This week lots of red mushrooms started sprouting on my work table. Despite the constant showers outside the motive for this sprouting had more to do with some fungi I saw near Loch Lomond when I was in the Highlands. I tried to identify it and although I am not sure, it resembles an amanita muscaria also known as a toadstool. Either way, I found it charming and it was the perfect excuse to create some specimens out of polymer clay… they came out as beads, post earrings, brooches, pendants and magnets and I think they will match perfectly with the woodland creatures. I hope you enjoy them!

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Esta semana começou a crescer uma imensidão de cogumelos na minha mesa de trabalho. Apesar dos contantes aguaceiros lá fora, a razão desta erupção teve mais a ver com um tipo de fungo que encontrei perto do Loch Lomond quando estive nas Highlands. Tentei identificá-lo e, apesar de não ter a certeza, é semelhante a um amanita muscaria também conhecido como mata-moscas. De qualquer forma, achei-o encantador e foi a desculpa perfeita para criar alguns espécimes com massa polimérica… cresceram em forma de contas, brincos, pregadeiras, imanes e pendentes e acho que vão combinar muito bem com as criaturas do bosque. Espero que gostem!

Red Cap Mushrooms: a. The specimen that originated the story; b. Playing with image edition; c. Mushrooms in my hand

Polymer clay mushrooms that came alive in my work space