Project update Steampunk art brought back happy memory

The last couple of days I've been busy searching the Internet for supplies that i need. Finally I found some decent priced old clock work innards and they should be in the mail and on their way to my anxiously waiting artsy side.

I found a few other useful things to use on the Internet as well, but the shipping was a little nuts so I had to pass. I figure that's okay. That's what my mom and my boyfriends mom are good at. They love to rummage sale and have more spare time to do it. My mom has already accepted the challenge and the boyfriend is going to ask his mom next time he talks to her.

Today I went to one of the local craft stores and found the perfect assortment of paper stock on sale for $0.16/ per sheet and one stock book on clearance for $5.
They also had some pretty awesome rub on decals of old spectacles, opera glasses, keys, and bicycles.
Those where only $1.50 for a sheet.
The big steal was the shadow boxes. I bought 4 of them. Usually they run $9.99-$12.99, but they were clearance for $4 a piece.

When I got home and my boyfriend saw what I found he wanted to have me go back there with him and show him where the stuff was.
We ended up with more cheap paper stock, a Wright Brother's airplane model, some stamp inks, and a really cool hot-air balloon stamp. The most expensive was the plane  model at $15. The inks and stamp were $1 each.

So so far we have:

Skeletons
paper stock and card stock
shadow boxes
chess pieces
decals
stamps
paints
clock innards on the way

We still need:

more shadow boxes
really tiny miniature people
old looking keys
wooden bingo chips
typewriter keys
Dominos
wings
steam train miniatures

Tonight I took out the chess pieces and gave them their first layer of paint.
While I was doing this I had a really nice memory.

When I was little my grandma tried to help me with my artistic side. She use to like to paint crafts
and she collected plaster objects and rocks that she let me paint with her brushes and paints while she worked on her crafts.
The smell of paint and the sound of a paint brush whisking made me remember.

While I worked on painting the chess pieces I imagined how much fun my grandma would have had working on a project like this with me if she were alive and able to do so.
If you are wondering...... Yes, I cried.