dark academia decor: specimen jars & apothecary bottles

In this episode we will be creating specimen and apothecary jars to display your arcane curios and eldritch potions.  These jars are a quick and easy craft perfect for halloween, but they can also be displayed year round to give your desk or workshop a foreboding, dark academian elegance.

I’ll be going through what materials I use for specimens, the labeling process, how I distress the jars, and how I assemble everything to be aesthetically pleasing.  

📍 Time Stamps:
00:00 intro
00:09 jars and specimens used
02:02 label content creation and aging process
04:54 jar cleaning/distressing
06:40 assembly
10:26 fake blood preparation
12:31 labeling the jars & sealing the lids
16:03 final reveal

✋ Materials
COFFEE GROUNDS: for everything
Specimens: dollar tree grow toys and plastic skeleton
Fake blood: chocolate sauce, corn starch, red food coloring, coffee ground
Misc: Jars, acrylic paint, candle wax, twine, brown paper bag, mod podge

✍️ Here are some of the fonts I used for my labels:
https://www.hplhs.org/resources.php#f...
https://www.dafont.com/carbontype.font
https://www.dafont.com/blackletter-ha...
https://www.dafont.com/berylium.font
https://www.dafont.com/top-secret-sta...
https://www.dafont.com/tell-us-pangai...

🧙 Having trouble coming up with fictional names of people and places?  Here’s a nifty name generator I used for the content of my labels:
www.fantasynamegenerators.com

✨ If you like squishies, here’s another channel: https://tinyurl.com/436zfvwy
🌹 If you like digital portraits, here’s an insta: Instagram: qlotum6