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@ The Real Fish Ohio
@RealFishOhio
Between Earth and Home. Sumali Kasım 2022
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@TomsPedalDemos They do make good stuff. 👀🎸🎼👊🏻😎🤌🏻
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@CindySinor I draw a bit. Even with colored pencils.
And, I must say, your work is amazing. 🤌🏻🔥
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@CrazyVibes_1 Haints in the reflection. 👀😳
Solid and creepy all at once.
I dig it. 🤨👊🏻
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Found this absolute monstrosity at the Goodwill on Route 9 and stood there for twenty minutes trying to figure out if it was the ugliest thing I’d ever seen or secretly magnificent. It’s a Victorian display cabinet that looks like Dracula’s personal china hutch, weighs approximately four hundred pounds, and the price tag said thirty-five dollars—which felt like either a mistake or a curse.
My daughter was with me and kept saying, “Mom please don’t,” but I was already picturing it in my craft room because I’ve been storing supplies in plastic bins like some kind of animal. Got two guys from the loading dock to help me wrestle it into my SUV, and one of them asked if I was starting a haunted house, which honestly wasn’t the worst idea.
Brought it home and my husband looked at me like I’d lost my mind but didn’t say anything because he knows better after twenty-six years. Spent the weekend cleaning decades of dust out of the carved details, and the thing is genuinely beautiful in a gothic horror kind of way—all those curves and dragon feet and the beveled glass that catches light weird.
Now it’s holding all my yarn organized by color and my jewelry-making supplies on the bottom shelves, and every time I walk past it I feel like I’m running a Victorian curiosity shop instead of just hoarding craft materials. Posted photos in one of the vintage furniture groups and got flooded with messages from people asking where they could find similar pieces.
Ended up connecting with this woman in Pennsylvania who restores antique cabinets and sells them through her shop, specifically for crafters who want their supplies displayed like treasures. She said furniture like mine used to hold fancy china that nobody ever used, but now it gets a second life holding things people actually create with.
My daughter still thinks it’s hideous—but admitted it makes my craft room look less like a storage unit and more like somewhere an interesting person works.
Credit - Katie Thomson

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