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The Reindeer Muse

11/13/2018

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​This is the Reindeer Muse,  the Queen's own poet. Every day, she alights to a sunny spot to collect the sun and her thoughts for a new verse she'll take back to the Queen and court for the evening.
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This one-of-a-kind miniature fairy dress is made from birch bark and reindeer moss the color of toasted marshmallow.
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She is adorned with a sash of pale green curly leaf and an applique of pale lichen and a bit of fluff.
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And the bodice is stitched up the back with moss colored thread.
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Fall fairy

11/8/2018

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Another fall fairy made from red and brown leaves.
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Cut along the midrib, the veins of the leaf patterns fit together like a pattern with the blade as the neckline.
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I love the way the red and brown intersect and how the "wings" came out.
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Each piece is one of a kind and comes with a custom fairy hanger.
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The fall fairies are here

11/7/2018

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The fall fairies are here, adorned in dried leaf with "wings."
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Each comes with its own customized fairy hanger.
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With a fern "spine." Each one is handmade from natural materials on my property in Maine, is one of a kind and priced very affordably.
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The Fuin Fairy

11/1/2018

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She is known as the "fuin" fairy, a symbol of the end.
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It is the end of summer, the end of natural light, the beginning of winter's time.  The commencement of the dark half of the world.
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Her bodice has been made from grasses that were once part of the Green World, but now have dried and withered.
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Her adornment is from the petal of a hydrangea bush that has turned purple with the fall cold and a curled dried leaf.
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Her skirt is made from the dried bulb of Queen Anne's Lace, brambles and the white fluff of plants gone to seed.
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She is a symbol to honor the change of the cold and dying season. It is also the season of renewal for all of the plants that have died and decayed nourish the Earth for May's growing season.
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