Tiles And More Than Tiles...

No More Tiles!

I must warn you, Dear Readers, that I Hate to destroy Illusions.... but I fear I Must! The Lovely floor of the Tree House Bath that Looks so much like a Deep Blue Pool of Water is an Illusion... for Both us and the Rats! Or else they would be unable to move in that room without being in the water... the pool takes up so much room! (And it IS inside a Tree after all!!!) But perhaps we can compensate you by adding to this Illusion... by making the Bath Tub out of a Wonderful boat shaped shell... and Pretending that it floats on the lovely pool of water! I must confess that I have Always wanted to make a mini bathtub out of a seashell! 

                                               And this one has such a Gorgeous shape!

As you can see here, I added a tiny shell to the top edge to be a soap dish.....

And I added a tiny metal ring for the drain.....

And glued it to the little metal tray to form a base that was less tippy!

I have not yet glued it in place....

 

But the idea is that we Pretend it is a Boat upon a tiny pool....!

And while we are doing that, I have also managed to complete the tiling of all the walls!

As I mentioned before, I was concerned about having enough tiles... 

and so I was trying to carefully plan and piece together the parts for each wall.

The walls with the doorways were fairly straight forward with the large pieces of Abalone shell.

The fireplace wall was the first one finished and really set the tone for the room.

The remaining two walls each had their challenges.

The side wall had what I call the "Moon Window" high up at the top of the wall....

Using one of my "Found" marbles for the glass....

And an intricate piece of Abalone shell jewelry with silver vining surrounding it....

Two of the remaining abalone shell tiles fit at the bottom....

(the white tile is really a filler as it is barely visible from the opening of the room)

And I had to fill the gaps between and try to make it fit the overall pattern!

I used the last of the tiny blue tiles and almost all the black ones to frame the window...

And fitted the rest of the space with the gray tiles.

I was trying to make the gray tiles run across the upper part of each wall...

And a row of the white ones at the very top.....

And wasn't at all sure I would have enough!

Here you can see all the walls, except the fireplace wall...

And for the Front Opening Door Wall..... with the circular "Sun" Window...

(which you can see on the right) I used the last three pieces of Abalone shell tiles..

And the last of the gold tiles to frame the "Sun" window.

Then I decided to balance this wall with the others and add more scallop shells...

This exterior door has to be carefully fitted because the tiled surface 

has to fit within the frame of the opening to the room or the door won't close properly!

Here you can see the rest of the tiles added to this door....

Along with a "Shell-f" at the window ledge!

I also tucked a few pearls into the gaps!

And here you can see it attached to the Tree House....

I painted the undecorated part of the inside of the door with silver paint...

And added a couple more pearls to gaps....

It is difficult to photograph with all the walls in place...

I also added tiny shells to the doors for doorknobs....

So how many tiles did I have left over when the floors and walls were done?

NONE!

Can you believe it?

(I can't believe my luck!!!)

So now that the walls and floors are done... 

I have started on the Fixtures...

And even though I must destroy your illusions,

I hope you will get used to the idea of the beautiful Shell boat..

Floating on the still blue waters....!

And In a completely Other World Not too far away...

Blue went to visit the Chapel in the Castle Dollhouse...

where Father Alban has been painting....( or is he just Daydreaming!)

For the Longest time!

She wanted to see what all the fuss was about....

She thinks the painting is just Perfect as it is....

And thinks Father Alban just needs a little "Forgetting spell"

To forget what he thought might still be needed!

He thinks there is one sure way to tell if it is done.....

So he carries it to the Altar.....

And sets it in place.....

Yes... It is Perfect!

And Blue made sure to cast a spell of Safe Travel on it....

It is headed out on a voyage across the oceans!

And because Blue thought this painting things looks like Fun.....

She has set up some more blanks all ready to go...!!!

So while there might be no more Tiles....

There was a lot more than just tiles that got done this week!