Marceline clock

So, I've been wanting to buy (at least one) clock for my house, but I wanted something a little kooky rather than just a boring tick tock. This has been going on for about 3 years now, and I suspected that nothing would live up to my expectations.

Then I saw Alantronics on Etsy. Go check out his shop, it is great. I was almost tempted to buy one, but I wasn't going to spend loads of money on shipping from America. So, in the end I did a blatant rip off of his Marceline clock*. Not having woodworking tools, I used cardboard, with a second layer of cardboard for her hair to make it 3D. It is nowhere near as good as the original, but I'm quite proud - the cardboard was some I had lying around at work, the paints I had, so the only cost was the clock mechanism, which I ripped out of a very cheap (£1.49) clock that I bought at the local nasty cheap shop. So,  in fact the most expensive part were the batteries!

Well, it will do me for a while anyway, and when I get bored I can throw it away guilt free, or make a new design.

* I think that is okay netiquette-wise as I am not selling it

The Corpus Christi chronophage

Lest you didn't think this morning's Dalek planter was enough, here's more!

This is the reason I have been making silly things with clay the past weeks. James has been on at me to make a coke can chronophage for months now and while I suspect the little locust chap might not be something that translates well into the medium of cans, I figured I could give it a shot with clay. Rather pleased actually.


I think I needed to make the body a bit longer, it looks like he is arching his back, rather than stretching ever forward to the next second. Meh, just don't give me a million pounds then.

The  clock isn't very round, but it is more golden than it looks here, more like the second picture.

Mouth open, gulping at time

Pretty see through wings, with segmented abdomen.