Cakes for Ian's 20th Birthday

His birthday is June 20th.

Ian's 20th birthday gifts.

It was fun making these. The boxes hold in order from top to bottom: Buttons, A reeses cup, two pocketwatches, and a leatherbound book(made by me).

I own a gourd lamp now.

It hangs above my bed and makes shadows.

Me mounting my first spider. Found it while camping in Colorado at the Medieval fair. Serena and I were scared. 

I do a lot of taxidermy. But this is my first specimen with an exoskeleton. 

The spider was alive when we found it on our rug, it had a giant egg sac. It died in a jam jar in the trunk. the sac was squished by David.

I have never done anything this creepy, and I do some creepy stuff. I taxidermy birds and make top hats for them. But this was just…spidery. I stuffed the abdomen and soaked her in alcohol and formalin. I….I….

I need to take a moment.