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Specs Owl Art / Aliya Hashmi
@specsowlart.bsky.social
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🦉Oddball from Scotland
☠ Making weird/cute fings, mostly with found animal bones and wool
🏳️‍🌈 Also loves music, my lizard Pan, and being autistic
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#Edinburgh friends, I will be in your city on Saturday, holding a stall at the market for the #ScottishPaganFedaration annual conference! The conference is 9.30-23.00, but the market finishes at 17.00. I'll be sharing a stall with the wonderful artist Rachel Mills.
The Pleasance, Edinburgh.

#pagan
October 23, 2025 at 5:54 PM
specsowlart.bsky.social
Tag yoself, am sexy owl pellet
rosemarymosco.com Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · Oct 23
Halloween costume ideas for birders.
A comic called halloween costume ideas for birders. In panel 1, labeled easy, there's a person labeled northern cardinal wearing a party hat, a beak, and red clothes, and a person labeled roseate spoonbill wearing pink clothes and a wooden spoon on their nose. In panel 2, labeled harder, there's a person labeled merlin sound ID wearing a big green circle with a microphone modeled after the button on the merlin sound ID app, and a person labeled hybrid green x blue jay wearing a complex costume with a mask and robe and hat modeled after a recently discovered hybrid bird. In panel 3, labeled challenging, there's a person labeled baltimore oriole nest wearing an enormous accurate woven oriole nest suspended from their arms and shoulders, and a person labeled african jacana carrying chicks with a hideous costume of long-toed bird feet hanging from their armpits. In panel 4, labeled hot, there's a person labeled high quality spotting scope who is shirtless and is wearing a spotting scope mask on their head, and a person labeled sexy owl pellet wearing an owl pellet top and bottom with a mouse skull on their head.
October 23, 2025 at 5:50 PM
specsowlart.bsky.social
Hey everyone, in case you've missed it, this is the gig I'm putting on in May. The first EVER tribute to David Byrne and Talking Heads in his hometown! Over half the tickets gone, so don't miss out 🙂
October 23, 2025 at 5:49 PM
specsowlart.bsky.social
Hope you're all free on the 15th May cause I have a treat for you!

#ScottishPop #NewWave #PostPunk #ScottishMusic #ScottishMusicians #scotland #LiveMusicScotland #dumbarton
byrnes-night.bsky.social Byrne's Night Dumbarton @byrnes-night.bsky.social · Oct 15
BYRNE'S NIGHT DUMBARTON
The FIRST EVER tribute to #DavidByrne and #TalkingHeads in David's own hometown of #Dumbarton! Taking place one the Friday after his 74th birthday! Truly a Once In A Lifetime event!!

Dumbarton Harp, 15th May!

Tickets and more details here Wegottickets.com/event/679775
October 15, 2025 at 10:09 AM
specsowlart.bsky.social
When Linda (one half of Recordsville, and co-organiser of Pop At The Lock) asked me to make a piggy to add to her vast collection, how could I possibly refuse?

She named this feltie Wee Aliya, which is quite an honour!

#pig #animals #NeedleFelting #felting #CuteAnimals #ScottishArtist #pigs #cute
October 13, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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Tory party’s long journey away from science, reason, responsibility, common sense and truth is complete
Kemi Badenoch vows to repeal Climate Change Act
Tory leader says she would replace it with ‘cheap energy’ strategy, ending decades-long consensus on climate
www.theguardian.com
October 2, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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🙏 💚
October 2, 2025 at 1:00 AM
specsowlart.bsky.social
Oooooh, what's this?! Exciting!!!

#ScottishPop #ScottishMusician #ScottishMusic #Dumbarton #scotland #DumbartonHarp #LiveMusicScotland
byrnes-night.bsky.social Byrne's Night Dumbarton @byrnes-night.bsky.social · Sep 25
Awright everyone, ignore my tired eyes, I'm a lot more excited than I look, because we have a venue!

We will be at the #Dumbarton Harp Social Club on Friday 15th May, the weekend of #DavidByrne 's 74th birthday!

Follow this account to bs the first to know! Super exciting info soon to be released!
September 25, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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byrnes-night.bsky.social
Exciting things coming soon! Follow Byrne's Night to be the first to know!

Logo by the very talented @jord-division.bsky.social

#ByrnesNight #DavidByrne #TalkingHeads #PostPunk #NewWave #ArtRock #ScottishMusician #ScottishPop #ScottishMusic #Dumbarton #Scotland #ScottishArtist #DumbartonRock
David Byrne in a grey suit looking to the left. Dumbarton Rock behind him. At the top reads "BYRNE'S NIGHT"
September 1, 2025 at 11:46 PM
specsowlart.bsky.social
I am a mole and I live in a hole!

Meet my wee Zombie Mole! A real #mole skull, with a felted body, coming out of a felted molehill!

It was very fiddley gluing aw the wee teefs back in exactly the right sockets!!

