Gypsy Wagon Sleeping Compartments...

Of What Do You Dream....?

It was That weekend, Dear Readers, which signals the beginning of Summer in so many ways, but in my house the most noteworthy way is the removal of my Houseplants to the porch for the Summer! This frees up the space in front of the windows for the Dollshouses which have spent the Winter perched on chairs and pushed into inconvenient corners. I got the plants all moved on Saturday, and even tackled a bit of window cleaning (I can't say how long it's been since I got that chore done!) and even moved the Conservatory onto the shelves in front of the sunny window. Then I moved the Gypsy Wagon from it's hibernation spot and set it on the shelf in front of the window.... and suddenly I needed to just take care of a few of those little steps that had been floating around in my mind for a while. You might remember that I had realized that none of the Wagon's walls could be completed on the outside, or attached to the base, before the interior was completed! And it was way last Summer that I had painted the walls of the sleeping compartment of the Tinker's Wagon.... with the horses in the meadow.... but the rest of the interior remained the very dark brown color I had stained all the walls. It needed color! And certainly before I could complete the sleeping area, I needed to complete the lower area, the space under the bed nook, the space where the Gypsy children sleep when they are little. And so I took the wagon apart and added paint to those interior walls. Fiery Cinnamon orange walls for the main compartment and brilliant yellow walls for the children's sleeping nook. Don't worry, once the other furnishings are all added, the color will be quite muted and hardly visible!

And then the yellow sleeping area

 needed sky blue for the ceiling

 and misty green added for the meadow....

Of course, it was a very rainy and gloomy day on Sunday....

 it was so dark inside.... 

you could barely see inside that nook 

even with the spotlight shining in...

but it made me dream of golden meadows and blue sky above....

And with the fourth wall in place you can see nothing inside....

But I am imagining the child.... 

and when asked what she sees in her meadow...

She says "chickens"! 

And "bunnies"!

So I have hastily painted a few chickens and bunnies

 on the walls of this lower compartment...

(reasoning that if her Father is the painter

 he will not spend too much time

 painting in there lying on his belly....!)

The wall on the right has a bunny....

The back wall has a bunny and a hen....

And the wall to the left has a hen with three chicks under her wings.

And of course, the meadow is filled with poppies too...

And then, because I thought something more was needed...

I added a couple of tiny clouds and a rainbow...

Because every child should have 

rainbows to chase in their Dreams!

Then I had to prop the walls together

 to see how the compartment would look from below, 

with the ceiling in place...

Can you imagine lying in the meadow

 and looking up to the summer sky....?

And seeing a rainbow sparkling in the dew....?

And with a mattress and pillow too.....

And with the "ceiling" in place..... how dark it becomes.....

What if there is a lantern......?

Is it still too dark....?

Will the rainbow be visible at all.....?

Alas, Dear Readers, I think we all know

 that this is one of those things that

 will not be visible at all when the Wagon is done..... 

not unless you can climb into that nook and Dream....!

Meanwhile, the fourth wall, 

the one with the doors to the sleeping nook,

 is still being painted....

(forgive the blue painter's tape...)

And when the doors to the sleeping nook are open....

there will be a tantalizing glimpse of the world beyond....

Inviting you to climb in for a spell....

and perhaps get lost in your Dreams!

(still not finished painting....)

And just in case you wondered, Dear Readers, 

whether I have fallen off the Wagon

 and forgotten to make another lilac blossom.....

I completed the tenth blossom!

Here they are all together in their box!

And I even started on number eleven....

So I am still on track with making one a week!

Because even while painting Rainbows in the

 Gypsy Wagon sleeping compartment, Dear Readers,

I have been Dreaming about those Lilacs....!

Of What do you Dream?