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Lil’ Miss Moss Bit- Wee Wild Caught Faerie

At just 1.5” Lil’ Miss Moss Bit is the Teeny Weeniest  of all of the Wild Caught faeries in the series.

She is a Spring Sprout Faerie who sprouted out of a patch of moss that was growing around the roots of a tree.  Her home is in the forest in a made of rotten redwoods and mushrooms. She has a pet honey bee and feeds on honeycomb and lichen. She says that all of the trees look the same and can’t find her way back to Faerie Realm!

She is trapped in our mortal realm and lives in a little cage.  Don’t worry she can get out.  The bars are no match for her faerie magic!  She can come and go in and out of the cage as she pleases.  The bars are only symbolic of her being lost and then captured in our mortal realm!

One of a kind, Hand sculpted polymer, hand painted, wire armature, Knit fabric, faux fur hair


 

Tierra- The Earth Fae

One of the Elemental Faeries. She works with the gnomes, tending the soil. She loves nothing better than munching on fallen foliage and playing garden games with her friends, the Earthworms and snails.



In the Winter time she hibernates in an underground burrow that she digs out with her spade-foot toad feet.  Her hair is lichen and moss and wings are new Spring growth! They will sprout and grow as the seasons change. They may even bloom and bear fruit.  She will shed them before going into hibernation. She is made of fresh fertile Earth and is a host to all sorts of seeds, fungus, and flora that germinate on and inside of her body. When she emerges from her hibernation you never know what might be growing from her, or where it might sprout from. Once she had a lily growing right out of the top of her head! Silly Lily!




One of a kind, Hand sculpted polymer, wire armature, hand felted fabric, faux fur hair

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Orris Ruth- a Wild Caught Faerie

Here she is, Miss Orris Ruth (pronounced in Spanish Root, the "H" is silent).  Another member of  The Wild Caught Faerie Clan. 

Orris is the botanical name for Iris.  Miss Orris was formed from the root as it was curing in preparation for distillation for perfume.  The orris root is used in perfumes after drying and curing for up to five years.  It has a woody, violet like scent.  I use it in my natural hand made soaps.  It is also used in Morrocan cooking.  It has a raspberry-like flavor. 

She is the 4th in my Wild Caught Faerie series.  Although she appears to be locked up in her cage you should know that I would never be so cruel.  Those cage bars are no match for her faerie magic.  She could escape the cage at any time.  The bars are more symbolic of her trapped status.  You see, Miss Orris Ruth came out to play while her flower was in full bloom but neglected to get back into the bulb before the blossom faded and so, she is trapped, stuck here in our realm until her flower comes into bloom again next year.  

Orris Ruth is 2 3/4" tall when seated.  She is hand scuplted of polymer clay over a wire armature.  He tulle gown is hand sewn directly to her body.  Her hair is hand, dyed, Tibetan mohair which I applied directly to her scalp, her feather wings were also hand dyed to match her hair and the blossom from which she sprung from. 

The cage is manufactured but I distressed and patinaed it to give it a bit of old world charm.  She can be removed from her cage.  her arms can be repositioned.  The rest of her body is sculpted in a fixed pose.  

What's on my work bench?

Why a purple faerie WIP, of couse!

She is just 2 3/4" tall when seated.  She is a member of my Wild Caught Faerie Clan. 

I promise to post more pic's as she progresses along.  I will also try to get more information about her and her particular species.  I believe that she is a flower faerie, possibly related to the Begonia family or perhaps the Irises???  Some sort of bulb or tuberous flora is certain but, sometimes these little ones are very hard to understand.  They communicate at such high frequencies that sometimes it is down right painful to be in their presence!

Anyhow, here she is.  Please indulge her a bit.  She has been quite pampered, as she was born and raised in a comfy flower bed, and is quite used to being tended to regularly!

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I Caught a Tiny Wild Faerie in my Garden

Wild Caught Faerie

My Wild caught faerie is 2 inches tall when seated, hand sculpted of polymer clay.  She has acrylic fur hair, acrylic "make-up, and natural fiber clothing painrd with acrylics.  She sits on a bed of soft, Spanish moss and her cage is manufactured.

Don't worry, She is only here as long as she wants to be.  Bars are no match for faerie magic.  Should she choose to fly off she easily could do so.  I will just enjoy her while it lasts.  I hope that you do too!

Little Miss Moss Bit. She is a wild caught faerie. The tiniest of all of the wild caught faeries. She lives in the forest in a home made of rotten redwoods and mushrooms. She has a pet honey bee and feeds on honeycomb and lichen.