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    a home full of curiosities

    by Kaylah Stroup August 28, 2014
    Shortly after I first moved into my apartment I shared some photos of my curiosity cabinets. Six months have passed since then and of course, my collection has grown. My dining room, which lacks a table but houses my collection as well as Klaus’ crate, is pretty darn awesome if you ask me. Since it’s changed quite a bit since my first photos of it I thought it would be fun to share some updated photos. (Same with my living room, I’ll be photographing that again soon since it’s evolved since first sharing photos!)

    A super quick Q+A of things that always get asked:
    Where do you get all those things? Here and there! Estate sales, ebay, the trash (seriously…), and sometimes folks are even nice enough to send me things that would fit in my collection perfectly. Yes, I am totally interested in any dentures, or teeth you may find!
    Did you kill all those butterflies? No way. I found all of them dead on the beach a few years back. Monarch butterflies migrate and sometimes they just don’t make it. No idea what caused so many to die there that day but there were tons.
    Do you clean your own skulls? I do.
    What is in that jar? The jar in the second photos has Professor’s testicles. I simply asked the vet when he was neutered if I could keep them. She happily handed them to me after his surgery. I also have Klaus’.

    Below is a mold of my teeth after braces. I asked the orthodontist if I could get the original mold of my crooked teeth that they took right before I got my braces put on. He said he wasn’t sure but would try. At my next appointment he excitedly told me he had the mold for me, I looked and it was of my new straight teeth. I’m still a little bummed I don’t have a mold of my super crooked teeth but I guess having any mold of my teeth, straight or not is pretty cool. I also got to keep my braces, which you can see two pictures up.

    I also have a handful of strange things that could definitely fit in this room scattered around the apartment. There is a shelf full of medical models in my bedroom that I’ll tell you more about as soon as I get that room photographed for a little tour.

    My apartment is pretty darn cute!
    xoxo

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  • abandoned auto parts + apartments

    by Kaylah Stroup August 27, 2014

    One of many buildings we explored on our grand adventure day was formerly an auto parts store on the lower level with apartments upstairs. We’ve actually all been itching to hit small buildings as opposed to the big factory buildings. Factories are interesting, but normally they’re pretty gutted. Scrappers have stolen anything and everything worth …

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  • On The Road

    by Kaylah Stroup August 23, 2014

    I finally finished going through and editing the last of the photos from June’s roadtrip out west. It’s so strange to me that this trip was so long ago, and on the same hand, it’s also crazy that it even happened. It was seriously probably the best week of my life. This is just a …

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