Please Tell Me I’m Not The Only That Eats The Whole Apple. Like All Of It, The Core Included. Just

One of my favorite Funky MUSHROOMs

Lactarius Indigo, Indigo milk cap, is an edible blue mushroom! It grows in eastern N. America, Central America, and East Asia.

Oh, to be a florist and in love and living in a cottage with my significant other and our cats, plants, and children...

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Fall picinics ♥️

the autumn picnic for fairies 🍂 // @everlinet

How it's made! Ok yes it skips about a hundred steps, eventually I will make a loong video of how I made this ceramic mushroom treestump :)

The Ocean, Me, MS Paint, 2022

fluffy friend to help you be happy

Fluffy bunny

:)))

Ok so, Velcro is actually a company name and not a product. What we call velcro is actually a ‘hook and loop fastener”. Both the company Velcro and the hook-and-loop were founded/invented by the same person: George de Mestral, a swiss electrical engineer.

Fun fact: velcro is a combination of ‘velours’ and ‘crochet’ so it’s literally velvet-hook

The story goes that while De Mestral was on a hunting trip in 1941 he noticed that a very special plant kept sticking to him and his dog…or rather the seed pods did

Introducing

Burdock

(Burdock or wild rhubarb as a plant has a separate and very long history as a medicinal plant spanning across Eurasia and North America)

Or in this case, the Burdock seed pods specifically which up close look like this:

See where this is going?

De mestral, the ever inventive and curious man (this was bound to happen, he tried to patent his toy airplane as a 12 yr old and also made an asparagus peeler), looked at the seed pods under a microscope and decided that he could probably make a synthetic version that could work as an inbetween of buttons and zippers.

He traveled around Europe looking for a manufacturer, but they all told him that mass-manufacturing was out of the question. He finally found one in Lyon, France who could make a nylon-cotton fabric.

With that fabric he created the first velcro BY HAND and was able to receive a patent in 1955.

The hardest part was making the tiny tiny hooks. With the cotton-nylon blend, he was able to make them but ONLY by hand. He took the hooks and would attach them to a separate piece of fabric using tiny loops.

Imagine taking nylon and making tiny hooks like these by hand. Yeah

He didn’t come up with the mass-manufacturing until a couple years later when he came up with a system that was basically a loom that used barber’s clippers to cut the nylon at a precise angle.

Anyway~ he actually then started selling mass-manufactured velcro in Europe and the US in the 60s but people didn’t really like it

UNTIL NASA

Velcro then went from a weird little thing to ‘oh shit astronauts use this in space to keep stuff from flying everywhere’ and ‘mommy, I want a velcro watch like Buzz Aldrin. Please~”

And that dear friends, is the story of Velcro and the swiss dude who noticed an annoying quirk of a plant’s will to reproduce

velcro is kinda crazy if u think about it

How I was burned by an evil eye

I just remembered a time when I accidentally drew the evil eye on my wrist and it burned. Because I’m an idiot I drew it again on my other hand and it still burned, so I drew something else on my hand with the same pen and it didn’t burn. I think I either got the evil eye or someone cursed me. I washed the eye off and saw that it had actually burned the eye onto my wrist. I had to used holy water, salt, and ashes on it. It didn’t go away until the next day. I’m not really sure how I feel about curses or such things, but I definitely am wary of evil eyes now.

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