New Year

Happy Wishes.....

Well, Dear Readers, Another year has almost gone.... Where Did it Go??? And What did I get done this year? These are questions I have been pondering recently, and I have No answer for Where it went! As for What got done.... the answer is Not Much in the way of building or making minis! But in retrospect, I think I will have to declare it the "Year of The Cloud Palace!" Between the arrival of three new Fairy Bear residents last Winter, necessitating the construction of an additional Tower for the Palace, and then the arrival in the Summer of the Visiting Fairy Bears who were on their way to my sister's Hope Cottage, it seems as though the Fairy Bears and the Cloud Palace Adventures filled nearly all the blog and Mini-making Time! And what Adventures they were! (Let me assure you that this is not a bad thing!) And along the way there were a few delightful creations....

Like the Cloud bed for Sweet Pea which is tucked into the gable of the Cloud Palace....

And the one for Blue in the Lookout Tower.....

(Alas, Lady Lavender's is still not finished...)

And the Kitchen got an additional oven 

so that Hamish Harry could bake delicacies for the Bearys.

As well as being stocked with some essentials!

The Guard Tower itself is still far from finished!

 

As for Other Projects.....

The Willowcrest saw a burst of effort on the windows 

early in the Summer.....

but still is waiting for a great many details to be done 

before I can even attach the walls!

This picture is from before the windows were glued in....

but the house is "assembled" but not glued together!

And The Castle Great Hall Ceiling 

got a tiny bit of painting added in the Summer...

Starting the border with the everyday people below the Saints....

But that seems to have been the last work done on the Castle Hall!

Still a Long way from finished....

Oh, those Patient, patient Saints!

And Waaayyy back in the Spring there was a flurry of tiny flowers...

Really Really Tiny flowers.... and not many of them either!

Like this Squill that popped up in the cracks beside the Conservatory...

And the snowdrops too!

But I did not get any more work done on the Conservatory foundation.

And Nothing at all got done on Rose Thorne Cottage or The Folly.... 

or the Tree House!

Could it Really be a whole year and more since I worked on the Tree House?

(I am really wanting to continue with the Tree House!)

So, Dear Readers, I Wish to get more Construction done this year!

I don't know how I will accomplish that...

but I am Hoping that I will be a little more organized.... 

and a little less distracted by RL challenges!

Maybe I will even make better progress with the Stories 

that you are so Patiently waiting for...

Daphne and Renee have So much to say!

 

But Before I leave you, Dear Readers, 

I Wish to show you my Christmas Card for this year.... 

(Mom, don't look if your card has not arrived yet!)

It took a great many hours of painting!

It is watercolor and pen and ink.

The size is 8 and 1/2 inches by 11 inches.

It is a memory of a Christmas from my childhood, 

surrounded by vignettes from the current year 

inside the letter "U" which makes the frame.

Remember to poke the picture to see it larger!

I Wish it was not so Late in being finished....!

So Dear Readers, With that I close another year 

and Wish you All

a Wonderful and Happy and Productive New Year!