Well, I’m officially 18! I went out to a fondue place. My grandmother asked if it was a real tooth and I told her it was my “sweet tooth” she is always telling me to bring places. She thought I was hilarious, my dad not so much.

Sorry for the image quality, but I only have my cellphone camera now. This is Ophelia, my doe skull. I’m still deciding if she should stay on Baratheon’s head or hang under him.

My raccoon rug arrived! It’s in pretty good condition, minus the ugly state of the artificial mouth. I don’t want to actually have him as a rug for fear of animals messing with him so I have him as a chair cover. I named him Lotor, after part of his scientific name.

thebuttstache sent: Do you, by chance, know how to preserve a dead rabbit for soft mounting? I've got a rabbit on my hands and don't know what to do with it when I thought I'd try soft mounting, and I have no clue how. oops!

I have absolutely no clue about tanning, I haven’t tried it yet.  Do any of you guys have any tips or tutorials?

Just won this fabulous raccoon rug for $40! Wish he had his paws and tail but I’m glad to have him either way. I’m really not sure where I am going to put him, so if he ends up not being something I can keep I will sell him to someone else, probably through ebay. I kind of had a falling out with my bone collecting helper so I’ve been more towards buying things lately.

Finished My First Mammal Skinning

Took me about 2.5 hours, which is kind of ridiculous for a squirrel I think but I was taking it slow and the hole I made was in the nose. I’m pretty proud of my work :) I might turn her into a little squirrel rug, or mount her traditionally if possible. I fleshed her out as best as I could and rinsed out the blood and stuck her back in the freezer. I’m trying to figure out which method to use for tanning. Also, does anyone know the best way to handle paws? I couldn’t figure it out so I just skinned it as close to the paws as possible and cut it away?

Found a roadkill squirrel! My mom took me to get him which was really sweet but also incredibly awkward. His face is completely messed up (see: DISGUSTING) but the rest of him is good. So this will be my first mammal skinning! :D I would like to try tanning the skin, but I’m not sure what would be the easiest to do for someone who has no clue what they are doing and also doesn’t have a lot of cash. So any suggestions?

I hit 200 followers! (actually, 214 now) Back when I started this blog, I only had a hand full of greasy bones and a half mummified toad which I hid in a drawer and told no one about. Thanks to your support and acceptance I am  comfortable enough with my hobby that I wore my cat bone earrings to the mall the other day (pictured in a shitty cellphone pic). Thank you all for following, feel free to message me here or on my personal blog if ever you want advice or just feel like chatting :)

(Seller’s photo, not mine) I just won this doe skull on ebay! $5.50 with $5 shipping. So I did good from what I can tell. I’ve always wanted a deer skull and it seems like the other bone queens just stumble upon them everywhere. I’ve never seen a deer in my state so that wasn’t an option. Not sure what she will be named, something with “O”.

There should be a shop where hunters and road-kill collectors can donate their scraps of fur or bones, etc. where bone collectors, amateur taxidermists and such can buy for cheap. Like goodwill for dead things.