Scattered....!

And a Little Over The Top!

I am Running Late this week, Dear Readers, and I have no-one to blame but Myself! The Upheaval in my work room with the moving of the houses and the coming and going of Guests has left me feeling Very Scattered and not a Little Lost. So I hope you don't mind if Nothing makes much sense this week. But I did think you would want to see a Glimpse of the current Story...( the one where the Sister Bearys Buttercup and Marmalade are searching for the Cloud Palace...) even though it too seems to be a digression! You might recall that Perry, the brother of the Little Dreamers, was nowhere to be found when the Sister Bearys arrived at Rose Thorn Cottage on Distant Briar Moor. Prudence had thought he might be out chasing butterflies on the Moor, and indeed he was. It was one of his very Favorite things to do! He had quite a collection of butterflies all pinned and mounted in little boxes.... his Uncle Carson had showed him how to preserve them. He was always on the lookout for new and unusual specimens.

This day he had spotted a rather unusual looking one 

and was chasing as fast as he could...

It had a particularly glittery silver color to its wings

 that he had never seen before..

He really wanted a closer look at this one!

But catching a moving object in a net is harder than it looks....

But if you swish just right....

You can catch them!

Perry was really quite surprised when he heard a tiny voice....

"It wasn't me...!" it said.

"I didn't take it....!"

"I don't know anything about it...!"

Perry carried the little creature back to the Cottage 

and put him in a jar.

This was going to require further study.....

He wasn't entirely sure.....

But he thought he had caught a Tiny Fairy!

The Little fellow kept calling out "It wasn't me!"

But Perry had No idea what he was talking about!

And another little detail that is needing an update....

Who will find the Picnic basket?

Just How long does an Abandoned Picnic Basket

remain alone in a meadow?

Not long at all, it turns out!

Hamish Harry "Hotcakes" McCloud was out on 

his trusty Cloud Cycle when he spotted the basket down below...

He had to stop and investigate!

He decided it needed to come home with him....

there were plenty of hungry Bearys at the Cloud Palace these days...

And more expected any day now...

He would take all the provisions he could find!

And lest you think I have been doing Nothing at all, Dear Readers,

I will show you the progress I have been making 

on the bed for Lady Lavender....

In all the upheaval in my workroom, 

I found the right beads for making 

the arched framework for the canopy over the bed.

So I re-worked the frame and started on the upholstery for the bed.

Lady Lavender had wanted the bed to be made of 

brocade and lace.....

(She Loves lace!)

So I added a lace skirt..... 

so the bed looks as though it is floating.....

Lady Lavender came to have a look while I was testing the 

gauzy canopy fabric......

She is hoping there will be a little more lace...?

Well, Dear Readers, I had to add some 

to the top edge of the bed!

And with a silver spangled lavender colored netting 

for a canopy......

To resemble the stars in the sky above...

But by now it is so late it is too dark to see well....

But in the morning light we can see all that lace...

 and the glittery spangled canopy.....

Yes, Dear Readers, it is Scattered

All over the top!