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Tuesday Treasure - Clever Kent Moore Chevrolet Key - https://mailchi.mp/queenborganizing/treasure-hunting-corner-spirit-tea-kettle-6331540

This quaint brass and steel key from a past QBO estate sale hides a handy surprise - a tiny tool set for tuning up your Chevy! The tools include a 2” ruler, a simplified custom carburetor float gauge, an Electrolock nut wrench, Electrolock retainer nut wrench, and a 4-bladed feeler gauge set to measure crucial clearances between engine parts: the motor hot exhaust valve (.008), motor hot intake valve (.006).....

Tuesday Treasure - Thoth's Sacred Ibis

A couple of African Sacred Ibises recently landed at QBO's downtown boutique. These hand-made bird statuettes were produced in the 1960s and 1970s for people visiting Egyptian sites such as the Pyramids and the famous Nile river, where ibises were once abundant. The real adult birds have bald heads and necks so the statuettes' heads, necks, legs and feet are bare cast metal, while the 'feathered' bodies are molded from papier mâché......

Tuesday Treasure - Good vs. Evil - Balinese Rangda Mask - https://mailchi.mp/queenborganizing/treasure-hunting-corner-spirit-tea-kettle-6331417

This striking mask from the island of Bali in Indonesia is now on offer at our downtown store. It is hand-painted, hand-carved, woven, and sewn of sandalwood, bamboo, cloth and horsehair. If you're terrified just looking at her, you are not wrong - this is Rangda, the Demon Queen!

Or, more specifically, this is the traditional Rangda mask that elaborately costumed Balinese dancers wear when acting out a great battle.....

Tuesday Treasure - Little Llamas - https://mailchi.mp/queenborganizing/treasure-hunting-corner-spirit-tea-kettle-6331310

These figurines came to QBO via different consigners. They are probably all llamas, although the smallest may be an alpaca. Brass llamas are a common souvenir from Peru as the animals were first bred in South America and are numerous there. The brass castings are a continuation of the metallurgy perfected by people in the region of Machu Pichu, who were crafting sophisticated bronze tools, jewelry and religious items 1,000 years before European......

Tuesday Treasure - More Cowbell - https://mailchi.mp/queenborganizing/treasure-hunting-corner-spirit-tea-kettle-6331266

We call these "cowbells" but they been used on just about every free-roaming animal humans ever domesticated: pigs, goats, llamas, camels, horses, even geese! They've been around long enough to lend the English language the esoteric term "bellwether" (meaning 'trend setter'), which comes from the 15th century Middle English "belle-weder" referring to the neutered ram that leads the flock. Shepherds could track their charges location ......

If you know someone who loves working with Kids K-5th and is excited to teach them about Science, Technology, Engineering, Art & Math please let them know about this part time position at a local non-profit. https://siliconbox.org/job/program-staff-position/

The students in the first cohort for 3D Printing for beginners really love the bulbasaur. They’ll have a nice surprise in class on Friday!

We had our first 3D Printing class for 1-5th graders and it was a blast!