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quinbot 🇨🇦
@quinbot.bsky.social
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Junk journal maker, steampunk enthusiast, inveterate collector, maker, crafter, procrastinator, introvert.
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Christmas ornaments I made last year, also upcycled from toilet paper rolls.

#PaperCrafts #ChristmasCrafts
quinbot.bsky.social quinbot 🇨🇦 @quinbot.bsky.social · Dec 11
Long detailed thread of instructions for making this tree ornament from toilet paper rolls failed to upload so here is the abbreviated version. Self-explanatory really but feel free to ask if you have questions if you have them. Also check out the ALT text.

#papercraft #xmasornament
Two completed Christmas tree ornaments are displayed next to a scattered piled of candies and a crocheted snowflake. The ornaments are made from brown toilet paper rolls, embossed with a brick pattern, and coloured red to emphasize the brick design. The top edges of the rolls are coated in a white paste to resemble a ridge of snow. The bottom edges are covered in a scalloped strip of black paper to evoke roof shingles. A loop of narrow satin ribbon is attached at the top of the roll as a hanger. Inside the top opening of the rolls are tiny Santa sacks made from red velvet, tied with narrow ribbon and adorned with a small brass jingle bell. A damp, flattened toilet paper roll sits on top of a blue stencil with a brick design. Both are sitting on a cutting plate positioned on a small green crafter's embossing/die cutting machine. The toilet paper roll has been embossed with the brick design from the stencil. The orientation of the embossed design is incorrect; it should be in landscape mode, and gets corrected by the maker before continuing. Three red-inked, embossed toilet paper rolls are piled between a small container of eyelets and a small bin labelled "hand-held hole punches". The top-most embossed roll has two eyelets placed near its top edge. Each eyelet is holding in place the end of a loop of narrow, blue-green satin ribbon. The embossed roll underneath it has holes punched in preparation for the eyelets. The bottom embossed roll has black marks to indicate where eyelets will be added. Four red-inked, embossed toilet paper rolls with their bases stapled flat are displayed. All have a narrow satin ribbin loop up top, a ridge of white Snow-Tex added along the top edge to simulate piled snow, and a strip of scalloped black paper along the bottom edge to cover the staples and simulate roof shingles. The Snow-Tex has also been coated with clear glitter nail polish to help strengthen it and make it sparkle.
November 22, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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Been making small Christmas tree ornaments using recycled materials (book pages and toilet roll cardboard).

#PaperCrafts #ChristmasCrafts
A scattering of hand-made Christmas tree decorations on a green cutting mat. To the left are two sizes of Christmas stockings cut from toilet roll cardboard and covered in book pages, then stamped with red Christmas motifs. To the right are clusters of scrolls made with book pages, then wired together with random Christmassy decorations. A pair of white wooden snowflakes are at the bottom right.
November 22, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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A snapshot of one shelf in my den of curiosities, featuring a collection of amber glassware, clear glassware, a set of shark jaws, a leather-covered bottle, a lamp made of a white crystal, a candle holder, and a set of clam shells.

#WunderkammerWednesday #CabinetOfCuriosities
November 12, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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Some mushroom finds during September.

#FungiFriends #FungiFriday
November 7, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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Have a gargoyle. Not enough non-cartoony gargoyles on Bluesky.
weird-wiltshire.bsky.social Emma Weird Wiltshire @weird-wiltshire.bsky.social · Sep 22
Happy Monday! Have a gargoyle from Salisbury Cathedral!

#gargoyle #grotesque
September 22, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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#FungiFriday #FungiFriends

Two views of a fairy ring encountered in 2024. I keep checking but so far it hasn't reappeared.
September 12, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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#FungiFriday #FungiFriends

It's been really dry here lately so not much fungal growth to be found.
A top-down view of a white puffball mushroom with tan-coloured feathering, sitting in a dried out area of a lawn. A side view of a white puffball mushroom with tan-coloured feathering, sitting in a dried out area of a lawn. View of a pair of puffball fungi erupting from a felled birch tree. View of a pair of puffball fungi erupting from a felled birch tree.
September 5, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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A bright orange slice. #fungifriends
A top-down view of a deep orange flat-capped mushroom with some of the right edge missing. The mushroom grows on the boundary between a bright green mossy area on the right, and a brown field of dry decaying leaf matter on the left. A bottom-up view of a deep orange flat-capped mushroom, showing off the gills. The mushroom grows on the edge of a bright green mossy area. The background is a blur of green trees and blue sky.
August 28, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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Deep beneath your feet, two enormous blobs (technically known as BLOBs) sit at the top of Earth's core. They may be remnants of a protoplanet that collided with ours 4.5 billion years ago.

