Thank you Hilaire for your confidence in my talents for handling the razor 😘

Anais Black dress and bolero by Sascha's Designer @ Swank

Beaded Cascade Earrings 8 by Loordes of London @ Swank

Aoki tattoo by Juna @ ebento

Miuccia P. Sunnies by Versois et Mailloux @ Swank

Versois et Mailloux

The tool is an antique drawknife. A historically costumed gentleman was using it on some cut tree branches to make ax handles and walking sticks last week when I visited Kline Creek Farm, in West Chicago, Illinois. The farm is intended to depict for visitors what life on the farm was like in the 1890s. The shavings are from the branches that were being shaved. I had intended to post this image for the Crazy Tuesday "Cutting Instruments" theme this week, but life intervened, and I didn't get it posted. So here it is today for the Thursday Monochrome groups.

HMBT & HMT

The smell of fresh pencil shavings is associated with my childhood years when I constantly used HB, 2HB and colour pencils. Google tells me that this smell is cedar as it is the favoured wood for pencils as it is soft and sharpens easily without splinters.

For Macro Monday 13 September 2021 topic: Smell

My father's shaving brush

Metal shavings from Railway works in Bury. (1734)

just a basic shot of a carpenter's pencil with a touch up laid on terracotta.

108/365,

Wilkinson Sword

Garden Village, Burnaby, British Columbia

Submitted in Macro Mondays PPEP

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macro mondays: spiral...pencil shaving from manual sharpener

USF Botanical Gardens

The quintessential shaving brush

Yesterday in California's Anza-Borrego Desert we found these amazing 3 mm. planthopper nymphs which I am calling Shaving Brush Bugs. We found them under rocks, where presumably they feed on exposed plant roots in that damp micro-environment. I've read several possible explanations for the waxy fibers that this and many other planthoppers have. It might discourage predators, who could end up nibbling non-tasty wax instead of yummy bug. It may disguise them as bits of fungus. Or possibly, since the nymphs drink plant fluids and are constantly excreting excess sugary honeydew, the waxy fibers might help shed the liquid (wax is hydrophobic) so the bug doesn't get "gummed up." In any case, it's quite a look.

digital art

Macro Mondays-Vibrant Minimalism

I don't 'really' do macro Mondays; this is coincidental.

I hope everyone has a great week.

Restore old wooden furniture

Liberty Tree Park | Plantation | Florida

These are just a few recent antique store finds that I arranged together:

- Vintage shaving mugs

- Truck figurine, die cast pencil sharpener

- 1952 textbook titled "Building Citizenship" by Dr. Ray Hughes

holidayzzzzzz, the last part

brač, croatia

macro mondays - spiral

shave it

Taken for the 07/12/20 Macro Mondays theme "Celebration"

HMM!

groups.yahoo.com/group/extremehaircuts/ www.headshavevideos.com/

In the window of a shop selling shaving equipment, in Berne.

It's hard to shave when you don't have opposable digits.. or a shaver. This didn't stop Captain Morgan from trying though.

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For: Crazy Tuesday

Theme: Round in a square format

For Flickr group "MACRO MONDAYS", topic: "Soap"

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My contribution to Macro Mondays' challenge, "Brush", on 2 March 2020. It's an old shaving brush which belonged to my late father-in-law (1917-2005). HMM,

For 366 and FGR - Stupid, stupid, stupid!

The worst thing is - it's actually oven cleaner :(

Merida, Yucatan, Mexico

Details from an old hand decorated Persian silver shaving bowl, area captured about 2x2 cm.

Wood planed shavings.

Lens Cimko M series 28mm Macro F2.8 at F5.6