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Coaxing chicks to follow her
She now quickly takes the lead
Pecking people who are close
She's not sorry to impede

As she sings her happy songs
Her babies stay close to her
In her eyes she is the best
Not caring if others stir

She loves all her chicks with pride
she is always very proud
Of her too cute chirping crew
She's kept them safe as she vowed

Raising ten is a handful
But she knows she can do it
She's perfectly productive
And will teach them bit by bit

Under Anything but the Sky (story)

Helen Mifford, the mother of Mel Mifford, was once again in the tiny kitchen of a three bedroom ranch home. She stirred the pancake batter with a whisk and a sharp twist of her wrist, making a rasping sound against the metal rim of the bowl. The batter was soon poured onto the griddle, sizzling due to the grease still present from the previous round of bacon. Helen wiped her hands on her old tattered apron. A rooster called out to the hens from the picket fence outside. A red-head with bright eyes came inside from the back door. Dirt traveled onto the floor of the room, ignoring the place mat on the doorstep. A deep sigh came from the kitch

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Black Rooster Zodiacby ~yingmakes

Contests / 2012 / deviantART 12th Birthday / Chinese Horoscope Contest / Team Rooster

What? A Black Rooster standing on some money.

Details: ~6cm tall. Sculpted with polymer clay, painted with acrylics and glazed.

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Done for the DeviantArt 12th Bday contest.

The prompt said to do your zodiac animal or something along those lines, so I decided to choose a Rooster, which is what I think the contest called my year animal or something. The day animal and month animal stuff seems a bit superfluous imo.

I decided to do a black rooster because when I used a Chinese Astrology site that was listed under the contest they described me as a Black Rooster, which I guess is kind of fitting.
From Google, a rooster is supposedly confident, pompous and motivated person. I guess that describes me, it would be nice if one day I could confidently and pompously stand on a pile of cash, haha. WE'LL SEE.

The DA contest says Roosters are protective, courageous etc. But I think I relate more to the negative rooster traits, haha, such as being impatient and blunt. oh well.

It was a bit scary making a rooster at first but I'm actually pretty happy with how it turned out. I tried to make the Rooster look like it was proud of standing on the money, like it was protective of it or super proud of getting all that money. What a greedy rooster!

The eyes are actually little gem crystal things, and it's not painted pure black. There are many different shades of black, but the camera didn't pick that up. >_<

I only uploaded one view of it to DA this time because it's for a contest, don't worry, I haven't forsaken DA for tumblr.

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Tumblr: [link] <-- I uploaded more views here.

!LostInAPhotograph Sep 1, 2012

Ooh, awesome!

~yingmakes Sep 1, 2012 Hobbyist Artisan Crafter

Glad you like it. ^_^ What's your zodiac sign??

!LostInAPhotograph Sep 2, 2012

I'm a dog.

You?

~yingmakes Sep 4, 2012 Hobbyist Artisan Crafter

Rooster!

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