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quinbot.bsky.social
quinbot 🇨🇦
@quinbot.bsky.social
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Junk journal maker, steampunk enthusiast, inveterate collector, maker, crafter, procrastinator, introvert.
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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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#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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#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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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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#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
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My, that week flew by disturbingly quickly.

For this week's #WunderkammerWednesday we have another pairing -- shadow box containing the horn from a male springbok, and a core from the horn of a water buffalo. #CabinetofCuriosities
A black shadow box with the interior painted medium blue, containing the horn from a male springbok, and a core from the horn of a water buffalo. The springbok horn is long, thin and black, with multiple narrow ridges ringing it from the root to about two-thirds of the way to the tip. It is affixed diagonally to the rear of the box. The water buffalo horn core is short, fat and bone white, with many small holes and notches, like worm-eaten wood. It sits on its base at the bottom of the shadow box.
January 15, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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The second entry is a variety of metallic rose, discovered in a Himalayan meadow. The petals could be shaped and cut just like metal foil. No cause for the mutation was ever discovered; it was speculated the plant drew up metals from washout of near-by deposit.

#CabinetofCuriosities
A glass cloche containing a display of a pair of roses made of aluminum sheeting, nestled among some plant material.
January 8, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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A double entry for this week's #WunderkammerWednesday include two preserved specimens of extraordinary blooms discovered by Lord D_ at opposite ends of the world. First a species of wood-like rose, found thriving on a peak in the Andes. Alas, attempts to cultivate it failed.
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A glass cloche containing a group of roses with petals made from thin wood veneer or shavings.
January 8, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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A hand-made fabric coin purse in the shape of a whale shark, with a snap band closure for the mouth, that I made for my nephew for Xmas. The whale shark markings were made with a silver gel pen.

#craftsky #fiberarts #crafts
A hand-made fabric coin purse in the shape of a whale shark, with a snap band closure for the mouth, sits on a green cutting mat. The fabric is navy blue with appropriate whale shark markings made with a silver gel pen. A side view of a hand-made fabric coin purse in the shape of a whale shark, with a snap band closure for the mouth, sitting on a green cutting mat. The fabric is navy blue with appropriate whale shark markings made with a silver gel pen.
January 4, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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Possibly Amanita muscaria var. guessowii?

#FungiFriends #FungiFriday
Top view of a bright yellow mushroom surrounded by dried forest floor debris. The mushroom cap is almost flat, with damage on the left. The color ranges from reddish brown in the center shading to bright yellow and then to paler yellow at the edge. The cap is covered in pale tan warts. Side view of a bright yellow mushroom surrounded by dried forest floor debris. The mushroom cap is almost flat, with damage on the left. The color ranges from reddish brown in the center shading to bright yellow and then to paler yellow at the edge. The cap is covered in pale tan warts that look like flakes of uncooked oatmeal. The stalk is white with a ragged lower half.
January 3, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Happy Solstice (and first snow -- and it was a doozy). I look forward to ignoring the snow in my driveway for the remainder of the day. More is expected.
A photo of the night's accumulated snowfall, viewed from my front door looking to the side yard. Only vertical surfaces are free of snow and show colour. The rest is blanketed in several inches of fresh snow. A photo of the night's accumulation of snow on my neighbour's yard, viewed from a back window. A large tree, bare of leaves and blanketed in snow, dominates the left side of the photo. In the bottom right corner is a small beige shed. In the background are more snow-covered, smaller trees and a small, deep blue house. The rest is a snowy blanket, covering a car and a collection of random objects (including a wood chipper, cement mixer, tires, and garden ornaments).
December 21, 2024 at 12:16 PM