benji's stuff

Here’s all the bones I’ve recovered from a squirrel that died during a big summer heatwave last year. I do also have the paws and tail, which I preserved as whole pieces in borax, but they aren’t included in these photos, just the bones. 

The body of the squirrel was buried, and it took me two rounds of digging it up and burying it again to get all of what I have here. I dug it up twice because only some bones were ready enough to come out the first time, while the rest still had a lot of tissue that still needed to decompose. 

After digging them up and letting them sit in water for a while to make sure all the tissue was eaten away at, I washed them with soap and water, then gave them a soak in hydrogen peroxide. 

Once all the cleaning was done, I gave them the same stain treatment that I give all my bones. I stained them with some hot water and instant coffee, because I like the “aged” look it it gives them. 

-homemade blanket nests and pillow forts, stacking books to create pillars so you can drape sheets on them

-sitting on ledges, watching from above

-little porcelain figurines, or just small collective items

-dusty antiques

-warm stew

-leaving the tv on and letting the static buzz

-using lanterns rather than fairy lights

-moth-eaten, frayed, and dirtied clothing, worn as if they're brand new

-pocket watches or lockets

-foggy and iced over lakes

-old museums

-small bones, animal teeth

-abandoned amusement parks

-tattered rugs that were once bright of color now faded and muddy

-big climbable tree roots

So basically I had to quit school because my mental health was incredibly bad

I am making t-shirts and prints and stuff instead…

->Consider getting some to help an artist survivre ? <-

I promise I am gonna flood Etsy with gremlincore and forestcore stuff

You get a free sticker with the t-shirts! (It’s the pfp of my store !)

If you can’t get anything please at least boost this as much as you can 👉🏼👈🏼