Matthew 19:24

"Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of

a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven."

Breathe in - Willard Wigan MBE knows the camel trick .........

Willard was born in Birmingham in 1957 and almost from birth he had a

penchant for creating tiny things.  When he was five he entered the property

market building affordable homes for ants.  But did he stop there?

No of course not - he made them all hats and shoes too.  Well he would,

wouldn't he?

The four seasons

Things have moved on just a tad from those days and now this fully

fledged micro-sculptor has gone beyond visibility with the naked eye and

has entered the realms of microscopy.  To enable him to work at this

intense magnification Willard slows his heartbeat through meditation

thus reducing hand tremors then with the aid of tweezers he

sculpts between heart beats.

Thank goodness Alice survived

During a recent appearance on The One Show he admitted to accidentally

inhaling Alice in Wonderland when he got too close to his work and

breathed in at the wrong moment.  I bet Alice thought 

"Here we go again ......"

Willard's work has been described at the eighth wonder of the world

and his patrons include HRH Prince Charles, Sir Elton John, Mike Tyson

and Simon Cowell.

Probably Willard's most prestigeous commission to date is the minute

Coronation Crown requested by HRH Queen Elizabeth II to mark her

Diamond Jubilee.  However no mention was ever officially made

of a teeny tiny pack of Welsh Corgis!

Bird on a wire

Now I must get on with my sewing if I can ever manage to thread my

needle.  It seems to be blocked by something.

How wonderful if it was a tiny wee Long Dog.

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