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Dragon ring with kyocera opal. Hes so fancy!

Note that I did NOT carve that dragon, it was a pre made wax from my jewelry class studio. Alas, I am not yet that cool. New jewelry goal perhaps?

#diy #jewelry making #handmade jewelry #silver jewelry #opal jewelry

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I love it when you see animals just running around with their buddies for thr sheer joy of running with their friends.

YAK FROLICKING!!!

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Carnelian stamp seal featuring a kitty, Minoan, 1900-1600 BC

from The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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I did some metallic buttonhole samples a few years ago and have wanted to put them on a garment ever since, and am finally getting around to it!

These ones are made of little strips of metallic leather stitched down with fairly widely spaced buttonhole stitches, using doubled metallic thread. I'm using one thread for each side of the buttonhole, so it doesn't get the chance to wear out where the needle eye rubs against it, and doing a bar tack at each end as usual. Under that there's a cut and overcast hole (just like I did in my buttonhole tutorial) and I'll piece the lining in around them.

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Just got back from the Chicago Steampunk Expo- good time. Unfortunately, I managed to take exactly no photos ( too busy having a great time). So these are reenactment pics for yalls viewing pleasure

#steampunk #cosplay #costumes #handmade clothing #handmade cosplay

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Cup in the form of a shoe, German, late 16th century. Leather, with silver mounts.

Courtesy Alain Truong

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#art history #pompeii #roman art #greco roman art #classical art #classics #archeology

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Its fancy!

Back in the jewelry studio, making a hippie chick ring- moonstone and labradorite. Its gonna be fancy!

Also got these funny guy. They’re some kind of banded agate, I think. They look like wood, which is neat. They want to be something, Im sure of it. Just not sure what.

#handmade jewelry #silver jewelry #jewelry making #jewelry #labradorite

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2024 solar eclipse.

Got a near total partial eclipse at my location. My camera cant take pics of the sun itself, but because a camera is also a pinhole, you can see the eclipse in the lens flare, just like you can with a pinhole viewer.

#science #eclipse #solar system #solar eclipse #2024 solar eclipse

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Literally learning new knitting techniques is like learning spells

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gauge swatch this, gauge swatch that

you want so badly for everything to be neat and predictable. who said crafting was an orderly process? that the act of creation was anything but chaotic? how little do you trust in yourself, your skills, your ability to improvise? if you would not gleefully destroy the work of your hands, for any reason at all, do you even understand what it means to be a maker? if the idea of something turning out imperfect scares you so much, and you are unable to turn back mid-journey and start over, yes, do a gauge swatch. do 10. do 20. do as many as you need to calm your terror at the thought that life is inherently unpredictable.

if you understand why the god of creation must be one of death and destruction also, you will be able to free yourself.

embrace the chaos.

frog that sweater.

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An ancient Greek kylix showing a baby sitting in his pottychair and calling to his mother. ca. 480 BCE, the Royal Museums of Art and History, Brussels. And a 6th Century BCE potty found in the Athenian Agora. Agora Museum, Athens

More: https://thetravelbible.com/top-artifacts-from-ancient-greece/

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Now that Tumblr is letting me post things again, I bring you BEES!

#spring #bees #insects #cottagecore #pollinators #flowers

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Back in the jewelry studio, making a hippie chick ring- moonstone and labradorite. Its gonna be fancy!

Also got these funny guy. They’re some kind of banded agate, I think. They look like wood, which is neat. They want to be something, Im sure of it. Just not sure what.

#jewelry making #diy #jewlery #handmade jewelry

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Ever met someone who is not just A mediocre white man but THE Mediocre White Man? Its really facinating to observe the lack of self awareness and deep thought in real time in the wild.

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So was anyone gonna tell me the Greek navy still has a fully functional trireme?

Her name is Olympias! She was built in 1987 and can sail up to 17 knots (30 km) per hour!

Olympias weighs 47 tonnes, but is remarkably agile, able to make a 180 degree turn within one minute. Everything but the bracing ropes was constructed of the same materials as in ancient Greece. (They used steel instead of hemp rope for cost reasons.)

Experiments with Olympias have helped us understand the capabilities of warships from ancient Greek and Roman times. Triremes like her were built for speed, maneuverability, and aggressive ramming. (Her beak alone weighs 200 kg.) It appears that many of the seamanship feats described by Thucydides were indeed possible!

Olympias is now an exhibit at Naval Tradition Park in Palaio Faliro, Athens, Greece. She's usually dry docked these days, but I've found a couple videos of her at sea!

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Fiber arts is just Math in sheep's clothing