New Pendants in my Etsy Shop!

Cheaper than diamonds for Valentines day! Available in my etsy shop: http://www.etsy.com/shop/michelelynchart?section_id=5752905
Back to work I go...Happy Monday! xo Michele

Sculpted Pendants!

I really enjoyed creating these sculpted face pendants! The face part of the pendant is approx. 1 3/4" round. Lots of vintage parts on each. The necklaces are approx. 24 inches. Available in my etsy shop soon! Or just drop me an email! michelel@michelelynchart.com

Little Franny

Meet little Franny, before the Soul Sucker came to town she wanted to join the circus. Now the circus is a scary place and Franny is afraid of it.

She's 10 1/2" tall x 4" x 2 1/2" deep

Franny will be on her way to POP gallery in New Mexico soon ;o) More things coming soon :o)) xo Michele

Until Death Do Us Part 2

Another grim reaper couple :o) Just finished them! He's 5" tall and she's 4" tall.

Hope everyone is staying cool out there! It was 104 here today without the heat index. I think they said it felt like 114 with the heat index. All I know is it is one hot steam bath out there! xo Michele

Spooky Time Jingles Etsy Shop Now Open!!

I'm sorry I've been so absent lately! I've been working my tail off I just haven't had time to blog, sadly. I took a full time job a while back so that's been keeping me busy on top of the National Halloween Show I participated in with Spooky Time Jingles and then the secret project that I've hinted at. I'll be able to tell you more closer to November ;o) I've made 5 pieces for that. Which I think I might have shown you all most of them anyway ;o) So there were only 3 pieces that I sent to the National Halloween Show that didn't sell there! Hooray! And they are now available in Spooky Time Jingles etsy shop! 

Click on the spooky time jingles picture to be taken to the shop! Lots of great art there! 

Here is the Biohazard Medic that I have in the shop:

He is one of my all time favorites!! There two more pieces that I've included in the shop!

I'm trying to get a piece made for the Spooky Time Jingles update tomorrow night at midnight but I'm not sure I'm going to make it! I'll let you all know if I do! Hope everyone has been having a great summer so far! xo Michele

I promise I haven't been slacking!

I'm sorry I've been so absent lately! I promise I haven't been slacking! Between finally getting over that nasty bug I had, working full time and working on another project I just haven't found the time to blog lately :o( I've missed you all! This is Isabella and she's for a secret project that I'll tell you all about later ;o) But I just thought it would be nice for everyone to see that I am working! I promise! Isabella is 11 inches tall to the top of her hair so she's a bit bigger than the other steampunk souls I've been creating :o) Hope everyone is well and being creative :o)) I'm off this weekend, so it will be a mache marathon!! xoxo

Biohazard Medic

Thought I would show you all, one of the things I've been working on for the National Halloween Convention. He's a Soul Sucker biohazard medic. His little jar his filled with tiny vintage watch parts. He's one of the biggest in the Soul Sucker series that I've done, he's 13 1/2" tall x 3 3/4" wide x 4" deep. I'll be sad to see him go, he's one of my all time favorites along with the gatekeeper, izzy & lizzy...and a few more ;o)

Hope everyone is having a great week! I can't believe it's Wednesday (LOL!!! I had to come back and edit this when I realized it's THURSDAY!!! LOL!!!)  already!! Lots more pictures of items for the NHC coming :o) xo Michele

Sneak Peek at Spooky Time Jingles Update!

Meet the Medic! Another one of the Evil Soul Suckers workers! He will be available on Spooky Time Jingles Update on the 13th!! I know it's only the 10th and I was going to wait until the 12th to post him, but I added him into my flicker account so I figured the cat was outta the bag anyway ;o) He will be available to purchase on the Spooky Time Jingles site at midnight on the 13th, look for my avatar at the bottom. But be sure to check out all of the wonderful artwork on the site :o) It's always so fun to see everyone's new things!

I have one more thing that will also be available on Spooky Time Jingles:

This sweet little black crow, steampunk style! He is 8 1/2" tall w/out his curly cue (9 1/2 with it) x 3 1/2 x 3 1/2".

If anyone is interested in purchasing these pieces just email me at michelel@michelelynchart.com

Little guy is feeling much much better thanks to amoxicillian! We went out last night for hubby's birthday and I have to say, his birthday ended for him much the same way my birthday ended for me, it will take him a few days to recover lol!

Hope everyone is having a great weekend! I'm still working feverishly on the pieces for the National Halloween Convention! I'll be sure to post some pictures! xo Michele

Waylon & Daylon Conjoined Pumpkin Twins

Meet Waylon & Daylon the conjoined pumpkin twins! Both are afraid of spiders an one has made a web on their belly and is crawling towards Daylon, the bad part is they are both trying to run in opposite directions! They are just shy of 5" tall x 5"wide x 3" deep, the belt buckle is a vintage find ;o) They will be available on my ebay page on Sunday at 9 pm central time. Ebay id is michelelynchdesigns, you can also find the link in the sidebar of my blog.

