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I took a trip to Smith & Edwards Superstore this morning, where the motto is “We Have Everything You Need… If We Can Find It.”  It began as a military surplus store in 1947, and while it has expanded out to hunting and gun supplies, fishing and camping, hardware, housewares and various bargain store bric-a-brac,…

I ran out of the small spice jars I had been using for the Siberian bloodworms, but I found these on Ebay for about a buck each in a case of twenty-four, including postage. Also, O what a difference natural light makes!

Varying a bit from my fantastic grotesqueries in jars, here’s a historical grotesquery in a box: If you can’t read the label, it says, “Witch finger’ amulet to ward off evil.” I’m almost as proud of the box as of the finger: When I started, it was a plain balsa wood box from a yard…

On the left, a septic parasite; on the right, more Siberian bloodworms, as the label clearly states.  These will also be for sale at CONduit on Memorial Day weekend. (I’m planning to have an oodle of bloodworms; everything else will be one of a kind.)

Using Photoshop to help correct the flaws of my poor photography… By the way, all the creatures I’ve posted, and ones yet to come, will be for sale at CONduit at the end of May.

Justifying the “I make things” part of my subtitle, here are a couple of things in jars that I made recently: Yes, I know, I am a terrible photographer.  They look much cooler in person.