Katia's Jewel Box

Art, botany, jewellery, photography, and Escaflowne

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Welcome to Katia’s Jewel Box!

Greetings Tumblr explorer,

My name is Katia Hougaard and I am an outsider artist, amateur jewellery designer / maker, amateur nature & fashion photographer and a plant biologist. I started this blog with the aim to share my work with a wider community on Tumblr, and I hope to learn from and be inspired by other artists on this site. This blog will be an “Aladdin’s Cave” of curiosity-stimulating artistic and natural treasures from my world. You can also find my content on Instagram @katia_plantscientist, @ornamentum_bykatia, @katia_artpage, and @slothskitchen.cuisine. 

This blog is rated “PG-13″. There will occasionally be mature themes and ideas discussed here, but nothing graphic or NSFW. Minors are welcome to look around but the target audience is open minded adults. 

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Mermay day 22! This is the start of last big thread for Mermay!

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Mermay day 23! Today’s prompt was “Medieval”! 

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Mermay day 24! Today’s prompt was “Lobster”! 

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Mermay day 25! Today’s prompt was “Starfish”! 

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Mermay day 26! Today’s prompt was “Orca”! 

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Mermay day 27! Today’s prompt was “Seahorse”! (lol more like MARE may!) 

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Mermay day 28! Today’s prompt was “Belly Dancer”!

[katiajewelbox]

[liberalsarecool]

Conservative men are addicted to sexism and rape culture.

[exxos-von-steamboldt]

[delicatefury]

I just googled this and… yes, it’s absolutely real.

And there are so many articles and videos and discussions. Like, the scientific community is buzzing about this.

So much research will have to be redone because the data was absolutely compromised, off by orders of magnitude, by using standard lab gloves.

The world is probably not horrifically contaminated by microplastics. Sterile laboratories, however, are contaminated by latex and nitrile gloves.

Thank God someone bothered to check.

[beardedmrbean]

>I just googled this and… yes, it’s absolutely real.

Sources beyond dude just trust me, for the skeptics.

Scientists shocked to find lab gloves may be skewing microplastics data

Scientists may have been unknowingly inflating microplastics pollution estimates, and the surprising source could be their own lab gloves. A

https://www.technologynetworks.com/applied-sciences/news/scientists-lab-gloves-may-be-causing-an-overestimation-of-microplastics-411138

Nitrile and latex gloves may cause overestimation of microplastics, U-M study reveals

Nitrile and latex gloves that scientists wear while they are measuring microplastics may lead to a potential overestimation of the tiny poll

Nitrile and latex gloves may cause overestimation of microplastics - Phys.org (it’s a pdf)

An Embarrassing Mistake May Have Skewed Microplastics Research All Along

Researchers discovered a standard piece of lab equipment has added thousands of microplastic ‘false positives’ per each square-millimeter un

Ordinary Lab Gloves May Have Skewed Microplastic Data

Ordinary Lab Gloves May Have Skewed Microplastic Data: That doesn’t mean microplastics aren’t a problem, though

That should be enough

[infestuous]

Wally Dion, Green Star Quilt, 2019 circuit boards, brass wire, copper tube

[chekhovs-raygun]

I SAW THIS IN THE PORTLAND ART MUSEUM! ITS HUGE!

it shimmers like no gemstones i've ever seen: green as malachite and emerald but shot through with opal, gold, copper. photographs can't do it justice because of how it shines, as well as the way the actual material elements have their own dimensions. you can lean in and study all the fine lines of the circuits or step back and admire how the rearranged whole forms new patterns. it's one of the most beautiful creations i've ever seen.

[glamourweaver]

Muppet Frankenstein, where the only human actor is the Monster, and he has no prosthetics. Everyone just reacts to the one human in their world as a horrific monster. The body parts before the animation are even visibly felt Muppet limbs, but the creature rises as a human.

[wildnickk]

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Probably true.

[anneskie94]

I am you. Dilandau x Celena

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Love this artist's "90's shojo" style!

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Draconian Wings

I’m ready to take to the sky of Gaea with these wings! This was a photo opportunity at the Bodleian Library in Oxford for their special exhibition on the connection between bird conservation and art. Highly recommended btw!

[animemangamenagerie]

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Me to the creepy men who try to sexually harass me / bully me about being a childfree spinster on Linked In.

[1five1two]

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Reminds me of all the celestial themed Whimsigothic and medieval inspired things from the 90s.

[cosmicportal]

[titusandronicusonice]

The secret of great wealth with no obvious source is some forgotten crime, forgotten because it was done neatly

Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot (1834-5) trans. A.J. Krailsheimer

[anneskie94]

Hitomi Kanzaki & Yukari Uchida

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So lovely to see more fan art of Yukari! She's so cute.

[vexheart]

[my-dailydreams]

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This was essentially the outcome of breaking off my engagement with my abusive ex fiancée. His mental, emotional, and financial abusive turned me completely off relationships, so I decided to dedicate my life to becoming my real self.