Crystal's Crafts

Handmade mini Vday cards , only $1 !!

Join me for a fantastic time at the 16 de Septiembre event happening at Farmers Market next Saturday🎉 Bring the whole family and enjoy a day filled with festivities, delicious food, and unforgettable memories. 🌽 Don't miss out on the fun! See y’all there!

It is in the beauty of flowers that I find reprieve from an ugly world.

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De Nada - they are open until 6 p.m. today!

You can buy her stuff at De Nada across from the old HEB! Open Tues - Sat 10-6.

This is awesome all around. Women are so resourceful... and how thoughtful of the flour companies to help out!

After realizing that poor women were using the flour sacks to make clothing for their children some flour mills started using flowered fabric for their sacks, 1939.

This sounds like fun!

7 days till our first Artist Spotlight at De Nada! Meet Artist IG: vella.stark.designs in person from 12-5pm! She will have Trivia along with prizes and of course her amazing art work! Tell all your friends and let's make our first Artist Spotlight a huge success!

*Literally* something for everyone!

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These. Are. Awesome.

The food is good yall. Go get some this week.

It saddens us to be writing this post… Unfortunately we’ve been fighting to stay open the last couple of months. It has not been easy and we feel like we have nothing left but to ask for help from our community to keep our doors open. All we ask is to SUPPORT LOCAL & share our posts, it will go a long way for us. 🥺 Get the word out there & come enjoy some good food! We have a week left until we determine whether our doors stay open or if we have to close them. Serving San Angelo for the last 12 years has been an honor we just hope we can continue to serve y’all some of the best Mexican food in town! 🫶 Thank you to all of our loyal customers for all the love & support! We love y’all 🥹❤️ 3415 S. Chadbourne -El Chef Tomas & Family

Photograph of starfish (or "sea stars"), 1917.⠀⠀⠀
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One of a set of strangely alluring images from a report by Ludwig Heinrich Philipp Döderlein (1855–1936), a German zoologist who specialized in sea stars, sea urchins, and crinoids. Although Döderlein is best known for his study of marine life in Japan, where he was one of the very first European naturalists to work, from 1879 to 1881, these starfish are actually from the waters around Indonesia, collected during the Siboga Expedition, 1899–1900. Taken upon a surface of black, the images seem to render the name of “starfish” / “sea star” all the more appropriate — almost as though the stars of a night sky, under a human gaze, have exploded enlarged into biological beings.⠀
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More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/photographs-of-sea-stars-1917

I didn't know there was a name for that... interesante.

September 17, join us in person for Stendhal Syndrome at the Brooklyn Museum with Art Historian and Mythologist Liz Andres. Learn more and register at bit.ly/stendhalsyndrome.

“Stendhal Syndrome” refers to a collection of intense physical and emotional symptoms you may experience while or after viewing a work of art. Fainting, confusion, rapid heartbeat, disorientation, hallucinations, and heightened emotions may manifest when in the presence of exceptionally beautiful, ancient, or provocative objects.

This highly interactive guided workshop invites participants to engage with select artworks in the galleries of the Brooklyn Museum and open themselves to being stupefied, mystified, enlightened, and inspired by the objects before them. Facilitated by museum educator and frequent Morbid Anatomy lecturer, Liz Andres, join us for intimate conversation, close looking, and a deeper connection with your own psyche.

Liz Andres is a museum professional and scholar based in Los Angeles with an emphasis on museum education and exhibition development. She holds degrees in Art History, Classical Mediterranean Archaeology, and Museum Studies from U.C. Berkeley and the University of Leicester and is pursuing a PhD in mythological studies at Pacifica Graduate Institute. Her current research focuses on hybrid and liminal creatures in ancient Greek art and mythology, museum taxidermy, and representations of death and nature in western art.

Image: Dario Argent, The Stendhal Syndrome, 1996

The Secret History of Holywell Street: Home to Victorian London’s Dirty Book Trade Victorian sexuality is often considered synonymous with prudishness, conjuring images of covered-up piano legs and dark ankle-length skirts. Historian Matthew Green uncovers a quite different scene in the sordid story of Holywell St, 19th-century London's epicentre of erotica and s**t.

This is so cool

This is actually just a handrail 🖤

See more: themindcircle.com/most-creative-sculptures/

Art by German sculptor Karl-Henning Seemann

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Mongolian manuscript from the 19th century, full of charts and diagrams that astrologers (generally Buddhist monks) would use to calculate the best time to do certain things, such as depart on a trip or remove a dead body from a dwelling: https://buff.ly/315AzDC