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The Orillia Times' Roberta Bell interviewed Catie Raymond, during the lead up to the annual All Things Steampunk, and got a lesson in the steampunk movement. Here's what Bell had to say... Each time she takes apart an old clock to find parts she can repurpose in her jewelry making, Catie Raymond is blown away by the intricacy of its design. “It freaks me out that they actually made these kinds of things so long ago,” laughed the Coldwater-based salvage artist, who has made a career out of turning the old into new again. Catie Raymond designs original one-of-a-kind jewelry; photo by Roberta Bell, for the Orillia Packet and Times Raymond, with her collection of anachronistic work, will be the featured...

Andrea Gordon from the Toronto Star sat down with Catie Raymond last fall and had this to say...  The ‘junk’ jeweler Catie Raymond has always had an eye for beauty in the most unlikely places. Catie Raymond designs original steampunk jewelry; Photo by Cody Storm, for The Toronto Star She spots it in the innards of old watches, bits from a plumber’s toolbox and old copper wire. Then she transforms the junk into jewelry. “I was always an old soul,” she says. “I rescue stuff and use up some of the junk that would end up in the dump.” Raymond, 52, fashions bracelets from copper plumbing chains, ribbon and old charms. At her studio in Coldwater near Orillia, she also...