Dreams, Doubts and Decisions

The Beads and Other Gifts.....

It was a little over a year ago, Dear Readers, that Andy of Dollshouses and Miniatures blog, sent me a gift of some lovely blue and white Chinese porcelain beads, with the hopes that I would be able to use them somehow in the Tree House! He was afraid they were too large to be useful because the Tree House is 1:48 or "Quarter scale" and the beads are about an inch tall. As you can see in the above picture, they instantly found a "Home" on the mantle in The Folly! And at the time I posted about this gift, you could see that Samuel Whiskers and Anna Maria were caught "borrowing" one of the beads!

They told me they had the "perfect" use for such a beautiful item!

But at the time I was working on the Bath Room of the Tree House,

and even I had no idea it would be a whole Year 

before we were ready to test their idea!

But Finally I have started working on the nursery of the Tree House....

And I had to agree with them, the Beads make a Lovely....

Scandinavian Style Porcelain stove!

(Well, I think so at any rate!)

But first I had to build the base with the firebox...

And test the LED "fire".....

Of course the stove is not complete 

without the beads both stacked on the base...

and the base needed painting too.....

Oh, Goodness, Pardon us, Madam Arabella,

We don't mean to intrude!

(She is inspecting the Nursery construction!)

Which Is continuing in Small sections.....

(in between the seemingly endless Photo Shoots 

with my current Cast of Characters and their constant costume changes...

not to mention waiting for the sunlight to cooperate!)

But we are slowly making progress!

But I'll bet you never Dreamed that

the beads would make such a great stove!

And while we are mentioning Dreams....

I must take you back for another installment of Daphne's Story....

(That story that is still so Far from finished...!)

It was already some time ago that Daphne had discovered 

(to her eternal surprise!)

That her Mother was a Witch, and her Father was a Gypsy....

And that he had "stolen" her twin sister shortly after they were born!

This had shaken Daphne's confidence more than she had realized!

Was Everything in her Life a Lie?

Did she have a Father and a Sister alive somewhere...?

Living the Gypsy Life...?

Her Mother had wanted to Put down roots and raise her family in one place...

But she had ended up running in fear almost constantly....

And moving at least as often as the Gypsies would!

Daphne had never known she had a twin sister!

She had always felt so alone...

And she really had been alone!

She now realized she had always wanted to be a part of a larger family!

Somewhere out there she had a Father and a Sister.... and a child....!

But she had no idea what to do about any of it!

Then One Night she had that Dream again......

That Dream where she is standing at a Fountain..... 

and there is a beautiful little girl there too...

And she watches as the child throws her doll into the fountain....

Only This time the child is not standing there....

but is lying deep in the water of the Fountain itself!

The image is so terrifying that Daphne awakes in a sweat...

 Her Heart pounding.....

But suddenly she knew with a certainty what she needed to do!

She had to return to France!

She might not know where to find her Father or her Sister...

But she knew Exactly where she could find her Child!

She was done with running away from her problems!

She knew that she had to go see her daughter....

And Somehow, she would find a way to be a part of her life.

She had been given a gift....

Now she needed to follow her Dreams!

No doubt, Dear Readers, you are weary of being 

left "hanging on the cliff edge..."

and are hoping I will Decide not to leave you here again...

Yet, what can I say but "Dream on...." 

And "Thank you"!

For the gifts... and for Friendship.....

(And comments... I do love comments!)