The 2handed sword I actually did about 2 months ago, but it was quick and done just to show someone what all 3d modeling was (in my limited capability).

I moved it from my laptop to my desktop and made some changes, mainly to the hilt which I rebuilt completely from scratch. Some minor scaling changes and voila! A decent prop for poser!

Then today, I was looking over the forums at DAZ3d and came across a thread discussing how to do the sand in an hourglass, so I said to myself, "Self, you can do that, do it!"

So, using the same technique I used with the glass of beer to put beer in it, I modeled up a quick hourglass and threw some sand in, UV mapped it, imported it into Carrara and played with the shaders a bit.

What you see here is the work of about 2 hours (give or take a few minutes).