Santa Says....

 

Another Distraction....

Well, Dear Readers, Some years I guess I just need a few small distractions to keep me going! And Santa pointed out to me a few of the Tiny Kits I had received and not yet assembled... and since I had been craving gingerbread and thinking about the many little Gingerbread Houses I had made in RL over my accumulating years... This tiny kit by Robin Betterley Miniatures was calling to me! On Christmas Day I pulled the pieces from the package and got started! The pieces are tiny and go together very cleanly (these kits are Amazingly well designed!) so I had made great progress Lickety-split!

        Of course, this is one of their "Secret Books" series in the "Teeny Weeny" size range.

The cover and spine and interior all got bright red paint.

And the cover art carefully glued on!

Here is a close up view!

And the interiors.....

It is supposed to be a tiny kitchen!

See how teeny weeny it is?

 

And there is a teeny weeny "stove" to assemble and paint...

And Teensy Tiny Gingerbread Houses!

It got me thinking.......

(More about that later.... )

 

And because I was "on a roll" as they say...

 

I had to start a couple more of these right away.....

It was Christmas Day after all....

And there was a kit for an even tinier one....!

Just waiting to be tested......

Above you can see an "Itsy Bitsy" "Secret Book"

 this in a series of Guide Books for well known places...

 London in this case. 

These end up really Tiny!

I am not sure there is anything I could make to put in there!

(But I might have to try!)

I did complete the tiny stove for the Gingerbread House.... 

but not the Teensy weensy Houses yet.... 

(see them there in that plastic baggie?)

so it is not yet all glued in place.... 

and I am afraid there is already some creative mischief afoot..... 

but I'm not telling yet! 

Because there was still another secret book under way...

(These kits are a bit addictive... !!)

 

This one.... "A Winter Wonderland" by Frosty Snow...!

Is really pretty inside and begs for some improved adornments...

Which will have to wait its turn!

For now... the attention has gone to the Gingerbread House Kitchen....

 

Here you can see the interior with the

 decorated "Stove" inside... (at the top)

But if you look very very carefully

 in the middle of this picture there is

 the beginnings of a Tiny "Glue trick figure"...

Because it seemed to me that there would

 need to be some "help" with the

 decorating of the Gingerbread Houses!

 

 

Here is a closer shot of the fellow....!

 

And some furniture to sit on......

which needed a lot of fidgeting....

 

 To get the spreaders on the legs.....

 

And perhaps only one helper was not enough....?

And the very rustic stool is assembled...

And here you can see... if you look very closely..

The arrangement of the stool and helper....

But that is as far as I got.

We will all have to be patient to see the final results... 

at some distant future...

because I have a task to accomplish first.

I am back to work now, Dear Readers, 

... and I am making progress!

And while Santa Says "go for it" 

A Little Distraction doesn't get

 the Christmas Card done!

Wishing Everybody a Happy New Year!

with plenty of Exciting New Projects