Jewel: Fairy Queen of Joy

I just completed (almost completed) my third Fairy Queen. Her name is Jewel. My other two Fairies are holding things in their hands, Jewel is not, so perhaps she isn't really finished.

In the photo, her dress and hair seem to be distinctively different shades of blue, but actually the turquoise hair is almost the same as her dress which is photographing blue rather than turquoise.

As with the other two fairies, she has a needle-felted head, arms, and upper torso. Her gown is designed over a styrofoam cone. All three fairies' gowns are made from craft felt which I just learned is made in the USA of eco-fi polyester made from recycled post-consumer plastic bottles! Pays to read the labels!

Nefertiti                                         Jewel                                            Uno
Fairy Queen of Strength                  Fairy Queen of Joy                    Fairy Queen of Truth
 

March of the Fairy Queens

Pacifica: A Mermaid of the Pacific Ocean

Here is my second mermaid- Pacifica.  I used my same pattern as Pearl (Atlantic Mermaid). Pacifica has a needle felted head with a Styrofoam armature, a stuffed fabric torso and tail and needle felted arms. Her torso has a needle felted overlay. Her hair is hand-spun dyed wool with a metallic thread interwoven. Her headpiece is painted lace. The fabric of her tail has a fish tessellation on it.
Here she is:

Shell in her Hand

Water Droplets on her Tail

Pacifica
Pacific Ocean Mermaid

Pearl
Atlantic Ocean Mermaid

I did change the cut of the top of her tail and added side flukes to Pacifica but otherwise they are the same pattern.
I like to put these wall dolls on interior doors as well as walls. Very inviting.

I have now made 6 wall dolls. Four are elf creatures and two mermaids. The weird thing is all their names start with the letter P which was not  initially planned, but now I seem committed.  They are: Periwinkle, Pansy, Pebbles, Paper Crane and Pearl all named after whatever they are holding in their hands. Pacifica is holding a pearl just like Pearl, so to distinguish between the two she is called Pacifica because of her golden sunny color scheme  in contrast to Pearl's cold blue. I have plans for one more mermaid from the Arctic Ocean. She would naturally be called Polar. It just never ends! At least the mermaids are pretty creatures unlike my little dwarves!