Clouds.......

Illusions I Recall.....

By Now you must be aware, Dear Readers, just how much I enjoy it when the Sun shines into my little Mini Worlds! So it was that on Saturday morning early I was able to catch the Sun shining briefly on the Cloud Palace before the day advanced and became cloudy and snowy! Here on Terra Firma we are vulnerable to the moods of the Clouds, but in the Cloud Palace (when it is completed, you understand) it will be sailing On top of the Clouds... and therefore should be able to expect an Endless supply of sunshine! But until it is completed, I will have to take my luck with the sunlight.... and so I have grabbed the moment to take some pictures....

Can you see how the sunlight casts a lacy shadow 

through the pattern on the window pane?

And since it is morning, Blue has set out the tea and cupcakes....

 

 

She is expecting some Visitors soon.... 

and she wants to be ready!

But since they are traveling from a Long Way Away....

She has to be very patient....

This morning she has to eat the cupcakes by herself.....

Because the Palace is still being worked on.... 

there are more paintings to be done...

So everything has to be cleared away and the room taken apart....!

Here you can see the beginnings of a pair of 

low planters to sit under the windows.

Here we have to test them in place again.... 

and you can also see the added clouds at the top of the walls....

I didn't want the Clouds to appear to end at the corner of the wall....

It is just an illusion... but I wanted to create more depth...

It needs more work before it will look right.

And since none of the parts can be glued in place in this house 

until I have completed the decorative parts, I also made a start on the upstairs!

It is really just a little space under the eaves....

But I wanted it to look as though you were sleeping on top of the clouds!

And because I wasn't done with the planters....

I painted one with another Dragon........

And the other with another Lake and Teahouse scene!

And then I had to add some butterflies....

Because there was a Lovely quote on Birgit's Blog...

by Novalis who wrote (something like this...)

 "He who can hear the butterflies laugh knows how the clouds taste...."

Which caused Flutterbeary to say that 

"Butterflies are always giggling and the clouds taste sweet...!"

Which caused me to think we needed some Laughing Butterflies here in the Cloud Palace!

And then we need to see how they look all together....

The giggling butterflies....

The dragon planter.....

The teahouse planter.....

I still am not sure what plants to plant in them...!

And the Clouds in the sky overhead.....

still in need of some softening around the edges.....

 

And the Clouds in the attic.....

And the whole room.......

And the whole house.....

So you can see, Dear Readers,

I have been painting....

 But its Just the Clouds Illusions After all.....

Oh, wait.... can you hear the butterflies laughing?