I hope everyone isn't tired of seeing wall pockets because I've made one more---the last for awhile.  It's very simply made & took only a few minutes to complete.  I laid a crocheted doily on the fresh clay & rolled a dowel across it lightly so it left an impression in the clay.  I curved the overlapping edge, twisted the bottom & used newspaper to help it keep it's shape until it dried.  A stain brings out the texture.  It was a gift for a friend's 90th birthday.

Thanks.  I didn't think of morels when I made my mushrooms.  A friend in class recently made a morel (after I made mine) so perhaps I should give it a try.  I live in the country so morels grow in our woods.

I created a bunch of Faery Garden mushrooms.  The largest is about 2&1/2" tall & 4" in diameter so they're just the right size for Faery Gardens & potted plants.  One has a tiny Snail crawling across the top & another sports a Ladybug.

A simple wall pocket I made by shaping & overlapping a clay triangle into a cone.    I scalloped the edge that overlapped at the front & attached a separate flower.

My first wall pocket.  After shaping it from a slab of clay, I slit the front so I could curl the corners under.  I also twisted the point at the bottom before carving vines & butterflies into it.  I sometimes wish I'd cut a longer slit in the front but am otherwise very satisfied with this piece.  Oh, well, that can wait til another time & another piece.

I've gone back to making faces from the same mold I used for those I posted here previously.  For this one, I added a back so it can be used as a wall pocket.  I also slashed the top of his head & twisted the strips down so they appear more like hair. 

There is an abundance of May Apples in the woods around our home.  (Did you know that the faeries live under the May Apples?)  Since none was living under this particular leaf, I used it to make my May Apple bowl.  After pressing the leaf into a slab of clay, I cut around it, removed the leaf & draped the clay over a mold.  By pressing the separate "Petals" together I was able to form a very different looking bowl.  Hardly resembles a May Apple leaf any more but I'm real pleased with this piece.



 

I don't know what a May Apple is, but I really like this bowl! What a great idea.

I went into the front yard & took some photos of some May Apples.  The umbrella shaped leaves grow thru out the woods in patches that are about knee high---Don't they look like little Faery villages?  Most of the stems have 2 branches & the little blossom grows at the base of the V.  You can see the apple beginning to grow in the center of the blossom.  It will get to be an inch or so in diameter.  The leaves themselves easily grow to be about a foot across.  I've heard the apples serve some medicinal purpose but don't know what.

My Clay Class instructor is fond of making tiny turtles similar to these except that her shells don't resemble someone's brains.  Since my copycat did, I named him Brainerd.  I spelled it with an E because he also reminds me of a "Nerd".  Nose to tail tip, he's just over 3".





He's cute. I'd like to see his face.

No problem.  I was even able to convince him to smile for you.

Like---very much.

This is so uniquely creative.  I love it!