More Pictures From Renninger's Steampunk Industrial Show

Teapot racing wasn't the only thing happening at Renninger's Steampunk Industrial Show this past weekend. Here are some other pictures:

Teapot Tuesday: Florida's Second Splendid Teapot Race and Featured Racer "Last Minute Lucy"

Florida's second Splendid Teapot Race was run this past Saturday (Jan. 23, 2016) at Renninger's Steampunk Industrial Show in Mount Dora. Despite strong winds and the kind of cold temperatures that Floridians are not accustomed to, we had a good turn out.



This week's featured teapot racer is "Last Minute Lucy":

The first racer to compete was actually the last racer to be built.

Jeff Hamilton had a teapot in his car when he stopped by the registration table Saturday morning. He also had a desire to race. What he didn't have was a remote controlled car, but that didn't stop him. He went to the store, bought a car, and built his racer at the picnic table right next to the registration table.










Thanks to Jeff and his family, the excuse, "I just didn't have time to build a teapot racer," is now invalid.





In fact, he did such a good job building and running his teapot racer, that he finished the course in 2 minutes, 58 seconds and received a total score of 73, which placed him in third place over-all.

Teapot Tuesday: Medals for the Next Splendid Teapot Race

We are only 4 days away from Splendid Teapot Racing Florida's next teapot race, which will be held at Renninger's Steampunk Industrial Show.


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I finished making the award medals for the race yesterday:

















Renate Goodwin, the drummer from the band The Cog is Dead, will be returning as one of our judges.



We will also have a new judge for this race, Mark Pettey of the band The Steampunk Stompers.



This will be Mark's judge's badge:



We are adding practice time to our schedule at this event. Several people at the October race said they would have liked to have had time to try the course before the actual race, so this time racers will be able to reserve a 15 minute practice time.



As with the previous race, registration will be onsite and registration forms will be available at the Splendid Teapot Racing Florida table, but if you would like to fill out a form at home and bring it with you, you may print out this form:




For more information about this race and teapot racing in general, please go to:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1650497891901054/

Teapot Tuesday: Jingle All The Way

This week's featured teapot racer is named "Jingle" and was driven by Pheona Novas at the Renninger's Steampunk Industrial Show on Oct. 17, 2015.



Practicing before the big race:

I Hope Everyone Had a Wonderful Christmas!

We had a very nice, relaxing holiday.

I did no cooking at all today, but instead put out a table full of snacks this morning, that people could graze on whenever they wanted. 

We unwrapped presents and then spent the rest of the day enjoying our gifts and started catching up on episodes of Dr. Who that we'd missed.





We finished our day by taking a walk around the neighborhood to look at the full moon. It was foggy, but the moon still shown through in that hazy way that they like to show in old horror movies. It was 80 degrees during the day and still very warm tonight. Blaze wore the headlamp he got in his Christmas stocking and discovered that if he set it on the red light setting, he could look at toads in the grass without scaring them away. 

Teapot Tuesday: Post-Apocalyptic Teapot Racer

I said I was going to take a holiday break from doing teapot racing related things and just focus on the Steampunk Christmas Facebook page and getting things ready for my family's Christmas, but there was this remote controlled car sitting in there, completely un-modified...

Blaze picked out this RC car as my husband's birthday gift, so that he could compete in our first teapot race, back in October.  When it was time for the race, nothing had been done to the car.

It took a long time for DH to admit that he was never going to do anything with the car and that I could have it, but once he did, I wanted to work on it. I had actually had ideas for it from the very beginning.

This is what it looked like fresh out of the box:





I removed all of the decals except for the ones that look like windows.

I painted over the dull gray car with metallic model paint and added brown paint "mud" splatters.

Here is what I have, so far:











I haven't come up with a good name for this racer, yet.