There's a skelly bird coming on Monday to ebay, I should have pictures up on the blog by Sunday :o)

I woke up to snow on the ground again! I really was hoping we were through with that! It didn't stick around long though, the rain that lasted the rest of the afternoon washed it away. Hope everyone has a great weekend! xo Michele

Gotcha!

Gotcha! This piece was inspired by how quickly time can sneak up on you! Remember that birthday of mine? LOL. I actually had him all sculpted before that, but didn't have him painted yet. It's taken me a while to get back into the groove of things this week!

Gotcha the grim reaper hangs on the wall. There is a hook already in his back for easy hanging. He is 8 1/2" tall x 3"wide x 2 1/2" deep. He has a vintage watch piece for his eye, screws in his jaw (reminds me of the snake bite piercings!) a gear that acts as the button to hold his robe together, and a vintage watch face, entire watch piece with it's tiny rubies intact, and a spinner. He is entirely hand sculpted out of paper clay over an armature. His hands are epoxy,  He is hand painted and sealed. The title, date and my signature are on the back. He's available in my ETSY SHOP :o)

Hope everyone has a great Mardi Gras weekend! Can't decide if we're going to venture to downtown St. Louis or not tomorrow, it's a wild time for sure! Whatever you decide to do have a creative, fun, fantastic one! xo Michele

Emily-Wall Hanging Steampunk Soul and Website HELL!

Okay first off let me intro Emily and then I'll tell you about my personal website HELL experience ;o)

Meet Emily, she’s a bit taller and older than the other Steampunk Souls so they all tend to look up to her. She really doesn’t want all the responsibility. Emily longs for the days she could read books, write in her journal and play with her dolls.

She’s 12″ tall x 3 wide x 2″ deep and hangs on the wall. Her eye is a vintage watch piece, her arm a vintage skeleton key and watch gear, On her chest is a vintage Swiss watch movement. Her foot is a sewing machine part.  The little button on her collar is the wind up mechanism of a vintage pocket watch. Her hat is made up of an old watch part tin, and a light bulb. She’s available in my etsy shop

Warning, this is where my rant starts! 
Now, lemme tell you about hell...it's not a great place to be and for me it starts with....let me just re do my website because it's so outdated...I'm sure some of you saw me post that naive little sentence...so I go to the place that hosts my site and I see wordpress! Great! I think to myself, this should be fairly easy. Riiiiight!! I am not a techie person, I know enough html to make me very dangerous! So I build the pages okay, it's slow moving and each tiny thing can take me an hour to do! The pages are kinda bland and boring but that's okay at least I can edit them and maybe someday I'll learn some fancy stuff. So then I come to the blog, and obviously wordpress is actually a blog building program. So I begin checking into everything and find this plugin that will import my blogger blog. Well silly me thinks this means everything (does anyone else ever expect alot and get let down all the time?? sheesh!)! First it takes me HOURS and I mean hours to get this plugin to work and I jump out of my chair screaming I DID IT!! WOOO HOOO! Only then I'm looking at it and I HATE IT! I can no longer see your beautiful faces! I don't have my favorite blogs, I can't see what you've posted, the list goes on and on! So now I don't sleep on Monday night. I've spent all day working on the website and that means a good 12+ hours (LOL I know you can't tell from the site!) and I don't feel like I've done the right thing :o( I write to Ginny. I write to Luthien. Someone HELP lol...no one knows wordpress :o( I forgot to mention when I did the plugin to import blogger to wordpress you have to use a standard template and it wiped out my old template and everything I had built here on this blog. Yeah I was having an OH S%$# moment again. So I think all day yesterday (tues) I can do this I can make it work. Then I get a comment on my blog! YEAH!! I think it's one of you...NO, it's a comment from escort call girl milano I SWEAR to you, that's what it says!! Okay well fine, even call girls need to look at art, right? Then today I get a comment from some guy wanting me to buy his steroids..THAT'S IT! I'm done! I came back over to blogger and by some miracle don't ask me how because I really don't know I restored my blog!! I was clicking this and that and figuring I had nothing left to loose at that point and all of a sudden there it was!! The only thing I had lost was a few of the text colors!! WOOOO HOOO! I then spent hours and hours trying to redirect my website blog page to blogger, which from what I understand they strip the code, but that's working now too as far as I know :o)) So WOOO HOOO I think I've clawed my way out of hell!! It only took me three days LOL! So if any of you would like to take a look at the website and you have any suggestions I would love to hear them :o) I'm keeping my blogger blog :o) I just like it to much :o) www.michelelynchart.com   I'm going to try to catch up on all of your posts that I missed the last several days!
End of my rant!
xo Michele

Halloween Art

I know it's not Halloween, but I seem to be in that mood all the time! Meet Freddy, the pumpkin man. He got that name because I thought he looked like Freddy Krouger from Nightmare on Elm Street while I was sculpting him. lol. He has a found earring for his leaves, 15 jewel watch piece for his eye and an vintage enameled watch face on his tummy. He is available in my Etsy shop click here to visit my etsy shop

Time Keeper Grim Reaper ( I love that it rhyms LOL how corney is that?!) may be taken, I'm not sure yet. He is even more detailed than the Times Up Grim Reaper. Lots and lots of vintage watch parts on his robe and for his eye. I loved adding the zipper detail and will be adding more of that in the future :o) His scythe is removable and is a vintage skeleton key, vintage pocket watch piece and epoxy. He's sculpted over a wire and epoxy armature. His hands are epoxy, the rest is paper clay.

