Rachael Garcia spoke to HuffPost Weird about her full set of real (dead) mice, adorned in armor and royal garb.

“I started to build a chess set once in high school out of clay, and told myself I was never going to learn how to play chess until I built a whole set,” Garcia said.

After picking up taxidermy, Garcia decided to make the weirdest chess set she could. She said it took her about 30 days, working two to three hours each day, to make her mouseketeers.

On her Etsy page, Garcia notes that the mice were taken from a captive breeding facility that distributes frozen rodents to feed reptile.

This may well be one of the most awesome things ever invented. I can only imagine The Bloggess is aware of this, with her love of strange (read, “awesome”) taxidermy.

The Curious13 on Etsy via Huffington Post.