Thumbs - Laurie Ceesay Landree - "Thumbelina"

This is my entry in the Thumbs Challenge. It was a difficult challenge because I knew what I didn’t want but not sure what to actually do. I remembered the Hans Christian Andersen children’s book Thumbelina about a make believe miniature woman who lives amongst flowers and critters. I assume she was the size of the thumb. There was a song my daughter and I used to sing and we’d move our thumbs around like they were dancing.

To me my goal was to have things in proportion-a tiny woman figure living on a very large scale flower. I went through my large scale fabric stash for the biggest flowers and I found a butterfly also. I fussy cut and fused these flowers to the background. Then I found the little 2” preprinted woman. I placed her as if she was standing on the pedals of the flower.

I added a tiny green iridescent skirt, some little flowers in her hair and the rest of her got glittered! Nothing else was embellished to draw attention to Thumbelina.