#mycollection

At the top we have my antler crown with my hand painted styrofoam head, along with a doe skull and a couple antlers (the small one I tried making a little dreamcatcher with). The antlers and skull are special because they were all found on the same day during an epic bone hunting adventure with my dad! I was an excitable young vulture and documented the emotional journey on this blog (over 12 years ago!), so if you want to relive this experience click on the numbers below in order:

[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]

And as fate would have it I ended up mounting that cow skull above my cabinet on the right side, so she's with her friends too!

In the center is my opossum collection, I don't know how I ended up a little obsessed with opossums but they have a special place in my heart <3 The opossum on top of the jar is Voldy with his skeleton, technically the first bones I ever found although I wasn't collecting at that point. Not too long after I did start collecting and my dad brought him home!

Don't mind my baby opo skeleton, he's in need of a few repairs (and I can't believe I lost his tail!!) but he'll be back in his full glory soon!

Finally we have this special little display with a coyote skull and deer skull - I collected these two while riding on horseback through cattle pastures in New Mexico on a once-in-a-lifetime cattle drive experience! To go along with the skulls I have the custom water bottle from the cattle ranch (and a second bottle from another cattle driving experience!) and a handmade barbed wire cross, gifted by an old cowboy on the drive with us. I'm hoping to get some pictures printed from the drive to add to this display!