Welcome to Thursday Coffee Hour. This is an open topic so help yourself to the goodies and sit a spell and let us know what is new with you. As an artist since childhood one of the hardest questions to answer is how I come up with ideas for my artwork or jewelry. I have been on a new jewelry making spree and thought maybe I could try and explain how I go about the creative process with one of the new necklaces. The necklace is called Sleeping Fox.

Welcome to Sunday Brunch. This is an open topic thread so help yourself to the goodies and let us know what is new with you. For those of us old enough to remember the television show The Wild, Wild West that is now what we call Steampunk. It has been said that Steampunk mainly takes place in an alternate Earth around the Victorian era where steam driven devices are the norm. Randall Garret's Lord Darcy books are a prime example of Steampunk literature.