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My Bio
My name is Rachel and I live in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. I'm currently a college student working on a B.S. in Physics.

Ever since I was little I've always loved all kinds of animals, especially dinosaurs, which evolved into a fascination with bones. Currently I have a modest collection of bones, mostly made up of various deer bones, but also including bones from a raccoon, fox, duck, and turtle. I also intend to start teaching myself how to carve bones when I have a little more time on my hands and hopefully I can make some decent-enough stuff to sell and maybe help pay for school.

Other than bones and school, I also have 6 dogs of my own whom I love dearly, and my teufelkatze Jupiter, a feisty orange tabby (whom I also love, although he's a little crazy man sometimes).

I also enjoy listening to music (I have broad tastes), reading (anything by K.J. Parker, please!), having thoughtful conversations, drinking tea, going to the park (duh), drawing (sometimes, not as often as I used to), dressing up, and all kinds of other shenanigans.

I'm always open for questions or comments or idle chatter, although keep in mind I'm still a bit of a novice with all this bone business, so don't think I'm an expert! I will, however, try to answer any questions to the best of my/wikipedia's/the internet's knowledge :D

Favourite Books
Scavenger Trilogy
Favourite Writers
K. J. Parker
Favourite Games
Assassin's Creed, Portal, Minecraft
Other Interests
physics, philosophy, osteology
.. pun intended?  Anyways, I'm still around doing things, I'm just rather bad at keeping deviantArt up to date with my goings-ons.  I've added many new specimens to my collection as of late and shall hopefully get some pics of them up soon!  I haven't been doing as much in the way of bone carving for a while as I don't really have an optimal place to do it, but we shall see if I can get myself to figure something out! Anyways, I've picked up my first roadkill this week!  It was a double bonus too because a scavenger was hit by a car while trying to scavenge the original roadkill :)  The first roadkill was a melanistic coyote (who knew they l
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... now has a facebook profile!  http://www.facebook.com/rachelsbones Come see my updates about the pieces I'm working on and other silly things!  I'm available for commissions so feel free to contact me either via deviantART note, facebook message, or email (rachelhandres@gmail.com) Thanks!
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Well, it's unfortunate news but most of my deer bones are too dried and split to be of much use for bone carving.  On the bright side, I've got quite a few sections of beef bones sitting around the house that we had for the dogs (who don't seem interested in chewing on them anymore).  Yin (sister ring to http://life-bender.deviantart.com/art/Yang-323228602) is currently sitting in tea to stain it, although I think it's getting to the point where it won't take any more color.  I also need to burn the spot on Yang just a tad bit bigger, then the pair of them will be finished and I will get pictures of them up so yo
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Thanks so much! :heart:
Wow, bone carving thats new. But really awesome :) Keep up the awesome work.
Thanks so much ^.^ I appreciate it
Just finished that picture for you! Check my gallery.