Three of these shy flower fairy creatures are now available on my Etsy shop, "milkweed way!" 🌷🐈 💐
They're called shrinking violets - little cats with petals for ears, and a drawstring you can pull to close their petals over their face. I'm hoping to make a series in the future but for now this is the only member - they're all completely handmade and hand-embroidered, so there's only 3 available!
This one is named Violet (they/them). They're based on the flower heartsease (Viola tricolor) and they're ~nonbinary colored~ (wow!)
Again you can check them out here, but genuinely, thanks so much for reading either way!!! ( / ^ _^)/ ~♥
(bonus under the cut :P)
This is the plush I made when I was ~9 years old that inspired these guys. His name was "Danderlion." I like to think I've improved.
Hence I have very little doubt, that if the whole genus of humble-bees became extinct or very rare in England, the heartsease and red clover would become very rare, or wholly disappear.
"On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life" - Charles Darwin