I love to see what happens to my designs after they've been sold! Become one of my favorite customers ever by sending me pictures of your Steam Society item(s) being worn. If it's okay with you and you'd like a little slice of delicious Steam Society immortality, send me your pictures and see them posted here. You'll get a nice discount on your next purchase and the highly coveted status of an Elite member of the Steam Society. YES!

Debuting my customer appreciate spotlight is the AMAZING Katja from Germany. I designed a super custom top hat for her using fabric she sent me to match her outfit. It turned out to be gawgeous, just like Katja, and she was kind enough to give me permission to post her pictures here.



You can email YOUR photos and any links to your website/blog/etc that you'd like posted to SteamSocietyDesigns@gmail.com. Don't have any Steam Society fashion to photograph?! Relax, I got you covered. You can get your very own wearable hedonism right at the Official Steam Society Online Store.

Off topic/On topic

Off Topic: Its a Star Trike, and I want one.


On Topic: Special Blog-Only Teaser of Upcoming Steam Society Fashion (Oooo!)


In other news, I've been crazy busy working on getting some of the Burning Man collection fashion ready to hit the market. Its been slowed up by the day-to-day work of running a design company, but I'm getting really excited about how it's shaping up. If only I could figure out how to sleep less... Well, I have a pile of quantum theory documentaries I'm working my way through, so maybe I'll come up with something. So, who wants to make me a Star Trike to take to Burning Man?


Things you could do:

Visit the Steam Society Official Website
Shop for Designer Steampunk Jewelry and Fashion
Indulge my shameless self-promoting at the new Steam Society Facebook

Steam SocietyDesigns's Profile