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Why do my interests in canning, couponing, and homesteading overlap so often with blogs with titles like ‘The Obedient Housewife’? 

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candle homes by Optometry World

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fish knives by VikingsValhalla

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🎣THE FISH MARKET IS OPEN🎣

Today's catch is Atlantic Salmon!

Handmade with 100% wool felt, only 3 are available and will be made to order!

Bisonwares.com

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Here comes fall!

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Old book covers

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Eeveelution Desserts

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A variety of chairs; all credit goes to chairmaker, muddycap.

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1991 Anglo American Eyewear Frog Sunglasses (via: Pinterest/archive.org)

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nature artwork by Andy Goldsworthy

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Xena Warrior Princess 6x18 When Fates Collide

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Wally Dion, born 1976, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

Fabric Star Quilts.

Wally (Walter) Dion is a Canadian artist of Saulteaux ancestry living and working in Upstate New York. Working in a number of media including painting, drawing and sculpture.

Wally explains:

"The first fabric star quilt was made as part of a 2022 residency at Wanuskewin Park. It was my way of reflecting upon prairie tall grass and the reintroduction of bison into the Great Plaines. I wanted to make several transparent quilts and superimpose them; one in front another... a quilt for the microbiome, another for the bison, their manure & hooves, another for the summer fires that scorch the ground and a final quilt for the sweetgrass braid.

I was considering how all of these things worked together for thousands of years to create what is known as the 'prairie tall grass ecosystem'. A vast and fertile expanse of land stretching from the foothills of Alberta to the banks of the Mississippi. I wanted to highlight the invisibility of systems when everything is working well, as it should be.

I started with the green quilt because it is the colour of the sweet grass braid that is exchanged in ceremony and relationship building. I considered the nature and tradition of quilting; impoverished craftspeople using tiny scraps of fabric. I considered the act of offering fabric and adherence to tradition. I thought of a thousand tiny prayers and how that might look; invisible acts of respect and adherence to protocols spanning decades. My thoughts travelled across the land, imagining the trees and rocks collecting these prayers like a bush of cloth, or an etched boulders."

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Kinetic table can draw any pattern on the sand you want.

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New favourite object category: Matchsafes! 

Most acquired in 1978, Gift of Stephen W. Brener and Carol B. Brener

From the Cooper Hewitt Museum, Department of Product Design and Decorative Arts