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Kristy Baxter

@kbax.bsky.social

Vintage Internet Time Traveler Newspapers, magazines, museums, and ephemera Also cats & whimsy Pennsylvania girl Other Account: Old Timey Food @oldtimey.bsky.social Shop: https://www.etsy.com/shop/DamesAndDahlias

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Kristy Baxter@kbax.bsky.social · 4d ago

Went and wandered a bit at Pennsylvania's premiere festival celebrating the world's saddest cryptid, Squonkapalooza. Saw some things, bought some things, watched a band sing about Frogman, just another summer Saturday in paradise

Kristy Baxter@kbax.bsky.social · 5d ago

This guy, Shakespeare, would walk behind the tv in order to hit the button on the power strip when I wouldn't let him go on the deck. In the winter. When there was a foot of snow. He would also stare into the fire for hours, likely communing with the Dark One

A Himalayan looking cat with a cat nip banana on a box. He looks so innocent A cat standing on the post of a deck railing, pine trees in the background A cat staring into the fire in a pellet stove, getting his marching orders from Satan or maybe even giving Satan the marching orders
Savannah Ostrowski@savannah.dev · last wk.

one of my cats has learned to press the preheat button on the oven when she's mad at me because I'm not listening to her. she does it but doesn't press start, so it just beeps at me until I go to the kitchen and see her standing defiantly on the stove. she is a demon and I love her.

Kristy Baxter@kbax.bsky.social · last mo.

"Gorgeous in a delightfully chaotic way" is not how I thought I'd ever describe a chessboard, and yet Museum of Applied Arts, Hungary Johann Joachim Kändler 18th century

"The squares of the Meissen chess board are painted purple and green with tiny square grids, and its edge is lavishly gilded. The squares of the initial positions are white octagons, and in all of these, on thirty-two fields are miniature pictures of Turkish infantry and cavalry, each shown in exquisite detail. The squares of the king and queen have half-figure representations of the Turkish emperor and empress, those of the knights galloping cavalrymen, and those of the rook, battle elephants. The pawn’s positions have representations of Turkish infantrymen. The figures, however, distinctive small sculptures by Johann Joachim Kandler (1706–1775), on little triangular bases, wear the clothes of European courts at that time. This chess set is the Meissen Porcelain Factory’s commemoration of the military success of the age, the victory of Europe over the Turkish Empire. The pawns hold their hats on their heads with both hands, the rook is a battle elephant, the knight a rearing horse, the queen an elegant, crowned lady, and the king wears armour. The complete Meissen chess set in the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum in Munich has similar squares in the same colour scheme, but its chess pieces are ornate rocaille towers."chessboard from above with no figures on itchess board from another angleclose up of elephant figures