Some works in progress

This one shouldn't still be a WIP. I want it to look like sunken treasure, & filled the spoon (a shaped 2 peseta piece) with Diamond Glaze. I let the layers dry & it was clear, but now it's clouded up. Do I have to melt it & start over, or what?

I'm not quite sure where this one's going, or whether the wire at the bottom will stay or change, but this guy has been waiting for work for at least a year, and I wanted to do something with words--even though I'm a word person, I don't usually use them in my art, but thought these fit, so am giving it a try.

This one's kind of a steam punk man in the moon, and this piece may be done except for deciding whether it should be a pin or pendant and how and on what to hang it--which is still a lot!
The strange little guy is bone I've colored with metallic wax and/or lumiere paints, the moon is colored a pearly purple with a dye pad, the other parts are pretty much as they came except of course that I've combined them. I'm liking this one a lot, just not sure how to present it yet.

This is a style of face bead I've often used on my doll pins. In this case I haven't decided whether she'll get a body or whether the whole thing will go in some other direction.
The gears can still go around, which I like a lot.
And I absolutely love all the guilloche engraving on this old pocket watch (it has jewels, too, but I don't think they show here).

I found a necklace I made probably 20 years ago at the bottom of a box of things waiting to be listed or reworked, and it included watchworks and had some message about time--apparently I was doing steam punk before the term was invented.  Interesting.

It's a new year, and a new moon

so I'm just checking in.
I've been working on some jewelry, which will appear on The Creative Block, http://www.siragwatkins.com ; collecting and sorting dolls and doll clothes (mailed the kid clothes before Xmas) for when we finally actually see the grands of doll-playing age (though our youngest daughter, about to be 26, did run off with one doll and some clothes)and also crocheting a few hats, sweaters, scarves, etc. for these dolls; gearing myself up to make some clothes and jewelry for my newest dolls, which are ball-jointed with something like 13 or 14 points of articulation--meaning that girl dolls are finally jointed in as many places as action figures, and much more fun to mess with!; cooking delicious but sometimes odd meals to help Seth get his appetite back so he can finish recovering from pneumonia; and trying to figure out what I'm going to do for 2 January swaps--one is the Queen of Hearts--thought I had it covered, but the pieces refused to work together, so it's back to the drawing board on that--and the other is anything Alice in Wonderland in paperdoll form, so I'm thinking a flamingo--I've always liked them, and a jabberwock seems a little to major to finish in a few weeks. What I wonder, and have for awhile, is why, with all the creativity in my doll groups, do all of them seem to come up with the same themes, or variations on them? I can manage these 2 swaps, but that's it for Lewis Carroll! Last month everyone was on about momijis, & of course Halloween before that, and stars & icicles (I did the peace doll, which was the only alternative) in between.
It's like the Firda thing--you'd think there'd never been another female artist!
But maybe that's dying down a bit now.
Anyway, I'm off to photograph some stuff for my stores and then have another run at these dolls. I hope everyone's year has started out well and will improve as it goes on.