Hodgepodge

Todays blog is a hodgepodge of different things; things I found, made and inspire me.

Collection of things, waiting to get put into work. From left to right: tail feathers from a North Holland Blue rooster, earrings (which are finished, but inspiring), beads with seeds, feather shaped pendants.

A dead bumblebee, found in the garden. I put it on this piece of wood, with pins around his body, so it will dry with his paws and antennas in the right position.

A Pachnoda marginata peregrina, which I found in an old terrarium where they used to live in. It was completely dried, but unfortunately it missed it's paws and antennas. It's still a wonderful creature, though.

Last week, I worked on several new power stones (also see my previous post about power stones). 

This one has a mole in the front, which stands for contact with Earths energy, knowledge about herbs, roots, seeds and rivers and love expressed in nature. Brown is obviously the color of earth and contains beneficial energy. The symbol on the other side is the basic element of earth.

This stone has a spider with its web in the front. The spider stands for wisdom, creativity and inspiration. The web is added, because spiders are master weavers. Yellow stands for wisdom and creativity, purple for spirituality. The symbol on the other side is from the American Natives and means wisdom.

Last but not least, a power stone with the bee. The bee stands for prosperity, reincarnation, communication with spirits and concentration. The blue color stands for truth, sincerity, spirituality and calmness. The bee also connects with the goddess Diana. The symbol on the other side of the stone is from the American Natives, and means happiness.

All the little things

'Enjoy the small things in life,' who hasn't heard -or read- about that sentence? Well, I take it very literally.

Hodgepodge. The feather is from a brown hen.

The snail family.

An ammonite fossil on the left, a Great Ramshorn (Planorbarius corneus) on the right

 Say hello to my little friend! This little crab in clear plastic has the same size as my fingertip.

Feathers

Today I would like to show you a part of my feather collection. Last month, a  lot of birds were moulting, so when I went outside, I could gather a lot of feathers in the parks and fields in my neighborhood.

This picture shows two tailfeathers of pheasants (the ones in the bottles). The biggest one is from a male Chinese Pheasant (Chrysolophus pictus). The smaller one is from a female Common Pheasant (Phasianus colchius). The beautiful blue-gray feather in the front is from a Gray Heron (Ardea cinerea).

There are several feathers in the pharmacy jar. I keep the smaller ones in this jar, so they stay clean and free of dust. The feathers you can see in the jar on this picture are from a female Common Kestrel (Falco tinnunculus) and Wild Ducks (Anas platyrhynchos). The feather on the front is from a Greylag Goose (Anser anser). As you can see, I turned it into a quill.

This is just a small part of all the feathers in my collection, but I thought it would be nice to show some to you.