A Dream Within A Dream.....
I can Barely believe it, Dear Readers, but it was a weekend of (Almost) NO Minis! What? How could That happen, I ask myself... as I wrack my brains for Something to Post about! But, Alas, it is true.... due to Taxes and the first weekend of the Gardening Season.... all my Time was consumed by RL activities! Well, Almost all my Time.....because I am incurably absorbed in my Mini worlds.... but I will get to that in a minute! First I want to share with you a few of the Small Improvements that have been made in one house or another over the past months. It often happens that when I cannot make my mind up about a detail of my Current obsession... the Quarter scale Tree House.... I find myself working on details of the Larger scale houses... but I never get around to sharing them here with you! So I will welcome this opportunity when I have nothing new in the Tree House to report about, to show you some of these small details.
As you may be aware, I am trying to complete the wiring and hence all the Lighting, for The Folly. And I have always imagined that the house was originally built before the era of electric lighting, and so all the lights would have been added after the house was built. This is important in deciding what style the lights should be... because none of them are "original" to the house! So it is that I have imagined the Bathroom is an After Thought as well.... it was probably added where originally there was just a closet..... So you will have to forgive me if my Imagination just would not get past a "bare" lightbulb as the lighting for this room! Sometime last Winter I decided to give a try to making the fixture that holds the bulb.......
You can sort of see it here below.....
along with the "pull chain" made of beads.....
It is made of layers of card stock glued together and painted gold....
it ended up a little large for the scale.....
but close enough to work in this small room....
where at first I was going to just hang it crudely from the ceiling.....
But having seen on another blog, the beautiful job of attaching just this sort of bulb in an attic setting.... (Thank you Brae for the Inspiration!)
I decided to try my hand at a better attachment, and came up with this.....
I built a ceiling panel with a metal "collar" for the wiring....
Which looks So Much better and more realistic!
And when I got all the wiring hooked up....
(more weeks of passing time...)
You can see the effect with the light on!
Isn't that Brilliant?
As for the other little "Flashback" I wish to show you, Dear Readers,
it has to do with another Little Person who came to live in my Doll World ....
We were at The Cape last Summer and I found her in that Museum I visited...
and she just looked like she needed to come home with me....
But you might recall that after last Year's Wedding Extravaganza....
I had banished all my Dolls to remote Locations....
(Temporarily, you understand,)
so that I could Concentrate on Finishing some of their Houses!!!
(The Stories have a way of Distracting me from Building...!)
And one of those "Remote Locations" happens to be a bookcase in my Living Room....
Where I set up some "Temporary" Vignettes....
Celeste and Harold are still visiting a cafe under the stars.....
Pollyanna and Arthur are still headed off for their Honeymoon....
And Daphne and Will are still gazing into the Fountain of Dreams in a Garden....
Which is where they have all been .....
in Suspended Animation..... for an Entire Year......!!!
While I am Absorbed in building the Tree House
(Which I hadn't even Dreamt of when I put them here...)
And all this year I have glanced into these Vignettes
and Imagined the Worlds they are in....
Until this weekend when I had an idea....
Or was it a Dream....?
They were standing at the Well of Dreams, after all.....
What are they Dreaming of....?
And Where are they......
A Garden of Dreams that Seems so Familiar....
What is Daphne's Dream...?
Or, rather... Who is Daphne's Dream...?
What is her Name...?
And What is She Dreaming of....?
Can they see each other...?
Do they Know each other...?
Can they Touch......
Or is it Just a Dream......???
I am Afraid I do not yet know the Answers, Dear Readers!
All I did was grab a couple of minutes to cut some pages from an old wall Calendar
to see how they fit as backdrops for this little Vignette.....
And the Rest remains to be seen....
A Flashback.....
And A Dream....
Within a Dream....!
