The Astonishing Adventures of Miss Klips

Design GalleryI'm the girl that does a little bit of everything. I attend the Ohio State University. I sculpt, make jewelry, paint, draw, design, carve, sing, study, explore, science (it's a verb now), fix things, and so on. I pride myself in being a Renaissance Woman (which is slightly like being a Renaissance Man but with breasts). The rest of my time is spent, now, trying to find small ways to save the world. I'm exceedingly careful about living in an environmentally friendly manner and am often that person who makes everyone around her feel slightly guilty.

I'm slightly addicted to puns. I know how to laugh at myself. Which is pretty helpful, as I tend to get myself in to slightly embarrassing situations. I love to go on adventures (no one has ever been permanently killed on one of these) and drag friends out to catch bugs while standing waist-deep in the Olentangy River or out to look under rocks for salamanders.

I love monsters in the broadest sense of the word. I study zoology (the study of monsters) and teach kids (monsters) on the side about the importance of reptile (monster) conservation with the help of my two snakes (monsters). I am a firm believer that the only way to combat disgust and fear is with knowledge (The only way to combat fear is to mind your monsters). Instead of kicking the insects (monsters), reptiles (monsters), downtrodden (monsters), ugly things (monsters), different (monsters) out because they are so monsterous we should stop minding them and instead put our minds to fostering understanding.

Jewelry Lines

vI am the creator of DNAEarrings and Metal Petals. I started with DNAEarrings, noticing that there wasn't any high-quality jewelry for female scientists/geeks. If Madam Felicity "no-such-thing-as-too-many-cats" McFloyd can proclaim her love of music and felines with her jewelry, why can't Emily "geneticist-extraordinaire" proclaim her love of DNA? Why is it that Mr. George "the-chemistry-professor" Olsen can easily find silk ties with molecules on them but his female counterpart has no classy similar option? At a certain point it really isn't appropriate to resort to pithy black tee-shirts with white lettering. Science isn't just a guy thing anymore so I thought it was about time I put my skills to the test and help the market catch up a little bit.

Metal Petals came about when I realized that I couldn't wear flowers in my hair/behind my ear without looking slightly off-kilter and decided to come up with a modern alternative. The real challenge with making them was finding a way to have the flowers face forwards when they're being worn instead of opening downwards where nobody will see them.

"Okay, Sara, you've talked it up enough... can we see some of these famous designs?" (I am working on this page. Sorry! Construction! Ack!)

Current Obsessions and Places I'm Found

Design Blog

ORLY?

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The monsters ate the rest of this page...

They must have been really hungry.

Lemon Drops and Koalas

See that shaved koala? Koalas do not like lemon drops. Lemon drops get stuck in koala fluff. Koalas prefer swedish fish. Eucalyptus flavor, please.