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Dark Academia Mystery Box is a one-of-a-kind collection of natural oddities, decorative trinkets, frameable art, and vintage objects for lovers of Oddities and Curiosities! My customizable, creatively curated mystery boxes make the perfect gift idea and is sure to add interest to your space and existing collection. ◾️ THE VIBE: • Witchy | Gothic | Moody • Mossy, Old Growth Forests • Old World Apothecary • Nature Aesthetic • A Collectors Treasure Chest • Natural Science Museum • Pretty, Eclectic Spaces • Vintage Botany Journals • Grandmothers Dark Forest Cottage • Trinkets found in Grandfathers desk ◾️ THE OBJECTS: • Antique Books & Ephemera • Real Forest Moss & Mushrooms • Animal bones, teeth, claws, fur • Framed/bottled natural oddities • Old Bottles & Jars • Metal objects • Corked Vials • Witchy oddities • Decor, trinkets, and jewelry for the dark academic • Preserved insects - butterflies, beetles, cicadas, locus, etc.. • Dried Botanicals • Rocks, Geodes, Crystals • Prints & Illustrations • Curious Ephemera • So much more! ▪️ PERSONALIZATION: • I take great pride in making this Mystery Box AN EXPERIENCE for my customers! Every box is unique and can be easily themed or personalized (making this an excellent gift!). ✅ 100% ETHICALLY SOURCED: •All specimens / natural artifacts included in my Mystery Boxes are proudly foraged by me and sourced locally from a handful of small family farms. You always know that any animal related items received in your collection were sourced in an earth friendly, humane, and ethically responsible manner. ALWAYS. 🔜 Check out my FOUND & FORAGED gift shop! https://maeleehomeinfusion.etsy.com
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I have been wanting to do a configurations box for quite a while now, but they are not easy to get here in Austria and shipping costs (even from Germany) are rather expensive due to the size. As we will get a brand new kitchen at the end of May, we have been browsing through our kitchen cupboards to get rid of everything too much (which was quite a lot to be honest). On this occasion I found a wooden box that once held three knives. I thought it to be the perfect size for a wall hanging configuration tray (or whatever one should call it). I made the compartments using glue, thick corrugated card and Tim Holtz tissue tape. Then I filled the compartments with Tim Holtz papers cut exactly to size and covering all five sides of each single "box". The outside was covered using a dictionary style washi tape. At that stage it looked way too clean and neat (even though I chose the TH papers for a rather grungy look) - so I gave the whole tray a rough treatment with Mr. Huey's color mists opaque white and dark calico and a lot of dapping and whiping, adding colour here, taking some off there. (I admit I really was afraid of spoiling hours of work with that step - but it worked out - even better than expected! The tray looked pretty grungy and timeworn by then. I created a wire hanging for the tray trying not to be too exact with bending and curling. There - my wall hanging tray was ready. At that stage I still did not know what to fill it with. Maybe a lot of TH goodness? Or do some heavy embellishing with tickets collected on our various holiday trips? Hm. I started to browse through my beach findings again and then the idea just hit my mind: I have been collecting fossils, stones, shells and nature finds in general since I can think and my son does the same now. In his room he has two showcases filled with self gathered "nature treasures" and "loaned" finds and more treasures from me and my husband. I decided to use some of them for my wall hanging. And voila! I very much enjoyed translating Ovid's "Metamorphosis" in school and have been loving the meaning of this word ever since (and use it quite often to be honest ;). So I enter SSSS's "quotable" challenge with this project. I also enter Country View Crafts' challenge "Pick and mix - anything goes" and also Simon Says Stamp challenge "anything goes". Most of the treasures were collected during our hiking trips, some of them were bought at the annual fossil show and some are very special "specials" :) For example the stone my son painted when he was maybe four or five years old, trying to make it look like an insect enclosed in amber: Or the beetle I collected in the lovely Wienerwald. Except the big trilobite all the fossils are "self-found"! We have a great spot near Vienna where one can find them quite easily. The shark tooth and the pearl are from a geological museum site a bit up the Danube, where a huge prehistoric mussel bed was discovered which proves that there once was ocean nearby our place! Kids can filter shark teeth and pearls in a huge sandpit there. The deserted cocoon in the upper right box is from a Death's Head Hawkmoth we found as a huge (really huge!) caterpillar when cutting our hedges. We took it home with us and prepared a container with some soil and leaves from the hedge and it dug itself in after two days of feeding. It spent the whole winter this way stored on our bedroom's window sill as this is the coldest room of our flat. We could see it at the very bottom of our container, twitching from time to time. One day in spring (when we had stopped to believe that it had survived) we had a really beautiful big hawkmoth sitting in the container. I learned that Death's Head Hawkmoths appear quite rarely at our regions and travel far distances from Africa to southern Europe. Just HAVE to show you the image! Isn't he beautiful (and big)? As we found the caterpillar in our garden on the very first day we entered it and this is such a wonderful thing to remember I hope it will be okay if I enter the Craft Room challenge "In Our Garden - Anything but a card" with this project. Back to the wall hanging: I stamped some words that came to my mind while watching the filled tray onto card that I had given an aged look in advance, cut them out and glued them to the frame. Done! Some more close-ups which I hope you will enjoy: I hope you will forgive me my picture- AND word-heavy post this time! Thank you very much for stopping by!!! Hugs, die amelie x
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"Manifest Curiosity". The collection of items and beings within this piece embody Curiosity on different levels or circumstances. Curiosity brings creativity, knowledge, achievements... it can feed relationships, cure boredom, and foster innovation. May we always be curious! Drawn by Meg Lemieur 11"x14" print size Printed on 120lb paper stock (a thicker paper) Sold unframed
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