#(or beads in this case)

[kodasea]

Reading yesterday's news

[nolovelikeyourown]

Her name is jelly bean!!!!

[bijoumikhawal]

The Middle Eastern Jewel beetle, Steraspis squamosa

This beetle is a member of Buprestidae, the wood boring jewel beetles. It's range includes Egypt, Sudan, Senegal, the Levant, the Maghreb, and Turkey.

This species of beetle bores holes into the tamarisk tree for it's larvae, who emerge as adult beetles. Since some versions of Osiris's death mention that Set imprisoned his body in a tamarisk tree, the beetles were like identified with Osiris. I think the green color probably added to that association as well. They show up as jewelry, and notably as decorations on the bed canopy of Queen Hetepheres, who was the owner of those lovely silver bangles with butterflies that you may have seen. They appear on a few objects from Tutankhamun's tomb as well.

Versions of the beetle sometimes were made of gold and used in jewelry, such as the bottom row of beads on this broadcollar. I'd actually seen this one before, and assumed these beads were lotus buds.

Amulets carved of stone such as calcite, or molded from faience, have also been found, as have mummified jewel beetles. Their elytra (wing casings) have also been found crushed up and used as a pigment.

Also here's here's necklace made by the Karo tribe of the Omo Valley in Ethiopia using the wing casings of Steraspis speciosa. A similar necklace of Steraspis squamosa casings was found in a pre-dynastic tomb in Armant.

Source list:

The Symbolism and Significance of the Butterfly in Ancient Egypt by Dawn Haynes

Beetle God's of Egypt by Gene Kritsky

Insect Mythology by Gene Kritsky

[poketcg-art]

Do you think you’ll add Dragon to the type perler bead magnets in the future? /genq.

I want to go back to that project because those Type magnets are OLD, but I also have no access to my beads at the moment so I won't be making anything new for a while 😭

[cheesecrackery]

Limited Life Scar in that one shirt i saw on tiktok

and also my process for it jus in case i forget how to draw again LMAO

[snoelledarts]

My coworker came in w a new hairstyle and when I tell you I RAN to my tablet to recreate it for little Annabeth bc it is PERFECT for her— ik percy sees old photos of her at camp like this and almost cries bc of how cute she is.

[raddest-laddest]

*sees a literal piece of trash* ooh better hold onto this in case i need it

[bucephaly]

My bf wants me to make a clay bead necklace for his mom and tbh it's a lil nervewracking cuz she's Very concerned with appearances and im pretty convinced that she would Never wear this haha

[funstyle]

FOUND A PIC OF MY PHONE CASE FROM 2013 LETS GO TUMBLRINAS LETS GOOOO

[ace-up-your-sleeve]

new kandi patterns be upon ye!!!!

fnaf themed switch lite case!!

the above pattern is 27 x 18 brick stitch, the multi stitch equivalent is roughly 36 x 13

pattern can be found under 'designs' on my profile! :3

i dont have a switch yet but im hoping to buy one with Christmas money! im also gonna sew a soft case as a liner, so the beads dont fuck it up somehow

[utopiabeadz]

My Melody kandi cuff!

this took so long and we ran out of beads at one point and had to order more, but it's done now!! super proud of this, I think it might be our biggest cuff yet :3

[droodlebug]

if my ssi gets approved after so long the first thing im doing is getting a proper wheelchair sized for me and the second thing is getting a surface pro or smth so i can draw while laying down bc the days where i am able to do anything sitting up for long are not many these days. and i Want to draw

[9w1ft]

i mean the snake motif is, surely it’s too obvious,

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[dragon-spaghetti]

"Maybe if we hope enough, the universe will take pity" is sure a thing I just said in reference to clinging to catholic rituals as a familiar comfort despite not holding the beliefs

[stellewriites]

Can you talk about some of the details on the moodboards? Like the paper plane or the doves? 💕

you don’t have to ask me twice! i’m assuming you mean these moodboards - i’m gonna talk about one item each if that’s ok. sorry in advance for the low quality screenshots

simon: nails

i think i’ve spoken before about how i think si would have a cluster of nails tattooed on him somewhere - maybe back of the knee/calf, not hidden but not in plain sight - as a reminder that he got a second chance with price and the lads after they retired from the service and got into construction.

price: lobster

lobsters mate for life: MYTH, lobsters have several short term partners and in this fic price is a bit of a renegade; breaking hearts city to city and never looking back. until… 😏

gaz: silver star link

a reference to waist beads given their placement. waist beads (and correct me if i’m wrong here) are significant in west african countries to signify womanhood and maturity, and i love that idea of gaz keeping hold of her culture even in the small ways day to day especially since in this fic she’ll have moved away from her mums. she’s able to balance her stud/masculine identity with the idea of womanhood and make it suit her needs and wants.

johnny: paper plane

had to give u one of ur suggestions :3

the paper plane in my mind was meant to be a flyer/handout from johnny’s church that, when she was a kid, she’d folded up - maybe during a slower part of service or when her ma was talking the priest’s ear off afterwards - and thrown impulsively, not considering the perceived disrespect of it (adhd amirite?). i stuck it out of st catherine’s shoulder to hint that it probs also hit someone else from the congregation too, adding salt to the wound.

[leighsartworks216]

@soppsop The man has been pinned like a butterfly to my corkboard