Just Another Up-date....

 

 

A Few Little Additions.....

I Hope you will understand, Dear Readers, that I have been doing almost nothing except work on the Christmas Card drawing and it is still not finished. I have not read any blogs or spent time in the internet, and the one tiny exception is that I have kept stitching a little bit each day. We had a big snowstorm on the 18th of December with 16 inches of snow overnight... and so when I was stitching on the little Christmas Tree Skirt, I realized that the village was lacking a snowman! So, as you can see in the above picture, I added one right away!

 

 

And then the next time I was stitching,

 I realized that it needed a "snow deer" as well..... 

But I am afraid it turned out more like a "polar bear deer".....

(See in the above picture!)

 but I am sure this was because the snow was not cooperating!

 

And then, because there was a space that seemed "unpopulated"

 between the houses... 

I thought I would add a Santa....

He is pointing at the star in the sky above!

And because he is pointing.... 

it seemed that there should be someone he is pointing for...

So Mrs. Santa had to come out to see what he was pointing to!

And all this while I was adding the "snow shadows" around the edges too.

And on Christmas morning

(in the middle of a torrential rainstorm that washed away All our snow!)

 I started to stitch the blue sky around the star.

I had a very very quiet Christmas with just my son and me.

 I got a lot done on the Christmas card too!

Here the central star is all surrounded with the blue. 

This was tricky to do because the yellow thread

 is so similar to the color of the mesh, 

it is sometimes difficult to tell where the stitch is!

Now there is just a lot of sky to stitch....

 

Which will take a while!

 

So you can see, Dear Readers, 

I have been doing almost nothing but work on the Christmas Card!

 And because I can't show you that,

 all I can show is the little additions to the Christmas Tree Skirt!

I hope you have all had a wonderful, 

Quiet and Safe Christmas!

Have I Lost My Marbles?

The Moon Window

Have you ever dug in the ground, Dear Readers, and come across Marbles buried in the dirt and wondered how long they were there and Who LOST them? It seems to me that all my life I have found beautiful Marbles whenever I have dug a new Garden! I have collected them, of course... but I have also LOST them again.... because they Always seem to turn up Somewhere, so I have NOT kept them very carefully.... but tend to leave them amongst the other rocks I unearth. So it can be no wonder that when I think of Treasures found in the Earth.... I think of LOST Marbles... and how they would appear to someone who is building a little Home underground.....

So I decided to include one that got Lost in the Ground and was partly swallowed by the Tree Roots, but was close to the surface so it could let the light into the Underground Room......!

I realize that the walls for the Kitchen are not completed in this picture below.... 

but it gives a Sense of how the Marble looks without any lights on..... 

I think it looks like the Moon!

And speaking of unfinished Kitchen walls.... 

Before I could finish the walls and the ceiling, 

I needed to Finish ALL the little things that would go in this room!  

I had wanted a small Framed "Picture" that said "Home Sweet Home" that looked as though it was a stitched sampler... but I couldn't find any suitable candidates to copy...

so I drew one myself! 

You can see it here below....

It is Quite TINY!

And then I added a Frame made of Sticks.....

And Because I simply Couldn't imagine a House without Tea and Sugar....... 

I made some Tiny Canisters of wood with labels I painted myself.....

And carefully added them to the shelf with the Clock.......

Along with a little jar full of Amber Honey!

I have also added a Tree Root handrail along the stairs....

And I have also added the Rafters overhead in the ceiling...... 

This is the view from overhead before the "Root" rafters are added ...

And here you can see the Roots added.....

Of course, they will be Barely visible from inside... 

unless you are looking up.....

(This is after I added the Ceiling infill...)

Which you can see from the top here......

 

And here I have started the attaching the Lantern in place... 

the wires go above the ceiling, but below the floor above...

And here is what it looks like with the floor layer (Temporarily) added...

And the front archway in place..... 

but not glued in.....

I need to work out the catch mechanism for this opening side... 

I'm thinking magnets.....

And here you can see the framework as a whole.... 

this room nearly done...

And me starting to think about the framework for the next level.....!!

And while there are still a few TINY details I want to add...

Like a Tiny Teapot.... and a stool.... and a basket.....

and the ceiling needs completing..... and ......

This room is Nearly Done!

But, have I Lost my Marbles?