Welcome to CelticCarver Gallery 3

This gallery features some of the Homes of the Wee People I have carved over the last half-dozen years. Many were carved for various W3E programs. They are my interpretation of the whimsical house made popular by Rick Jensen, which I first discovered when reviewing Carving Found Wood by Vic Hood and Jack A. Williams.

Many of these are carved from locally collected cottonwood bark. The bark here in SW Michigan is generally smaller and thinner compared to the excellent bark that comes from the northern states in the central tier. This small, thinner bark presents challenges and more often then not splits along the major bark fissures during carving, requiring a light hand and sometimes careful repairs. The more frequent deep horizontal and vertical fissures, however, lend themselves to establishment of different housing styles in the same carving.

These are the Wee Homes of the Wee People that inhabit the shady corners of forests and fields in those portions of the world inhabited by the Big Peoples of Celtic descent. 

Some Wee Homes are small cottages, while others are taller with many rooms and watch towers.   The homes are make of stone and brick,  timber and stucco, or whatever native materials are handy.   They tend to blend into the natural background, and even the metallic roofs that are common on Wee Homes are difficult for Big People to see.

The Wee Homes have large windows, to let in air and sunlight.  They almost always have a concealed door or two tucked away behind some rock or root,  so a quick exit may be made on those rare occasions that a Big Person actually finds one of the Wee Homes.

W.M. Kelley - Homes of the Wee People © 2010.

Wee Homes Gallery

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