The Squid Dealer

Huge fan of like 100 different things. This blog revolves around my interests in making Things, learning how Things are made and my appreciation for the wonders of the natural world. I draw things, I take pictures of wildlife, I make puppets sometimes, and once a week I help restore a WWII battleship.

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Happy Pride

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Happy pride month!

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Life is all about doing things and starting again!

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Edworm is very curious about this whole tumblr-social-media-phone-camera thing

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🐌☕️ ☕️🐛

they’re on a coffee date

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They're taking over.

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i gotta make a puppet inspired by these guys.

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EDWORM!! :) New worm!

Edworm likes scurrying around on rocks and biting things :)

He is a fleece worm with a tubular shape and i think could be a fantastic starter puppet. This guys head shape is very standard and with ears and arms he could be a whole different critter.

The learning curve for making a worm is practically flat too and in a couple hours you go from having a sheet of foam and some fleece and end up with an entire Guy with its own personality and expression

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do you have a pattern for worm? he looks so fun to make!

Thank you! i am making one as i type this :) I have a pattern for a straight tube worm but not one yet for Beanly's bowling pin shape. When its finished i will absolutely post them so people can make more Beanly's!

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One more of Beanly! :)

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I sure am glad you guys like Beanly! I have a few other worm puppets in the making as i post this :)

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GUESS WHAT?

more pictures of Worm.

I love this guy so much I am already in the process of making another with different colors! Perhaps i will make enough to have a whole Worm colony!

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I seem to have accidentally stumbled onto Indeed For Creatures

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I would like to introduce you all to WORM! :) I made him yesterday and today and he is a very joyous fellow!

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You ever see something real mundane and try to capture the beauty of it only to realize it is more a feeling than something you can see?

That is 90% of the pictures i take. I have started a little photography account (has like two posts) that I am enjoying uploading photos into the drafts, but there are so many that I love and feel funny sharing because its just. a Rock. or perhaps a Tree. with no real vision to it. I don't know.

Like this one. It was a little cold out, it was foggy, and i was alone in this place and found big concrete chunks that had been overtaken with seaweeds and oysters and it was just so beautiful to me. Little crustaceans were climbing around between the rocks feeding on whatever it is they feed on, and there were oysters both alive and halved all over, biologically cemented to each other and to any given hard surface, and the seaweed had made a thick (slimy) carpet on top of all of it. I just think thats neat.

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I AM GOING TO GET TO HELP THE RESTORATION TEAM ON A WWII BATTLESHIP :)

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Horten 229

(being restored) 

National Air and Space Museum, Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center

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The Apollo 11 command module, which took the first moonwalkers to lunar orbit and back in 1969, is undergoing a painstaking restoration, in preparation for an unusual national tour later this year.

Until recently, the capsule sat in the main lobby of the National Air and Space Museum, where it had been since the museum opened in 1976. Conservator Lisa Young says that occasionally workers would open up its Plexiglas case to look it over or put in new lighting.

“But it never really went under a full examination or investigative analysis as to all of the certain materials on there, how stable they are,” says Young, who is working on the spacecraft now in a restoration hangar at the Smithsonian’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Va., outside of Washington, D.C.

“Our big job as conservators right now is to figure out, if we are going to put it back on display permanently, what could be happening to it in 50 years,” says Young, who wants to prevent future deterioration.

Moonwalkers’ Apollo 11 Capsule Gets Needed Primping For Its Star Turn On Earth

Photos: Shelby Knowles/NPR and NASA/Getty Images