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@mariamapmaker

Cartographer & CivEng, polymer clay artist, 10th Century Norse shipbuilding enthusiast in the Emerald City. Ver heill ok sæll. صحت مند اور خوش رہی

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Of COURSE he's lying - his mouth is open.

Also: I highly doubt an Iranian official would release a statement in Arabic; Iranians speak Farsi.

02.03.2026 16:42 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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"Official ICE policy says 'ICE should not detain, arrest, or take into custody for an administrative violation of the immigration laws individuals known to be pregnant, postpartum, or nursing” except in exceptional circumstances.

reproductiverights.org/news/pregnan...

16.02.2026 18:04 👍 7190 🔁 3266 💬 339 📌 174
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Polymer clay and wire, no paint 🐦

12.11.2025 04:47 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 1
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A real president does this.

Thank you to every veteran who’s worn the uniform and carried the weight for the rest of us — just respect 🇺🇸

11.11.2025 19:26 👍 23978 🔁 6197 💬 935 📌 516
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Only the fluffy ones at my house do this.

15.05.2025 03:49 👍 17 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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I thought my sardine can ornament idea was original until I saw a very crude rustic metal one online. Oh well, here's mine made from polymer clay, wire, paper, chameleon powder, and resin. Perfect for my weird brother. #polymerclay #crafts #ornaments #sardines

28.04.2025 04:29 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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More Dichroic Polymer samples from a Portland Polymer Clay Guild demo I gave last month. UV resin is the best topcoat. I wrote out free basic instructions and a materials list geared toward intermediate and advanced clayers at BlondeCrowStudio.com

#polymerclay #artsandcrafts #BlondeCrowStudio

22.04.2025 22:52 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Don't let anyone treat you like free salsa. You're cheese dip, Baby.
YOU. ARE. CHEESE. DIP.

22.04.2025 18:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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NoRuz Mubarak 🪻🪻🪻

24.03.2025 23:19 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Dandelions are the first food source for honeybees in the spring. Don't mow them down until other plants in your yard are blooming!
Glass and Premo.

#polymerclay #art #dandelion #crafts

22.01.2025 22:13 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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22.01.2025 22:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I was so excited creating this one thinking how the recipient would like it. When I gave it to him he stared at it, smiled, & left the room! Not the reaction I was hoping for... Then his wife told me he loved it so much he started tearing up & didn't want people to see how emotional he got. Whew!

11.01.2025 05:32 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Have you ever seen a more perfect Christmas tree ornament for a Star Wars geek? He loved it! I designed it to hold a battery operated tea light. Premo, Cernit colored translucent, glass.

#polymerclay #Starwars #Christmas #art #crafts

11.01.2025 05:12 👍 12 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

President Obama has class.

10.01.2025 04:54 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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"GARAM chai benow."
I heard this every morning when I came into my dad's restaurant. I made boiling hot chai, he made eggs, & we ate them with the previous night's naan. I miss breakfasts with Baba.

TINY Premo pieces, silver bezel. The pendant is 2.5cm tall (1 inch).

#polymerclay #art #crafts

10.01.2025 04:47 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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More examples of my Dichroic Polymer
#polymerclay #art #crafts

10.01.2025 04:20 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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'Dichroic Polymer'
I developed my technique for faux dichroic glass through much trial and error and then taught it to my polymer guild peeps. Premo, Cernit, cellophane films, mica powders, acrylic paint, resin.

#polymerclay #art #nwpcg.org

10.01.2025 04:15 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Why do chickens wearing rain boots make me laugh? I used Premo clay, metal pinbacks. I also used my friend Kim Day's tiny 3D-printed cutter for the flower shapes.

#polymerclay #art #crafts

06.01.2025 06:28 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

A never-ending source of national embarrassment. The old Heinlein quote applies:"He's an idiot studying to be a moron, and not studying hard."

23.12.2024 05:28 👍 14 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

I'm not crying, it's the onions someone is chopping...

23.12.2024 03:11 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Who knew? The marauding Vikings were also expert traders, craftsmen and farmers If you picture the Scandinavian Vikings of the Middle Ages as marauding hordes raping and pillaging, you're right -- but only half right. A new exhibition in Minneapolis puts the other half on display...

www.mprnews.org/story/2019/0...

22.12.2024 22:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Which civilizations were more brutal than the Vikings? Answer (1 of 5): I mean… a lot of them. The Vikings weren’t a civilization, really. “Viking,” so far as the word existed, was more of an occupational description similar to how we’d use “pirate”—it w...

www.quora.com/Which-civili....

22.12.2024 22:13 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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These 6 Viking myths are compelling, but are they true? DNA testing and archeological finds are offering new insights into the real lives of the Vikings.

Weird how you deleted my answers to you bc you're wrong. Facts are facts:
www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti....

22.12.2024 22:13 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Their shipbuilding skills are an important part of history whether they were "very, very bad" people or not. That's WHY it's called 'The Viking Age'.

And no one is disputing they were bad.

22.12.2024 22:09 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Were the Vikings really so bloodthirsty? The Viking story has fascinated people for centuries. But as a major exhibition opens at the British Museum, have we got them wrong?

www.bbc.com/news/magazin....

22.12.2024 20:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Were the Vikings as ruthless as the Mongols? Answer (1 of 2): The Answer in my opinion would be no, to put into perspective how ruthless the Mongols were when the Mongols invaded China one of the most populus civilizations in the world at the ti...

Google is your friend.
ancienteurope.quora.com/Were-the-Vik...

22.12.2024 19:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Who knew? The marauding Vikings were also expert traders, craftsmen and farmers If you picture the Scandinavian Vikings of the Middle Ages as marauding hordes raping and pillaging, you're right -- but only half right. A new exhibition in Minneapolis puts the other half on display...

www.mprnews.org/story/2019/0...

22.12.2024 19:55 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti....

22.12.2024 19:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Viking Violence (Chapter 5) - The Cambridge World History of Violence The Cambridge World History of Violence - March 2020

www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...

22.12.2024 19:53 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

One of the more plausible theories, anyway.

22.12.2024 18:46 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0