YOU DARE TO GAZE UPON MY TRUE FACE? FOR THIS YOU MUST DIE!

...ahem. Hurrah, my first real attempt at making actual goggles out of something other than cardboard! Well... a goggle, anyway. I wanted to make something for a steampunk pirate costume and ended up with this thing, which I have termed alternately the Gogglepatch and the Frankengoggle, given the stapley things over the nose and the fact that I couldn't find a long enough stretch of leather that didn't have stitches on it. So I've decided that it's created out of the tanned hide of some sort of unholy patchwork beast put together in defiance of the laws of God and nature.

I'm quite proud of myself. This morning, this was a broken belt, a mason jar lid rim, a broken CD jewel case, and some leather that used to be part of a couch. Now it's... this beastie. Still a work in progress, there's a lot of details I want to add, but I wanted to show you all what I've done so far. Created with a lot of help from this tutorial: [link]