The skull is from a mole i found dead in Dumbarton #Scotland

#needleFelting #mammals
September 1, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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New Hieronymus Bosch demon! This jolly friend is playing a jaunty tune atop a haystack. This is from the Bosch painting The Haywain.

Let me know if youd like this wee weirdo

#HieronymusBosch #MedievalArt #WeirdMedievalArt #WeirdMedievalCreatures #WeirdArt #GothicArt #AutisticArtist #NeedleFelting
September 1, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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Thank you for sharing this, Alison! I'm so happy you like your wee spoopy felties!

#NeedleFelting #HieronymusBosch #jackdaw #birds
alisoneales.com Alison Eales, Nerves of Steel @alisoneales.com · Aug 21
Just had a special visit from @specsowlart.bsky.social, hand-delivering her incredible creations. The wee devil dog is from Hieronymus Bosch's painting 'The Conjurer', and the two little jackdaws are sitting on a piece of jackdaw bone Aliya found. I'm so happy to give these a home.
A photo of two felt creations - a little dog-like figure and two jackdaws sitting on a piece of bone - with the artist's card behind them
August 22, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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Hey diddle diddle, the cat and the fiddle, the sheep leaped over the bone.
This wee sheepy is jumping over a sheep humerus a friend found near Bannockburn.
I made it with curly Wensleydale locks 🤗

#NeedleFelting #sheep #CuteAnimals #animals #WeirdArt #BoneArt #nadelfilzen
August 18, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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Cute wee #pheasants on a #pheasant breastbone. I found the bone in South Ayrshire, summer 2021. The wee felties were very delicate to make. The male has shimmering gold and blue "feathers", and the female has cute speckles on her back and wings.

#NeedleFelting #animals #VultureCulture #birds
August 18, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Teensy weensy #jackdaws on a #jackdaw breastbone! The bone is from a bird I found dead at Knowetop, #Dumbarton. It was awfy fiddly to make these wee tiddlers but I'm happy with how they turned out 🤗

#NeedleFelting #animals #birds #ScottishWildlife #ScottishBirds #UKbirdwatching #BritishBirds
August 13, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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Just a beautiful #PeacockButterfly I found at #Lochwinnoch Nature Reserve. Out in the rain, tryna warm up. I put them in a more sheltered bit so they could dry off.

#butterfly #butterflies #insects #animals #ScottishWildlife #ScottishNature #invertebrates
August 13, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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How exciting! Marmoti, my felted marmot based on the "mammoth-sized marmot" has made it to the papers!

Thank you Shannon Ainslie for being interested in my woolly nonsense!!

#marmot #rodents #CuteAnimals #animals #mammals
August 9, 2025 at 6:45 PM
specsowlart.bsky.social
I've made some of these sheep wall hangings before, but this one has a twist - literally! I've made the sheep with curly Wensleydale locks. Herdwick, Hebridean, and Scottish blackface sheep all hanging from a sheep rib I found in Renfrewshire.

Let me know if you'd like it

#animals #NeedleFelting
August 8, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages
August 6, 2025 at 1:01 AM
specsowlart.bsky.social
OH LAWD SHE COMIN
Of course, I HAD to make a felted version of the "mammoth sized marmot" of Internet fame, photographed by Taylor Borth in Kamloops, Canada.
I've named her Marmoti (moti is Urdu for fatty!)
What do you think? Let me know if you'd like to adopt her!

#animals #mammals #NeedleFelting
Needle felted version of a very fat yellow bellied marmot
August 5, 2025 at 11:45 AM
specsowlart.bsky.social
This took me so long to make because it made me so emotional. Moroccan uromastyx lizard tail skin. I painted the background many of the colours you can find on uros, in prime paint that dries like scales!

I got the specimen from a pet shop in Ayr

#Uromastyx #lizard #reptiles #WeirdArt #GothicArt
August 4, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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Sushil Dade from The Soup Dragons gets his wee woolly haggis! I gave it to him at the Glad Cafe where his equally cool daughter Radhika was supporting Autocamper 😎

#ScottishPop #TheSoupDragons #ScottishMusic #BMXBandits #FuturePilotAKA #Radhika #scotland #IndiePop #JanglePop #c86
August 1, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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Eek! Annie Spandex from Lung Leg gets her Scottish Pop Haggis at the best popfest in the world, Glas Goes Pop!

#ScottishPop #LungLeg #GlasGoesPop #ScottishMusic #glasgow #GlasgowMusic #IndiePop #PunkGirls #JanglePop
July 31, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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Barred Owl #birds
July 25, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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Took one of ma wee @bmxbanditsduglas.bsky.social haggises to see the Everyhing Flows exhibition at Summerlee Museum. Great collection of artefacts, loved seeing aw the zines and stuff, but the presentation was really poor, loads of mistakes, and incoherent sentences. Some weird omissions too.
July 14, 2025 at 8:43 AM