some cards from my most recent tarot deck. i decided to call it "numero b" (because it's been made from one issue of the magazine numero berlin). as this particular issue had to do with sex, i'm presenting maybe not my favorite cards, but a random sampling from the safe for work ones
here's its little page on my blog
https://dogboy.smol.pub/numerob
should we do some Brief #tarot readings with my newly finished deck??? 👀
let me know! below/in a DM/in an email etc
only two left to go!
bad floor photo but - these nine missing pips is all that's left to finish this deck... (majors and courts are done!)
this year?? can I do it??
(a little bit of nudity)
so the yarn i've been spinning For Ever now has both an extremely short staple (and probably had the shortest locks carded into it, instead of discarded pre-wash). i've been trying to knit it into a blanket but i'm a bit worried it will just Forever Shed. working with it means littering wool dust and bits of strands in a 2 meter radius around me.
any ideas on how to proceed? will it stop shedding after a time? should i make something else, where shedding won't be such an issue? what could i make? is there a way to treat the yarn or finished product that would help? i'd rather not felt it, i haven't ever seen something felted that i liked, but if you have a Favorite Felted Thing feel free to suggest it, i'll have a look.
(maybe it will just have to be a lap blanket for use on the balcony...?)
crisis somewhat averted! i found the checkers in a bizarro place, not sure what even compelled me to look there (official-ly stuff, like bank calculators and chip readers???)
still kind of worried about the gunky tray... but should be good for a while!
tragedy! my no-name but not the cheapest backgammon set is uhh leaking? the once-stinky resin pieces seem oily, the trays where they sit are spotty with liquid, and (different substance?) there's some powdery white gunk in its corners that gets waxy when collected together (i thought maybe dried wood glue but no).
and! i can't find the spare set of wooden checkers i bought. i set them aside /somewhere/ together with extra dice. i know this because the tray where they lived now holds all the /other/ dice and the Actually Spare checkers from the wooden set, one of each color in case you lost one. well. i lost the entire set. it's in no logical place. it's in no reach-able place, and i don't think i'd purposefully hide it somewhere we don't usually have access to. where the heck is it?
i have half a mind to get a Professional board to avoid the craftsmanship/manufacturing issue, but those range from a few hundred euro (lol) to a few thousand pounds (LOL) obviously it would be that lower end. but. i'm gonna travel soon, i wanted to take the board! no way am i getting an expensive board now (maybe xmas?) but i also don't want to get a tiny shitty travel board just because. i'll be drowning in boards. where are my checkers?
(after discovering the stinky checkers originally, and before ordering the wooden ones, i'd made a set out of thick cardboard. i've since thrown them out. wah! i'd make those again if we hadn't just thrown out paper recycling)
@icarus a project for the cooler months?
hiya! time for a new pinned post/ #introduction
- i'm polish living in belgium
- my longest special interests are tarot and divination
- i'm also into various arts and crafts
- i love nature!!
i upload my sketchbooks on itch.io:
https://forestgeit.itch.io/
and i have a website and blog on the small web:
https://dogboy.smol.pub/
come say hi :yell:
found on tumblr - if you're in the US, you might be able to find an empty movie screening to enjoy all on your own
anyway, the whole cute story is: partner and i were on our way back from our park walk, it's very warm and sunny. we crossed the street and saw this little beetle walking around the pavement, quite a big guy for this early in spring.
there's someone crossing the street, so we stand there pointedly looking and exclaiming over the beetle so that the new person doesn't accidentally step on them and they can get to the safety of the nearby bushes.
instead the person - a tall guy, maybe a little older than us - also stops, bends over to pick the guy up, and shows it to us closer. the beetle walks all over his hand and arm, and the guy (who did look like a bug-enjoyer, he was wearing a fleece and a sort of fisherman's hat in the same color as the bug - greenish gray) proceeds to tell us Bug Facts. the diet, the colors, the varieties.
"they come out with the sun, like butterflies."
then our beetle friend flew off, we thanked the guy for his time and knowledge, and we all parted ways 🌞
how about some free #tarot readings for the new year? if you'd like one just write below or dm me :) (or email, if you're willing to dig that out from my links)
can be a general reading or around a theme/issue of your choosing, but i'll be looking at the beginning of the year and like.. how to set yourself up for success 🌞
re that last one - i want to read for people! and do little exercises and examples etc. but i constantly butt up against technology.
i have a smol web tarot place but it's /smol/. loading each post up with an image kind of feels like it's going against the spirit, even if i help pay for hosting. also the audience isn't very big, i'd probably have to re-post here and i'd keep forgetting to do that.
could make another tumblr but historically i've deleted every tarot specific tumblr i ever made. idk, it feels like i'd have to Cultivate It a certain way and i don't think i feel like it.
and i already have /a/ tumblr. would i rebrand it into a tarot specific one? would i keep it a mixture of unrelated reblogs /and/ tarot? seems messy? but having a secondary blog is not the way when i'd only be able to interact with folks with my main.
also - the annoyance of taking pics with one device and then actually writing the text posts on another, with a real keyboard.
maybe if i scan a deck and then just digitally assemble the pulled cards (again a bit of a nuisance, but smaller than moving things between devices and resizing etc??)
but still - where would it go? 😫
personal thoughts for the new year:
- another "use what you've got" season (don't want to fall for the false promise of happy-making purchases)
- read your shelves (there are so many cool books just waiting!!)
- make and share more art (i do make it but don't tend to share it all that well. but making more won't hurt either)
- figure out how to do more tarot
edit:
- generally: "projects" over "distractions"
yay! another notebook finished, another pdf of art to share with y'all. almost 60 pages!
:boost_ok: hello, gardeners of mastodon. i'm turning to real people with my questions, as it seems most websites i found are full of AI crap. so please answer if you have personal experience 🙏
i'd like to know about neem oil use. i have a mild mealybug infestation on two plants. i've sprayed one down and wiped the leaves with a solution, but the other is way more fiddly (blue potato bush) and i can't imagine wiping it all and getting in all the little twig crannies where the insects nestle. i'd also like to preventatively treat my ivy. so:
1. is it true that you can water the plants with the neem solution to achieve the same result? (or better! i've seen leaf spray as preventative and watering as treating an infestation?)
2. what are the ingredients and ratios you use in your preferred solutions, be it for spraying or watering (if indeed it is the done thing).
thank you!
Saw a majestic #mushroom today!! Except all the photos came out blurry :(
i'm reading "we need your art" by amie mcnee. have some encouraging dogboys!
