The Squid Dealer

Huge fan of like 100 different things -- right now im making worm puppets 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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Peacemaxxing

(reposted from my Instagram @thesquiddealer)

(big time inspiration from OddSockCreations)

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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