The Bones and Bobbins Podcast
In the Venn diagram of crafting, true crime, and morbid curiosity, you’ll find Bones & Bobbins digging through dusty old boxes in a curiosity shop parked right at the center.
- Update frequency
- every 13 days
- Average duration
- 88 minutes
- Episodes
- 75
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
9 - Fragrance, Flowers, and Fat
S03E09: Perfume making techniques, enfleurage, and musk.
It's all flowers and frippery...until it's not.
Show notes available Friday: https://www.bonesandbobbins.com
8 - Titties & Teeth: Both Shiny
S03E08: Boobs and bling: the history of sports bras and custom grills.
Two jock straps walk into a marathon with some pretty mind-blowing mouth jewelry.
Show notes: https://www.bonesandbobbins.com…
7 - Urban Spelunking We Will Go!
S03E07: Abandoned structures and Architectural Salvage.
We don’t want to tell you how to live your lives, but maybe avoid that underground toilet bunker, okay?
Show notes: https://www.bonesandbobb…
6 - When the Moon Hits Your Eye, Just Go With It
S03E06: The stories behind the names for full moons and how the moon does (or doesn’t) impact the human body.
Did you know that a blue moon is actually a thing, and that blood moons really do exist…
5 - You Don’t Have to Go Home, But You Can’t Play Here: Abandoned Places
S03E05: Abandoned Waterparks and Neverland Ranch.
The heyday of bad-idea waterparks, when the kids were probably drunk and their 1980s parents decided to just roll the dice on safety, and the dark …
Update: Welp. It Finally Happened.
Hello, creepy crafters!
There won't be a new episode this week, because Natali came down with the covid. We decided that excitedly telling each other stories until midnight was probably not the most …
4 - Dipping a Skull into Private Clubs, Fraternal Orders, and Secret Societies
S03E04: The Not Terribly Good Club of Great Britain and a fascinating look into the history of fraternities and sororities in the United States.
Private clubs can be fraught with countless problema…
3 - Stick a Pin in It
S03E03: Entomology (insect collecting) and the taxidermy of Walter Potter.
Some people like academic displays with carefully labeled insects, some like kitten weddings. Who are we to judge?
Show n…
2 - Roses Are Red, Your Lips Are Blue
S03E02: The history of the valentine and the hypnotic love spell murderer, Dr. Carl Coppolino.
From penning sweet nothings to vinegar valentines, Natali explains why the history of these cards is f…
1 - The Princesses Are Not Okay
S03E01: “Princess” Alice Roosevelt, the irrepressible eldest daughter of President Theodore Roosevelt, who was pretty much always up to no good, and Princess Alexandra of Bavaria, who was pretty much…
24 - All is Artificial, All is Brite
S02E24: The mind-blowing plot twists of WWII bomber pilot Si Spiegel (and his artificial Christmas trees), and the glittering nostalgia that is a box of Shiny Brite Ornaments
In short, Mr. Spiegel …
23 - From Mary Sachs to Coco Sucks
S02E23: Mary Sachs, the Merchant Princess of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and Coco Chanel, who was very good at both designing clothes and being a horrifyingly terrible person.
Meet Mary Sachs, a sing…
22 - Certain Death & The Final Makeover
S02E22: Historical ways to confirm death and the art and science of modern embalming practices.
It was really hard for people throughout history to tell exactly how dead the bodies of other people …
21.5 - Halloween Bonus: Trick or Treat, You Decide
A Halloween bonus episode featuring Natali and the girls. ("The girls" being Natali's delightful and witchy teen daughters, who came to Haley's rescue!)
Once upon a Halloween week weary, a book dea…
21 - The First Femmes of Forensics
S02E21: Kate Warne, the heroic first woman Pinkerton detective, and Pearl Tytell, handwriting detective and trailblazing forensic document examiner.
When you need a tricky job done, you have to hir…
20 - Living Nightmares
S02E20: Slender Man and the Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
Whether written at the dawn of a nation or crowd-sourced on the internet, all urban legends hold within them at least a tiny kernel of truth. He…
19 - She Walks in Beauty Like a Fright?
S02E19: Mrs. Margaret Smith-Wilkinson, nicknamed the Countess of Monte Cristo, and Lady Jane Lewson, the possible real life inspiration for Miss Havisham.
Come meet a hotel mogul turned high societ…
18 - Wicked Stitches
S02E18: Woven spells, sewing magic, and the history of spinsters.
Is there someone in your life who knits with glass needles, spins their own yarn, sews their own patterns, or dyes their own thread? …
17 - Whoa, Mama!
S02E17: Personal Ghost Stories and Haley’s Haunted Mom.
I mean, who doesn’t want to hear stories about a spooky local legend, a whispering apparition, a 1970s UFO, and Haley’s mom talking about the…
16 - Fashion and Function
S02E16: Sewing spacesuits and the science lab at the Eiffel Tower.
Did you know that the Eiffel Tower doubles as art and science? It’s true! Also true: sewing a space suit is hard, and then your work…