Starry

This ol' thing is finally done... good riddance. 

Now I want to make a sculptural shadowbox version of it!

Collecting Dust

I was given the chance to grab some 150+ year old books from the central Brooklyn library and picked up some fantastic looking volumes of The Naturalist's Library, edited by Jardin. The pages were crumbling and dustmites were swarming for sure, but the original hand-colored plates of moths and butterflies were too good to pass up.

Reading about Victorian Natural History can really get you lost in the hype that made early sciences into merely a fashionable ghost of the past (less so a major discipline for the general public). It's one of those brief phases of obsession for me again. Additionally, The Heyday of Natural History (1984) is very thorough in depicting Victorian era life and a great read for the curious or bored.

I was hoping I could also find an old illustrated book on mineralogy too

...like these by James Sowerby ( 1817), but so far no luck...

(Exotic Mineralogy)

Rolling

K-k-k-katamari!! I wouldn't let myself get away with not felting something unoriginal, so here it is (lovely little Prince). Was a byotch to get the arms and legs on, but overall I'm surprised by how it turned out. My friend crocheted the little pink scarf that made everything ten times better. I was planning on making an assortment of cousins from the game only to be told that it wasn't a good idea to sell copyrighted characters... whateva!

First in a While

I never finish anything... I need to work on that. This is an exception to the rule of my life.