Clever Cat Curiosities

Clever Cat Curiosities Ethically sourced curiosities | NC 🖤
Wet specimens • taxidermy • bug pinning • natural oddities • Commissions OPEN 🌿

05/24/2026

Shop Restock!! Did you see an item on the oddity shelf you like? 👀

Mourning Cloaked in Ivory 🦋This is a Papilio Xuthus “Asian Swallowtail” placed into a cloche! Inside is a bed of moss an...
05/23/2026

Mourning Cloaked in Ivory 🦋

This is a Papilio Xuthus “Asian Swallowtail” placed into a cloche! Inside is a bed of moss and the butterfly is resting on preserved hydrangeas! 🤍

The cloche is sealed and adorned with lace. ☺️

$8️⃣5️⃣ + 🚀ing

Paypal | Venmo Accepted!

Listed on my website as well if you’d like a payment arrangement! 🫶

https://clevercatcuriosities.myshopify.com/products/mourning-cloaked-in-ivory

05/23/2026

What’s your dream oddity piece? 🧐🦴🪲🫙

New piece available! 🧡8x8 Black Shadow Box - All floral materials are real and dried/preserved! Specimens in the box: Bo...
05/23/2026

New piece available! 🧡

8x8 Black Shadow Box - All floral materials are real and dried/preserved!

Specimens in the box:

Bottom Left - Cethosia Bibles

Top Right - Kallima Inachus (Orange Oakleaf Mimic Butterfly)

Card in the box:

Printed image - “In the Underworld” oil painting by Boris Vallejo with “Xv Threshold” printed in a gold font underneath it!

Asking 1️⃣5️⃣0️⃣ + 🚀

PayPal | Venmo Accepted

Listed for sale on my website as well with payment plans available! 🥰 Ships from NC!

https://clevercatcuriosities.myshopify.com/products/xv-threshold

05/21/2026

I’ll be making some bug boxes this Saturday so keep your eyes peeled 😗🖤🦋

Bumping! Can ship out today! 🫶
05/21/2026

Bumping! Can ship out today! 🫶

I’ve had these in inventory for way too long! 😅So I’m letting everything go TOGETHER for a bundle deal TODAY! 🖤🫶 Ships f...
05/20/2026

I’ve had these in inventory for way too long! 😅

So I’m letting everything go TOGETHER for a bundle deal TODAY! 🖤🫶 Ships from NC, 27265!

Shipping for $150 total - Free shipping!

Includes:

1 Antique 1888 photo framed with handwriting on the back stating his information

1 deer vertebrae flower wall hanger (flowers are removable they’re in the photo for display purposes)

1 articulated fetal kitten mummy paw

1 dorito the mummy mouse

+ 1 bumper sticker of your choice upon purchase

PayPal or Venmo G&S accepted! Can ship out tomorrow! ☺️

05/18/2026

Same with what’s in the storage shed…😂😂😂

05/18/2026

What would you pay for this? 🌙🦌

I want to be open and honest about something with you guys. I’m about to be releasing a few items for purchase over the ...
05/18/2026

I want to be open and honest about something with you guys.

I’m about to be releasing a few items for purchase over the next few weeks, and I want everyone to just be aware that they won’t be as cheap as they were in the past.

When I started this journey a few months ago, fully selling my oddities and artwork, I truly had no idea where to begin with pricing. Shipping was a nightmare too. 😅 A lot of the time I wasn’t paying myself for my time and work. I was hardly charging for the materials I used and most times ate the shipping cost of items. (It’s all figured out now that I have a shipping station and labels, thankfully.)

I love doing this work. I’ve been at it and slowly perfecting what I do over the last few years, diving down rabbit hole after rabbit hole, learning new preservation techniques and different processes.

However, I am a young mother who works full-time all night and runs this business during the day out of pure passion and spite at this point. It can be hard at times with chronic illness flares from running myself like crazy and not sleeping. 😅

The years and years of education I have poured into myself are valuable, though. My time is valuable. My resources and suppliers are valuable. So for me to be able to continue pushing on through this business, I can’t completely pride myself on being one of the cheapest anymore and giving away all my resources and years of research all of the time. 🥲

I love helping people start out; I really do. Small businesses helping each other is the least we can do. It’s just really hard on me when I sit here talking to people for hours, going in depth about different processes and materials, and they don’t even help interact with my posts for engagement, and they certainly never end up commissioning or snagging a few things from the shop. Sometimes I honestly just never hear from them again, and it’s disheartening a bit because me being busy is a complete understatement in my realm.

So please, when you see my prices increase, please know I’m not trying to be overzealous; I’m just trying to pay myself for my time and materials and not completely out of my own paychecks. Please, when you may ask me for help on an entire process and I might refer you to a written-out course I made, please don’t think I have my head up my ass either; it just takes sooooo much time. 😭😭😭

I hope this post doesn’t come off completely wrong, and I hope I’m communicating everything correctly, but regardless, I love all of you guys so incredibly much, and I couldn’t be here without every one of you. Even the ones that silently watch. This was a hard post to even have to make, as I don’t want to come off as pious or rude at all; I’m just trying to not be in the hole over here. 🤧 🖤

This cat is me right now when I’m pressing the post button by the way. 🤣

Address

3407 Archdale Road C
Archdale, NC
27263

Opening Hours

Monday 1pm - 9pm
Thursday 1pm - 9pm
Friday 1pm - 9pm
Saturday 1pm - 9pm
Sunday 1pm - 9pm

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+13365152029

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