need to make shirts of him. my boy.

my favorite genre of bird picture

it's one of those where you look at sinners as a film and it's fantastic. it's got a brilliant cast, a good storyline, a vibrant soundtrack, it's widely praised, and it should be sweeping the awards.

but then you realise it's a horror and horror films never do well in awards season. then you realise it's a heavily led black film and how racist the industry is. and then you need to sit back and sigh heavily.

remembering this museum on polynesian wood i visited in Ua Huka

i really like old species descriptions

the species in question

You ever see something innocuous, minding its own business on the clearance shelf at Michael’s and before you know it, it takes over your life for a few weeks?

So it was with this desktop greenhouse.

I took it home and after taking an appropriate time to “season” my idea in my mind (read: a month or two) I set to make my vision of a mini botanical garden a reality.

I started by removing the heavy glass panels and building a raised floor above the latch. I wanted to use the base as a foundation on the building.

I wrapped the foundation in plastic stone textured flooring (meant for Christmas villages) and built a pond at one end of the same. I then gave it a more realistic paint job and designed a rough layout for my plants and displays.

I also knew I wanted to make the ironwork significantly more intricate, but I wasn’t sure how just yet…

Up next - PLANTS! I went wild making all kinds of plants. Some were specific species and some were more conceptual.

I made several trees with polymer clay and moss, cacti out of beads and flocking, cattails out of raffia, hot glue and coffee grounds, and giant monstera leaves out of paper and wire.

This part should have taken me a long time, but it really came together fast. I loved finding ways to replicate natural shapes and patterns using bits of this and that.

I did make adjustments to my plans as I went like eliminating benches in favor of a simpler overall design.

Then I needed to fill my pond with water. For this I used resin. Lily pads were added to the top layer, and I wired in simple LED fairy lights. The batteries are kept in the box under the foundation.

In a weekend frenzy I added more plants, metal (paper) steps, new (plexi)glass windows, a roof, wrought-iron vines (paper again), doors that open, and a hose reel disguising the latch. Suddenly, a project I thought would take months was finished…

I love my desktop botanical garden. Right now it sits on a simple lazy Susan in my office. But I’d love to get it a proper display box to protect from dust.

Thank you for coming on this little journey with me. This piece packs a lot of joy into a tiny space. I always love building miniatures, and I’ll be doing more in the future I’m sure.

More cherry blossom study

[Imge description: a detailed drawing of a cherry blossom tree. In the foreground is a branch with flowers. More branches appear in the background, blurred, against a blue sky. The drawing has a white border. End description]

I met with a group of representatives from the New England Aquarium today and as I was giving them a tour of the facility I pointed out a slug on the ground and we all gathered around the slug taking pictures and excitedly talking about what a good slug it was

Adding the slug I saw a couple days ago!

my corner store guy is a 50 year old man who's my best friend in the world and recently he was like "you're too pretty to be single I have some nephews you should meet. very handsome!" and I was like "a niece might be more up my alley" and he just got more excited and said "ah even better! I was overselling my nephews but my nieces are very beautiful"

OP the tags!!

A coastal wolf takes a moment for free-spirited play in the Great Bear Rainforest

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fucking rollign around

So me and @kingabezka made a birthday gift for our friend @renem-art. When Thorntails first released, she instantly decided to make her pet gecko, Fernie, as one of them. We drew him laying on a lava lamp, which irl stands really close to his terrarium and gives him additional warmth when it's on.

Happy Birthday my Dear Friend <3

measure once cut also once, no prablem

concept for a vcarving project

no i get you this was perfectly centered when i wrote it

I have done the cross stitch

in honor of all the times I've made this mistake irl

ok this is crazy cus first of all

After the hell of the past two days, this reminded me of what America could and should be about. It’s a little pocket of hope when our administration is trying to extinguish diversity and community and basic human decency and replace them with fear and hate and division.

once you learn about pseudoscience you're forever doomed to get angry when people talk about like. love languages or stockholm syndrome. but forced to stay quiet lest your lose your mind trying to correct millions of people

BMI IS FAKE. BMI MEANS JACK SHIT. I AM GRABBING Y'ALL BY THE SHOULDERS THIS METRIC IS COMPLETELY USELESS AND IT WAS MADE BY AN EUGENICIST