And So Much More.....
Even when you are expecting the eventual arrival of a Gift by mail, Dear Readers, it is Such a Pleasing Surprise when it appears one day in your mailbox! Such was the case with the beads that Andy of Dollhouses and Miniatures blog had promised to send me! If you don't already know Andy and his several beautiful dollhouses, you Must run right over for a visit! He had suggested that he was hoping to find some small porcelain beads that might be useful in the Tree House Chinoiserie bedroom and would send some if I liked. But he was only able to find beads of about one inch which makes them too large for the Tree House.... unless we are talking about mammoth Urns... (which could be an idea....!) but I decided that it would be wonderful to have them anyway and I could see whether they would work in the Tiny scale.
They arrived on Friday!
Not only are the Beads Beautiful,
but he "Threw in" a lovely copper Tea Kettle
which he wasn't using and thought I might be able to use somewhere!
And it all came with a Gorgeous card...
With an embroidered Peacock design....
which I surely will have to find a way to use....
(I think perhaps it will make a Great firescreen ...!)
The kettle found a home Right away on the Folly Kitchen stove....
Which reminds me that Several improvements
have been made to this kitchen in recent weeks!
I made a "brick" wall using egg carton bricks,
for the stove to back up against.....
And I also added the small kerosene lamp
(another small purchase from the Sturbridge Fair)....
It is electrified, but I still have not hooked the wiring up.
And you might have noticed that I added a stovepipe
to connect the stove to the Chimney....
It is made from the cardboard tube that used to be part of the
wire hangers you got with your clean shirts from the Laundry...
(Does anybody else remember them.... or even collect old hanger parts... LOL!)
As for the Beads, they are looking Perfectly Stunning as Vases
on the mantle of the Folly Fireplace....
Where I think they look as though they were Made for this Room!
But it seems as though Samuel Whiskers has other ideas
about where they should go....
I wonder what he is up to?
It seems that he and Anna Maria are looking into leasing a home....
They were spotted looking at Real Estate....
A Lovely set of Row Houses along the Cliff Walk....
In a Town not too Far Away....
With a small amount of Structural upgrades and a good coat of paint....
they would be ready to move right in!
(Can you believe this is a "decorative" bird house I found at Michael's?
It seems to be the Perfect scale...!)
And lest you be afraid, Dear Readers,
that I have abandoned all work on the Tree House...
You may rest easy that I have been Slowly ....
And I mean SLOWLY... completing the lighting of the
Chinoiserie bedroom!
You may remember that I was needing to have the lights be ambient
and therefore practically invisible to the viewer looking into the room....
Which required some serious alterations of the already nearly done room....
You can see below the results of my careful adaptations....
Looking down from the top with the domed ceiling removed....
If you look VERY closely at the wall beside the candle sconce next to the window...
you will see a small niche with the LED tucked inside....
with a "facing" along the door opening side...
so the light is not visible as you look into the room!
I had to carve away part of the doorframe wall...
careful to not touch the sconce....
and then build up the casing to go around the lamp!
The overhead light is easier to see here......
Where I had to carve a channel into the ceiling frame pieces.....
so the domed ceiling would still sit flush to the frame....
And then I needed to add a "shield" on the under side of the lamp
so the it was not visible when you look in and up at the ceiling....
but still allowed the light to point at the Peacock wall
well enough to illuminate the painting...
And I needed to add still more layers of card
around the base of the dome along one side...
to fill cracks where it was not sitting flush on the Frame....
And then I GLUED the Dome in place!!!!
I weighted it down with a can of paint and let it sit for two days!!!
So now when you look into the Room...
with Only the ambient light sources....
yes, I know it is dim... but at Night it is So Gorgeously Perfect!!!
And while the Chinoiserie bedroom is Almost Done....
I have also been working on those spiral stairs to the next level...
Here you can see the entire Tree House in place next to The Folly....
and at the back side is the small turret with the spiral stairs inside....
The cardboard tubing is still not finished being fitted....
But you can see the Domed ceiling of the bedroom in place
and the Floor of the next room above it....
If I hold it in place you can see how the turret is positioned....
And Yes, I could Not resist putting a window into the stairwell....
Still very much under construction!!!
As for the Kitchen of the Folly....
Hazel stopped by the Minute she heard there was a new Copper Teakettle...
Just to give it a Test run....
And while she was there...
She thought she'd have a look in the oven as well...
Oh my!
Pie!!!
Please be sure to come on by for some fresh baked pie...
and a cup of fresh brewed tea....!
While it may be just another little Gift....
The friendship it brings....
The stories it inspires....
I t ends up being So Much More!!!
Thank you, Andy for your Thoughtful and Beautiful Gifts!
They are Treasured!
