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Mike Timonin
@bookreadingguy.bsky.social
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He/Him Book Geek, History Prof, Social Justice Sage. dungeon/game master for hire, in person and online. dingo.dad.games@gmail.com https://startplaying.games/gm/dingo_dad_games
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bookreadingguy.bsky.social
Good morning! It's chilly and damp in Ithaca today, and a little foggy! A good day to visit #IthacaFarmersMarket and buy leather! If sales today are not better than last week, this will be our last Sunday for the year, so come out today if you want to see us!
A wooden booth full of leather goods including belts and bags and critters. More photos are at Frostnembercreations.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:07 PM
bookreadingguy.bsky.social
An X-Ray image of Invader Zim stuffed with human organs from the episode Dark Harvest.
November 6, 2025 at 5:33 PM
bookreadingguy.bsky.social
My lovely wife @ltimonin.bsky.social brought us election night pizza!
A partial pizza, cheese and nothing.
November 4, 2025 at 11:30 PM
bookreadingguy.bsky.social
Good morning #IthacaFarmersMarket! We're all set up, and ready for Halloween which was last week, but whatever. I'm in costume, AND we have pumpkin bags to go with the acorns.

It's supposed to be sunny but chilly today, so get your coffee and burritos!
A wooden booth full of leather goods including belts and bags and leather critters. More at https://www.frostnembercreations.com/
November 2, 2025 at 2:44 PM
bookreadingguy.bsky.social
Good morning #IthacaFarmersMarket! It's foggy and chilly today; you'll for sure want a coffee and a warm hand pie or a burrito. Also, if you want to test your costume before Friday, today's a good day to do that!
A wooden booth full of leather goods. Bags and belts on the right critters and costume bracers to the left. Better pictures at frostnembercreations.com
October 26, 2025 at 1:44 PM
bookreadingguy.bsky.social
Good morning #IthacaFarmersMarket! It's Sunday, so it's leather day! It's warm again today; come enjoy it while you can. We're right across from the Solaz Burrito booth - voted best restaurant in Ithaca in the @ithacatimes.bsky.social!
A wooden booth full of leather goods. They range in color from brown and black to red and purple, and in variety from belts to cute animals.
October 19, 2025 at 1:53 PM
bookreadingguy.bsky.social
Good morning #IthacaFarmersMarket. It's a cool, foggy morning, with rain in the forecast, so maybe a slow day at the market today. Or not; predicting consumer behavior has become impossible! Anyway, come have a coffee while looking at the inlet shrouded in fog, and then buy some leather!
A wooden booth full of leather goods in a variety of forms. Bags on the right side, leather animals on the left.
October 12, 2025 at 1:14 PM
bookreadingguy.bsky.social
Is your outfit missing something? Is it a belt? It's probably a belt...
Four collections of belts in black and brown. A small sign lists prices for flat and braided belts in 1 and 1.5 inches.
October 5, 2025 at 3:35 PM
bookreadingguy.bsky.social
Good morning! Sunday has happened again! That means it's leather time at #IthacaFarmersMarket. We've got black cats and spooky bats for October spooky season. Also, the return of the acorn belt pouches!
A panoramic photo of a leather shop in a wooden booth. Bags hang on racks. Hair pins hang on hooks. Belts and things to hang on belts are on display. Little leather critters are also on display.
October 5, 2025 at 1:12 PM
bookreadingguy.bsky.social
Good morning, Bluesky! It's an unseasonably warm day today at #IthacaFarmersMarket, but it's also the third day of #AppleFest, so the crowds are likely to be small. Frost and Ember has a booth downtown this weekend, but I'm here like normal, so unless you want to buy armor, come see me!
A wooden booth full of leather products. At the front, there are strings of cuff bracelets and hair barrettes. Towards the back are things you can put on your belt.
September 28, 2025 at 1:16 PM
bookreadingguy.bsky.social
Good morning, y'all! The booth was open last week, but I was away, so today I'm back at #IthacaFarmersMarket! Have I remembered how to set up the booth? Yes! Has backing the car into the booth gotten easier? No! Does this end of the market smell amazing? You bet! I'm here until 3; come say hi!
A wooden booth full of leather goods, including belts, bags, pouches, bracers, and leather critters. The products are in a range of colors. In the back is a chair.
September 21, 2025 at 1:39 PM
bookreadingguy.bsky.social
It has happened again, somehow it's Sunday! #IthacaFarmersMarket is open for business, and so is Frost and Ember. This week, we have restocked one (1) large acorn purse - but maybe more are on the way. There's only one bat left!
