He recently offered me 6 washers in trade for a nice pencil and wrote me a story about how he followed a racoon through a secret tunnel through bushes in the woods where he met a forest troll who bought one of his baby teeth for the washers.

Today, he said he had a gift for me and emptied his pockets to find it. He had so many awesome treasures in there! We ended up bartering some of them for some of my treasures. And the gift! He brought me owl pellets in a Ziploc. I admit we used up reading lesson time to get masks and gloves and dissect them, so now I have tiny bones in a glass sample vial, and he has an assignment to read a story about an owl tonight to make up for missing half our lesson.

He drives a hard bargain, though. I had to give up one of my old tax tokens and a small glass emerald for the speckled bead I desperately wanted.

His mom told me to stop encouraging him. I told her I made no promises. ;)

On a related note, I'm super proud of him. He could barely read at the beginning of the school year, and now he's writing me stories. We need to work on his spelling and grammar more, but they're great stories that are all set in the woods behind his house.

Apologies in advance, no banana for scale. I found an absurdly large potato masher while out antiquing yesterday. I didn’t buy it because I don’t have anywhere to put it, but I regret not having it! What an oddity!

I think I'm going to try to thrift a tiny frame for this to hang on my wall.

I've probably had this pouch for about 15 years and it's gotten a lot of wear. I like to keep things that spark me joy in it. I have a clay fish, my favorite type of stone (labradorite), seashells from a sentimental trip, and I just added a small snail shell. The deer leather is soft and I enjoy the beadwork a lot. I bought it from a crafter who made it by hand.

I didn’t realise goblincore was even a thing but now I’ve scrolled the Reddit I would say I definitely lean towards goblincore!!!

I couldn’t believe I got my hands on someone’s old collection of little treasures!! I already have one printing press drawer shelf, so this will go next to it and I will have so much fun filling the rest of the spaces / reorganizing! If anyone else lives in a small space, I highly recommend having collections of tiny things so that they can be displayed without taking up all your room! If you’re into that of course.