With a background in the arts, Mikaela has been also known to work on a number of more artistically-minded projects in media including wood, watercolor, and fiber.
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The Day the Saucers Came (cake edition)
A four tier hummingbird cake decorated exclusively with chocolate. This cake took as
its inspiration "The Day the Saucers Came" by Neil Gaiman. It was meant to be 'read' from the top down,
in the same way in you would read the original poem.
The cake was filled with cream cheese custard, iced with a browned buttercream frosting, and covered
with dark, milk, and white chocolate.
Thieving Magpie Necklace
Oak, maple, and cherry with lapiz lazuli
A hand-cut necklace with matching cherry wood drop earrings.
Tyto alba
Watercolor and gouache on paper
Rocket Science Baby Blanket
Superwash Merino wool
Hand-knit in the round, with hand-embroidered details.
Antipuzzle
Mahogany, maple
A hand-cut wood-grain puzzle, designed and built at the start of the Covid-19 lockdown in 2020.
Puzzle Box
Maple and oak
This simple box is built with a twist.
Gingerbread Cabin
A miniature gingerbread house with an almond-shingle roof and red-hot doorknob, presented on a dried blood orange base.
Untitled
Film photography
Space Is Big
(work in progress)
A double-sided scale model of the solar system, rendered in
lace-weight silk/alpaca yarn (held double, double knit).
3D Tic-Tac-Toe
Maple and mahogany
The classic game, now with another dimension