My Mom has a massive paper wasp nest hanging high in the peak of her sunroom. I thought my poor stepdad was going to have heart failure when she finally brought it in. It's been there for years now ... and it's VERY cool!
Yes love that I have one in my curio cabinet as well and I just got one that is as big as a steering wheel. Came out of a wooden box hunting stand, not sure what I’m gonna do with it yet
My aunt was the original collector of lamps and lanterns. None of her children were interested.
) and started collecting. She moved in to a senior citizen apartment complex and had to downsize. I bought her oil lamps. They are beautiful!
I think they can be used to deter other wasps from building nests near them. I used to buy fake ones to hang on my porch for this reason. It did seem to work but I bet a real one would work better.
I have something similar - a glass fronted attorneys bookcase that includes things like shells, nests, and bones. I have a possum skull I found when I was a kid and a wallaby skull I found in Tasmania. On my porch, there is a horseshoe crab shell, and I have a dish of sea glass in one bathroom and heart-shaped rocks, coral and lava in the other. I even made a wall hanging from copper wire I found on our property and undyed wool from different places I visited. I read once that Hygge is characterized by a house that looks like it was decorated by a Viking squirrel. That tracks for me.
