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MR. POKEE This is Mr. Pokee, a four-toed hedgehog. Hedgehogs are happy when they get to run around (Pokee loves to run on the bed) and especially when they get to eat meal worms. A happy hedgehog is relaxed and let’s you easily touch its quills. The happiest Pokee you can get is when it gets belly rubs. Then it closes its eyes and forgets everything around it - no enemies - it’s in peace with the world. (Talitha Girnus) 🎨 26 x 19 mm watercolor miniature. 🔎 originals, prints & commissions @ woodcastles.de

DIMENSIONS I love storytelling, travelogues and imaginary journeys to be part of my tiny paintings. These were inspired by M.C. Escher’s Möbius strip and a photoshop work by Jack Usephot. You can find all DIMENSION-subjects in the category LANDSCAPES on my website - as originals and prints. Just scroll down a bit and be inspired ☺︎ woodcastles.de/en/miniatures/landscapes

KÄSEHÜTTE The “Käsehütte” (cheesehut) is a very special place on our local Christmas market - famous for their delicate raclette and incredibly good hot wine punch. And … they host the one and only cheese-chess-world-championship♙ 🎨 29 x 29 mm watercolor miniature. 🔎 choose your originals, prints & commissions @ woodcastles.de

BESTIE My bestie is Envy. My bestie is Zain. We’re both rescue Border Collies loving life with Kelly @kelly_bove in Pennsylvania. See you on the flipside ☺︎ 🎨 29 x 28 mm watercolor miniature. 🔎 choose your originals, prints & commissions @ woodcastles.de

HOLLY When Winter comes and covers all With snow flakes after Fall The Snow Fairies come out with their tools And paint the world for me an you They hold tiny brushes filled with red paint The new holly berries with the red they taint The cute little fairies can not be seen They’re white as the snow that covers the green. (pattyann4500) 🎨 27 x 27 mm watercolor miniature. 🔎 choose your originals, prints & commissions @ woodcastles.de

DEMIGUISE Creatures such as the Demiguise have their own highly effective means of camouflage and no intervention by the Ministry of Magic has ever been necessary on their behalf. The Demiguise is found in the Far East, though only with great difficulty, for this beast is able to make itself invisible when threatened, and can only be seen by wizards skilled in its capture. 🎨 21 x 27 mm watercolor miniature. 🔎 choose your originals, prints & commissions @ woodcastles.de

FOREST SNOW Each flake so light it is not felt Only cold announces its presence. Pines and firs extend their limbs to capture whiteness. Night passes in silence as each flake adds its microscopic weight until boughs bend urging their burdens to slide off, relieve the stress. There is a groaning in the forest, and here and there a sudden whoosh as the white weight drops off. The limb snaps up, shrugs. As the rising sun brightens the morning, each tree becomes adorned with diamonds. Breezes move the boughs and like princesses in ball gowns, trees shake their skirts, softly scatter wealth. (Alice E. Johansen) 🎨 27 x 27 mm watercolor miniature. 🔎 choose your originals, prints & commissions @ woodcastles.de

CORMORANT Cormorants are excellent fisherbirds, in fact they are so good at catching fish that cormorant species in Asia have been trained to catch fish for people. For every seven fish they catch, the cormorant gets to eat one. 🎨 29 x 21 mm watercolor miniature. 🔎choose your originals, prints & commissions @ woodcastles.de