Sometimes, My Inner Anthropologist Gets A Bit Giddy

First, may I direct you here: What did ancient Babylonian songs sound like?

As an anthropologist, this makes me so happy. As an artist, this makes me so happy. As pretty much all of myself, this makes me so happy! Honestly, it’s beautiful music, and while it’s not going to be exactly like the music nobody has heard in over a millennium, they’ve been careful to cover all of thier research bases, and as Stef Conner says, “…ancient Babylonians would maybe think it sounded a bit familiar…”

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An Etui! (Gesundheit.)

My mother ran across the coolest box in the history of boxes–an Etui.

Here you can find a picture of one, as well as in Sparetime Crafts‘s Etsy shop.
It’s a box inside of a box, with padded sides, that all folds out like a flower! Apparantly, they’ve been used since the 1700s, when no proper woman would be caught without one, containing the various necessities, such as sewing thread, darning needles, a comb, and so forth.

There are some truly beautiful ones out there!  These look so useful, as well! Some aren’t much bigger than about four inches square, to hold a nice little needlework set!

This idea is brilliant, as soon as I get a chance, I really want to try and make one of my own! Everyone should have one, it seems 😀