A wood framed booth full of leather. On the left side of the image, leather hair barrettes hang - they're just like the ones your mom had in the 1970s! On the right, bags and belts. To the back, a grey Toyota.
September 7, 2025 at 2:03 PM
bookreadingguy.bsky.social
Gooooood morning #IthacaFarmersMarket! In 20 minutes, you can satisfy all your senses (hearing and taste are tricky, but there's plenty to eat. Not the leather, though, unless you pay for it. You buy it, you can bite it.) Also, I have miracle braids to construct. Ugh. But, I need the hair pins.
A leather shop booth. In the front, leather hair pins and cuff bracelets hang. Towards the back, other items are displayed; belts, bags, pouches, fox tails, chokers. A handful of miracle braids, waiting to be turned into braided hair pins.
August 31, 2025 at 1:42 PM
bookreadingguy.bsky.social
Speaking of move in, we have Cornell Red Bears and Cortland Red Dragons and even Tompkins Cortland Community College Black Panthers. Sorry Ithaca Bombers and Syracuse Orange; your mascots are not critters!
A leather figurine of a red bear A leather figurine of a red dragon; it looks like it is reciting or preparing for a bow. A leather figurine of a black cat.
August 24, 2025 at 5:23 PM
bookreadingguy.bsky.social
Good morning #ithacaFarmersMarket! It's not quite 9:30, folks are still setting up, the coffee is perking and there's a sound of dishes and pans clanking from all around. Frost and Ember Creations is all set up, though, because I have to get here early in order to park...
A panoramic photo of a leather shop. It's a wooden booth with leather goods hanging on wicker screens around the edges. At the front of the booth are hanging displays of hair pins and cuff bracelets.
August 24, 2025 at 1:28 PM
bookreadingguy.bsky.social
I am reminded that it is Black Cat Appreciation Day, so here's a black cat to appreciate!
A black leather cat figurine foreground, other critters in the background
August 17, 2025 at 5:13 PM
bookreadingguy.bsky.social
Frostenembercreations.com for you out of town folks. And here's a video - that's Briar (the owner) behind the camera and yours truly in the chair.
August 17, 2025 at 2:10 PM
bookreadingguy.bsky.social
It's 10am on a Sunday, and #IthacaFarmersMarket is open! So is Frost and Ember Creations - come try on the Viking hat and play with the critters. The hamsters are officially rebranded as baby foxes, if that makes them more appealing to you.
A panoramic shot of a leather booth.
August 17, 2025 at 2:05 PM
bookreadingguy.bsky.social
I have a picture of The First that my eldest drew for me several years ago!
A six armed figure in an 8 pointed star; head and feet each get one point, and one for each hand. The head is yellow and featureless, the hands are, from the top left, dark blue, light blue, purple, green, a different blue, and red. The feet are pink. Along the bottom, a book, a lantern, a flask and an anvil.
August 13, 2025 at 12:16 AM
bookreadingguy.bsky.social
Good morning #IthacaFarmersMarket! It's Sunday, we'll be open in 20 minutes. Nothing new in our shop today, although there's a restock of the acorn pouches. We have a new neighbor this week; Thai-Issan food (which is Northern Thailand).
A panoramic photo of a leather shop.
August 10, 2025 at 1:43 PM
bookreadingguy.bsky.social
It's Sunday! #IthacaFarmersMarket opens at 10, and Frost and Ember is all set up and ready for business! This week, we've been invaded by hamsters!
A panoramic photo of a leather shop. Three leather hamsters, two brown, one green - the green one is sitting up.
August 3, 2025 at 1:26 PM
bookreadingguy.bsky.social
This green chaos is our veggie garden this year, and it's mostly tomatoes and squash amidst the milkweed and riverbank grapes. I'm concerned that all of the tomatoes are going to come ripe at the same time...
A chaotic mass of green plants; some yellow flowers are visible
July 28, 2025 at 2:38 PM
bookreadingguy.bsky.social
New this week (and mostly to bring folks into the shop!) this "Viking"* helmet.

*I know, Vikings didn't have horns on their helmets, but this looks so stinken cool!
A bearded man wearing a "Viking" helmet with cow horns. The helmet is red and black leather.
July 27, 2025 at 5:30 PM
bookreadingguy.bsky.social
Briar just dropped this off along with the belts I forgot to pack on Thursday. We don't usually bring a full set of armor to the Farmers' Market, but folks seem to like it!
A set of leather armor in green and brown. The brown is wood patterned, the green is braided belts and accents. It's a full suit, with breastplate, pauldrons, and bracers, plus a belt pouch.
July 27, 2025 at 5:27 PM
bookreadingguy.bsky.social
This is one of my wolves! Don't worry, his bark is worse than his bite. If you're not in Ithaca, you can order one at:

www.frostnembercreations.com
A small leather wolf, printed to look like carved wood.
July 27, 2025 at 4:12 PM