#Leadwood

[conandaily2022]

St. James, Missouri teacher Rikki Lynn Laughlin arrested; Did she contact a boy via Snapchat?

Rikki Lynn Laughlin, 24, of Leadwood, Missouri, United States is originally from Irondale, Missouri. She is married to Grant Andrew Laughlin, 23. Rikki is an alumna of Central Methodist University in Fayette, Missouri. From 2019 to 2020, she was a preschool teacher’s assistant at East Missouri Action Agency (EMAA) Mid St. Francois County Head Start in Park Hills, Missouri. In June 2022, Grand…

[milkmanviii]

New lightsaber just dropped, and this one stabbed me personally multiple times. Those spikes are, in fact, spiky.

Ty Yorrick’s lightsaber, made with leadwood, mango, sycamore, and a tiny piece of redheart, with a beech(?) stand.

The mango looks really nice but the piece was full of fine cracks which did make it difficult to work with, especially the spike pieces which kept breaking. The sanding on the spikes probably could’ve been a little neater but if you don’t look too closely you can’t really tell.

Ty’s such a cool character, I hope we get more of her in phase 3

[petitagite]

Jon Lewis

Handblown glass with steel & leadwood

via vesselgallery

[carolinawrenn]

Hardy plumbago (Ceratostigma plumbaginoides). Also known as leadwort or blue leadwood.

[worldsandemanations]

Jon Lewis Handblown glass with steel & leadwood

[erikacousland]

Hunting Knife - 16th/17thC | Heritage Blades

A replica of a hunting knife on display in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, dated 1550-1600s. 

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A replica of a hunting knife on display in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, dated 1550-1600s.  The blade is traditionally hand forged with a pattern welded damascus core, wrought iron spine and high carbon steel edge. The handle is african leadwood, fixed with steel rivets with bronze applique decoration. This particular example has a ring nagel, a small hand guard and a decorated blade catcher.  Althought the original is not found with a sheath, I have made one to fit the knife based on extant finds from other hunting sets. The sheath has a decorated, handstitched leather core with German silver fittings all around, hand engraved with desings typically found from other hunting knife sheaths. Vital Statistics Blade: damasucs steel core, wrought iron spine, carbon steel edge Handle: afican leadwood scales, steel rivets decorated with bronze applique Sheath: hand stitched leather core with German silve fittings Knife Overall length: 290mm Blade Length: 190mm Max Blade Width: 28mm Weight Overall: 380g Knife: 227g

[buyela-e-africa]

Lilac Breasted Roller (Coracias caudata)

A beautifully coloured bird, with a green head, lilac throat and breast, a blue belly and even brighter blue wing feathers, unlike most species of birds both sexes have the same colouration.

Rollers get their name from their impressive courtship flight, but the Afrikaans name "Gewone Troupant" meaning wedding ring has a unique story behind it.. we have not come across any documentation to back up the story but it's a good story none the less.

The story is about young men who wanted to get married, these men would gather the sticky gum from the Leadwood tree (Combretum imberbe), they would then roll this gum into a ball and place it where Lilac Breasted Rollers would normally purch, on a high branch in a dead tree, when the Rollers come to sit on the branch the gum ball would trap the bird - the man would then catch the bird and remove a single blue feather 🪶, he would then offer this feather to the bride to be, rapping it around her finger which in turn would stain her finger blue.

In African culture this bird is known as the bird of peace and reconciliation, the beautiful "bird of the sun" - often sacrificed by Kings who were making peace.

One of the Rollers would be caught and its neck then cut with a battle spear - purifying the spear of evil - by the blood of the "bird of the sun". The spear would then be broken by the two Kings, buried in a hole with the bird buried ontop of the spear - and thus peace was made.

We @ Buyela-e-Africa absolutely love the stories of the Bushveld, comment here if you know of any other Bushveld stories.

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Under The Leadwood Trees

[milkmanviii]

The X-Men’s Blackbird from X-men ‘97, made with walnut, cherry, African blackwood and redheart, with a spalted beech and leadwood base.

This one’s definitely more sturdy than my Jedi vector, except the base, the front wheels are definitely a bit tentative. I found a bunch of reference images all of which were either slightly or significantly different from each other so this is kind of an amalgamation of the ones that kind of agreed with each other but mostly just the stuff I liked from each one. I can never quite get picture that I like that show off the colours of everything correctly, it’s either really desaturated or really oversaturated or everything’s too yellow so I’m still trying to figure out the best set up.

[horoscopo-dehoy]

Videncia en Freer

#ESCORPIO: Esté preparado, ya que en estos días atravesará un momento de transformación que lo afectará tanto de manera interna como externa. Vincúlese con cuidado.

Tarot Y Videncia:

Llámanos Ahora

🇺🇸 Estados Unidos: +1 21 37 84 79 82

Para resolver los problemas del corazón y entregarnos a la felicidad. ¡Los temas del corazón son tan complejos! Cuando el amor no ha tocado a la puerta nos sentimos ansiosos por encontrar a la paraje ideal y una vez que la tenemos nos enfrentamos al miedo de perderla. En cualquiera de los casos no hay de qué preocuparnos porque el tarot amor nos brinda la ayuda necesaria para triunfar en una relación.

[what-david-sees]

This hand-carved leadwood buffalo statue was sent to me by a dear friend in South Africa. The piece now animates my fireplace mantel as it motions me to return to the place of its origin.  

[mike13mt]

Under The Leadwood Trees by IrcaCaplikas_JackyKobelt

[etyileiet]

Under The Leadwood Trees by IrcaCaplikas_JackyKobelt

[vicariousplacebo]

Tree Cutter at Work by IrcaCaplikas_JackyKobelt Source: http://bit.ly/2XMMCBQ

[magic-is-something-we-create]

startin off strong besties

it is time once again for me to do another creature design