“I (cry). It took my breath away,” said Carol Bryant, about (open) the (pack) Francis sent her.

Inside was a tiny sculpture of a dog, a replica of Bryant’s (love)pet, a cocker spaniel (name) Brandy Noel who had (recent) (die).

“It’s like she took my dog and shrunk it down,” said Bryant, a pet (blog) from Pennsylvania, the United States. “It’s like a (memory) to her.”

That’s how Francis has been (make) a (live) for the past 20 (year), (create) three-dimensional, pocket-size (portrait) of dead but not (forgot) family (pet).

The Hastings (art) (lucyfrancisminiatures.com) (combine) (piece) of fur and fibre, wool and wire, and (end) up with a (mini), (fuzz) model of a dog, often (corporate) (bit) of the dog’s hair.

That way the (grieve) dog (own) can “feel like they still have a little bit of them there,” Francis said.

Francis (charge) US$300 (RM1,243) to US$2,400 (RM9,940) for the custom (sculpture), (depend) on the size and (complex). Demand is strong. She’s sent her dog (sculpture
) to 17 (country), from Japan to South Africa. One customer was a sheikh from Qatar who (collect) (mini).

She’s (current) (work) on an order of several dogs for a (custom) in Portugal.

She’s made (mini) of some (celeb) (pet), (includ) (dog) (own) by Martha Stewart, Shirley MacLaine and John Prine.

At her home, where she (live) with a Cairn Terrier (name) Bob and a Chihuahua Terrier mix (name) Fred, Francis has shoe (box) (fill) with plastic zip-top (bag) (contain) (tuft) of hair sent in by dog (own) to be (use) in (mini).

One is (label) “Merlin left side neck/rough.” Another (read), “Lexie (ear), (leg).”

“The real fur is (real) important to most of the (own),” Francis said. “Many of them want it back (cause) it’s treasure for them.”

She also (use) (bit) of alpaca fur, camel hair, silk, cashmere and leather to make the (mini), (base) the (model) on (photograph) of the real (dog).

Her (custom) say she can somehow capture the essence of their (animal) in a (fuzz) (figure) just a few (inch) tall.

“Their (face) (express) are perfect. Their (pose) are perfect,” said Judy Ersery, of Bloomington, Illinois, who had Francis duplicate her Brussels Griffon (name) Bentley and her Maltese (name) Daphne.

The small (version) of Bentley and Daphne are (curl) up in a little dog bed in a scale-model room, just as they did in real life.

“It’s (comfort),” Ersery said.

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