New evidence suggests they're still linked to volcanic eruptions today. 🧪🔭

eos.org/articles/bla...
In this model, mantle plumes (yellow) rise from big lower-mantle basal structures (nicknamed BLOBs, in red). Mantle plumes influence volcanic activity at the surface, and the current position of the continents is visible in gray. Credit: Annalise Cucchiaro
August 22, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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#FungiFriday #FungiFriends

A few views of a tree stump well encrusted with bracket fungi. Sorry about the terrible pics.
A tree stump encrusted with bracket fungi. Another view of a tree stump encrusted with bracket fungi. Final view of a tree stump encrusted with bracket fungi.
August 22, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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#WunderkammerWednesday

A #CabinetOfCuriosities doesn't need to fill a room to be interesting. Seen here is a cloche filled with marine items - lobster claw, various shells and seaweeds, a sand dollar, a sea urchin shell, a stone with barnacles, and a mermaid's purse.
Close-up of a glass cloche on a cork base filled with marine items - lobster claw, various shells and seaweeds, a sand dollar, a sea urchin shell, a stone with barnacles, and a mermaid's purse. Refracted sunlight on the glass globe is causing a banding effect on the glass. Close-up of a glass cloche on a cork base filled with marine items - lobster claw, various shells and seaweeds, a sand dollar, a sea urchin shell, and a crab carapace. Close-up of a glass cloche on a cork base filled with marine items - lobster claw, various shells and seaweeds, a sand dollar, a sea urchin shell, a stone with barnacles, and a mermaid's purse. Close-up of a glass cloche on a cork base filled with marine items - lobster claw, various shells and seaweeds, a sand dollar, a sea urchin shell, a stone with barnacles, and a mermaid's purse.
July 23, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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From October 2024.
#FungiFriday #FungiFriends
A pair of hands reaching for a giant puff-ball mushroom nestled among some greenery behind a large stone.
May 23, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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#FungiFriday #FungiFriends
Top-down view of a shelf fungus attached to a fallen branch on the forest floor. Bottom view of a shelf fungus attached to a fallen branch on the forest floor, showing off the gills.
May 16, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Today's #WunderkammerWednesday delves into the macabre practice of animal taxidermy, with this mounted specimen of the Goliath birdeater tarantula, late of the Dominican Republic. This is a smaller specimen with the body at 6cm long, and legs diagonally 15cm tip to tip.
#CabinetofCuriosities
A mounted specimen of the Goliath birdeater tarantula. The frame is green and the text indicates the specimen originated from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
April 30, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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A bit of whimsy from the old #CabinetofCuriosities for this week's #WunderkammerWednesday -- look away those of you with delicate constitutions!

Here is presented a vial reportedly containing dried merman sperm, method of collection unknown but no doubt a mind-boggling feat.
A photo showing a small glass jar with a ground-glass stopper shaped like a dog's head. The jar is half-full of white corkscrew-like fibres.
April 9, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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I don't know what it is but it looks tasty.

#FungiFriday #FungiFriends
Some yellow shelf fungi nestled inside the bole of a tree. Some yellow shelf fungi nestled inside the bole of a tree. They look like chocolate chip cookies without the chocolate chips.
March 21, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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Found another account sharing postcards from the past. 👻
March 13, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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This week's #WunderkammerWednesday is a lovely example of pysanky done on an ostrich egg, and mounted in a plain wooden box frame for protection. A grand addition to any #CabinetofCuriosities.
Photo of a beautiful example of pysanky done on an ostrich egg and mounted in a plain wooden frame. The intricate design's colour palette consists of red, orange and yellow, with white guidelines.
March 5, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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Not a fungus this time but fungi-adjacent. Ghost Pipe is a parasitic plant that survives by sapping nutrition through the fungal web of mycorrhizae around tree roots. So... #FungiEnemies? Ghost Pipe is white because it doesn't use photosynthesis to grow.

#FungiFriends #FungiFriday
A wide shot of forest litter with a tiny bunch of white Ghost Pipe plants in the center. A close-up image of a cluster of white Ghost Pipe plants nestled amongst rocks, leaves and moss.
February 28, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Two trinket shelves for this week's #WunderkammerWednesday showing smaller collections of random objects within the #CabinetofCuriosities itself.
February 26, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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From my #CabinetofCuriosities for this week's #WunderkammerWednesday is this antique pocket microscope, also known as a field microscope as they were intended to be used in actual fields. Purchased from a local woman who found it in their attic. Likely dates from the 1850s.
February 12, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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Speaking of wire, here are a few pieces of wire #bobbinlace that I made years ago when it was all the rage (in bobbin lace circles). The oval piece is actually two parts and was intended as part of a larger doily. I never made any of the other rounds.

#wireart
A photo of three pieces of bobbin lace all made from brass wire. The top piece is a Christmas ornament featuring a green-coloured holly leaf inside a brass frame. The middle piece is a strip of edging, with a scalloped design one side and flat edge along the other. Edging lace is intended to be attached along its flat edge to another piece of lace or clothing or bedding. The third piece is actually two motifs joined together, a circle motif surrounded by a larger oval motif.
February 11, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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I think wire wrapping is #1 on my list of hobbies I'd like to try if I ever wanted to start yet another hobby that I don't have time or space for.
February 11, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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You've probably heard that "we are stardust," but this graphic breaks it down and tells you what kind of stars your dust came from--and which elements didn't come from stars at all. 🧪

svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13873/
This periodic table depicts the primary source on Earth for each element: from the Big Bang, massive stars, white-dwarf supernovae, merging neutron stars, low-mass stars, or other processes. In cases where two sources contribute fairly equally, both appear.
January 28, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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#FungiFriday #FungiFriends #FungiFebruary

This one, with it's heart shape, seemed appropriate for February.
Top view photo of a soft-looking peachy-coloured mushroom near a downed branch and bits of ferns. The mushroom cap is shaped like an upside-down heart, or a very puffy kidney. Side view photo of a soft-looking peachy-coloured mushroom between two downed branches and some bits of ferns. The mushroom cap looks like a soft, puffy bun, with a slight rose tint and a small notch taken out of the front edge. The underside is cream coloured. The stalk is straight and slightly raggedy near the bottom.
February 7, 2025 at 4:43 AM