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Pearl is a needle felted soft sculpture made using natural white and grey Himalayan wool sourced from Dunda Village, Harsil Valley in Uttarakhand, India and dyed New Zealand Corriedale wool. Her eyes are glass and her feet and beak are wire wrapped with thread.

a new pigeon is in the works!

I went back and forth with whether to repeat my sculpture designs (for commissions) or not before realising that I’m terrible at copying myself and can basically never make exact copies.

Stuart the Log is the last of my texture series. He is a soft sculpture made with wet and needle felted natural brown and plant-dyed Himalayan wool. His legs are wire wrapped with wool and his eyes are glass.

All wool shades on him have been plant dyed by me using Marigold, Onion and Eucalyptus modified with iron.

Dimensions: 6x5x4 inches | Price: $145 USD (incl shipping)

Meet Bobby! He’s a needle felted soft sculpture made with Himalayan wool from Harsil Valley, Uttarakhand, India. Wool hand-dyed with Sappanwood and Marigold flowers by me.

Dimensions: 6x6x5 inches

Price: $130 USD (including shipping 🌏)

He’s a bog dweller and the realisation of all my goblincore dreams. Named for Shakespeare’s Caliban from The Tempest. He’s an odorous cloud.

Caliban is a needle felted soft sculpture made using natural grey and Marigold dyed Himalayan wool sourced from Harsil Valley in Uttarakhand, India.

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Price: $145 (incl shipping)

🥀 Mr Spike! 🥀

Mr. Spike! is made with natural brown, white and plant dyed pink Harsil Cross wool, sourced from Dunda Village in Harsil Valley, Uttrakhand, India. His eyes are made of glass, and legs are made of wool covered wire.

He is the first of the Texture Creechers, made with three shades of Sappanwood dyed wool, and is reminiscent of a rose bush. Although I have treated my previous sculptures like precious pieces, best left on a shelf, Mr Spike! is meant to be touched, poked, prodded and caressed.

Dimensions: 6.5x5x4 inches

Price: $130 USD (incl 🌏 shipping)

I’m fighting hate with doodles.

I made another gorgeous lamp!

For those wondering, this is wet felted with natural white and dyed (yellow marigold) Harsil Cross wool sourced from Harsil Valley, Uttarakhand.

Everything used:

1. Wool

2. Cut up mailer bag for resist

3. Craft Glue

4. Tricolour Bulb and wire

5. Soap, bubble wrap and hot water for felting

6. Balloons for shaping

That's it! However, this one was tougher than my last one, which only had one bubble. It's 8 shaped (like a peanut) because my birthday falls on the 8th of October (erstwhile 8th month).

Meet 🐦Sky the Pigeon🐦

Sky is a needle felted soft sculpture made with natural white sheep's wool sourced from the Jad Bhotia Community of Harsil Valley, Uttarakhand, India and dyed New Zealand Corriedale wool.

Sky reminds me of the sky (duh). She's got a lightness to her, a pep in her step, and her plumage is like a cloudy spring day. She's also a to-be-mother, and soon she'll be anchoring down on earth to prepare for her kids' imminent arrival (as soon as she can find them).

Price: $130 USD (incl. 🌏 shipping)

Dimensions: 6x4x4 inches

Meet Rosie, the Messenger Princess. Currently, she’s doing her daily rounds, carrying documents from one corner of the city to another. She’s a friendly neighbourhood mail-lady who takes her job very seriously.

Rosie is made using natural grey and plant dyed (Sappanwood) wool sourced from the Jad Bhotia Community of Harsil Valley, Uttarakhand, India and dyed New Zealand Corriedale Wool.

Her feet and beak are thread and wire, and eyes are glass (and her mail is paper).

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Size: 6x4x4 inches

Lover Boy is a needle felted soft sculpture made with natural grey sheep's wool sourced from Dunda Village in Harsil Valley, Uttarakhand, India and coloured New Zealand Corriedale wool.

He is named Lover Boy as all pigeons are lovers at heart - lovers of people, food, urban civilisation and one another.

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🐦 Pipeline the Pigeon 🐦

Pipeline is a needle felted soft sculpture made using natural grey wool sourced from the Jad Bhotia Community of Harsil Valley, Uttarakhand in India, and New Zealand Corriedale Wool. In addition to his wool body, his feet and beak are made using wire armature and painted cotton thread and his eyes are glass beads.

He is named for a pigeon I knew, who nested behind a sewer pipe next to a bedroom window on the fourth floor of an apartment building. His constant cooing bothered everyone but they could do nothing about it, as he was unbothered by verbal threats and beyond the reach of brooms and other implements. I've always liked pigeons because they always seem to want to be near us.

This was my first time trying to incorporate a bit of storytelling through sculptures and have something like an overarching theme, instead making creatures based on vibes alone.

The first one, She Loves Me Not, is about overthinking and rejection.

The second, I’m Doing Great, Actually! is a defensive reaction towards feeling hurt.

The third, Hello Old Flame, is a moment of nostalgic reminiscence of past selves.

This final one, Cherie Blossoms, is all about renewal, moving on and life’s springtime.

Cherie Blossoms is a needle felted soft sculpture made with natural brown and plant dyed Himalayan wool sourced from the Jad Bhotia Community of Harsil Valley in Uttarakhand, India.