Gilding The Lily....

Or Rather The Vine.....

Garden Season is upon us, Dear Readers, so once again, much of my Time over the weekend was consumed by my RL Garden. Hard work digging more beds and uprooting a thousand tiny baby Tree Seedlings... but so worth it in the end! And thus my mind is preoccupied by Flowers and plants and Growing Things... so is it any wonder that it overflows into my Mini World? To begin with, I added another flower to the Tiny stitching on the bed curtains.....

It is very difficult to get a close-enough shot of this.... 

I put the thimble in for size reference...

(You can poke the pictures to enlarge them...)

I dug out my lighted magnifier to stitch with and it helped speed the process!

But there is still a long way to go....

 

And you may recall that I said the Domed ceiling for the Bedroom was not yet done...

Well, I was not at all satisfied with the central panel decoration.... 

So I started over.... 

(only the central panel!)

 

 Even though it is inverted from the other panels (they are sunken and it protrudes)...

I felt they needed to look more similar... 

so I cut an octagonal frame section and painted it gold 

and outlined it with the golden "roping"...

 

And added a single inverted flower "Bosse" in the center.

That looks Much more like what I wanted!

But we are not done, Dear Readers... 

At this point I had to make another one of those Difficult Decisions....

To stop here and always wonder if my idea would have been a good one....

or to go one step further and just trust it would be what I imagined....

I had to give it a try... 

 

I am not a big fan of Straight lines...

I LOVE the sinuous shapes of vines, and I Love my gardens a little over-gown and wild....

and had imagined the sections of the coffered ceiling as if they were carved with vines...

I had to glue them in place to even see how they would look....

(Because they kept falling off when I tried using tape...!)

And we had to test it in place....

 

 

It gives a sense of the effect... and since I have started.... 

I must glue them All in place... 

Oh, My! NOW we are getting there!!!

 

And can we see it in place now?

This is NOT easy to photograph!!!

But you can get a sense of the Vines growing overhead....

As if they were continued from the walls.....

Only Gilded instead of painted.....

 

Maybe a little closer...?

That is Much more like I was Imagining!

The ceiling is Nearly Done now....!

And while Some of you might think it is Definitely Over Done.... 

I think I made the Right decision this time....

Gilding the Lily...or rather the Vine!