Hope everyone is enjoying the nice weather for a change, just seeing the sunshine makes my heart happy! Have a great weekend everyone! I plan on trying to update my website. Lord help me. If you see a computer flying past you, pay no attention, I just chucked it through the window ;o) xo Michele

Harvy and a surprise

Meet Harvy, an Easter Bunny, Soul Sucker style :o) He's 5" tall sitting. And here's the next surprise, he'll be available on Spooky Time Jingles! Yup, I have been accepted to join the fabulous group of artists there! I'll post links soon!

 Here's a new steampunk angel necklace that I just finished, I listed her on my etsy page. Have a great night everyone! xo Michele

Inspired Remnants, Curious Dreams Book

I recently purchased this art book from Kerin Gale, I haven't been buying many art books. If you are like me you have shelves and shelves full of books! And I have to say that anymore I don't see anything that really sparks my interest or anything that I think I will learn anything new from. BUT when I saw this book Inspired Remnants, Curious Dreams mixed-media projects in epoxy clay I was excited! I use Aves Apoxie Sculpt in my mixed media but I had never found anyone else who used it! I will say I was still wondering if I should spend my hard earned money on the book, but the photo on the cover really really drew me in. I loved it! So I ordered the book through Kerin on etsy, and she is delightful! I received my copy quickly in the mail and she even signed it with my name :o) I anxiously sat down and started skimming through the book and I have to say I LOVE the book :o) It has tons of eye candy, lots of good projects that gets your inspiration going, gallery photos from artists I admire (I was thrilled to see Liz McGrath in there! LOVE her!), step by step photos are clear, Kerin is a natural teacher and a fabulous artist. If you've been looking for a new art book and if you've never tried epoxy clay this is the book for you!! You can order it on Amazon or directly through Kerin Gale on etsy HERE . Let me know if any of you order the book I would love to hear what you think!

Also I need to give a couple of shout outs to some wonderful people on etsy that have included my dolls in their treasuries!

The first goes to FuzzHeadStudios who included not one of my dolls but two! Thank you!!

'HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!' by FuzzHeadStudio

Love is in the air! Share some wacky delight with the one you love!!FABULOUS art dolls!

READY TO SHIP Rose ... KatesStrangeli... $90.00	Miss. Grim Reaper zombieglamor $30.00
Arleen - Plush Mons... VagabondCafe $30.00	Steampunk Mechanica... GeahkBurchill $1200.00
Steampunk Mixed Med... michelelynchar... $75.00	The elephant Salomo... SandraArteagA $950.00
Warm and Fuzzy Wolf... coocoos $6.00	OOAK Collectible Em... RagalooRose $25.00
Steampunk Mixed Med... michelelynchar... $75.00	Handmade grungy mon... jennifoofoo $28.00
Miss Sidney the mon... ARTOFME $45.00	Drag Queen doll birdsfeltupdol... $350.00
OOAK Horror Gothic ... Panlora $70.00	Straight From Your ... mammamyst $20.00
Ghoul in a Cat Suit... joewhiteford $60.00	Grumpy (soft blue) Caracarmina $55.00

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The second shout out goes to Dollen! Thank you!!

'Dollen: Stunning Handmade Creatures' by KalliopeAmorphous

"Once upon a timeThrough a door just down the hallIn a dark, forgotten cornerOf the playroom was a doll.She was only made of cloth,A rather simple work of art,But you could see where someoneHad embroidered her a heart."-Unknown

Steampunk Souls Pap... michelelynchar... $75.00	Forlorn Dolls - Wan... forlorndolls $517.50
Porcelain doll from... shizzla $480.00	Twin doll CuriousBoudoir... $9500.00
Alice in Wonderland... ArchetypalThea... $225.00	The king. Bell doll... yalonetski $55.00
Ellen (Essie) Carpe... susiemcmahon $325.00	Serenity aliceswanndoll... $575.00
Afuowlakotalala - a... SandraArteagA $180.00	Gloria, a unique ar... tirelessartist $700.00
OOAK doll bjd Hujoo... heliantas $199.00	Apple Tree MahtabGrimshaw $325.00
ZOEE BUG--- Contemp... cartbeforetheh... $160.00	Granuaile's Dan... cmoyer $400.00
Justine-Art Doll Harem6 $150.00	Art Doll Bust PINK ... PearlMoonArts $50.00

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