I can finally post photos of my fairy house!

I made this for the Small World forum "Round Thing non-contest". The only real requirement was to make a round structure. This fairy house in a tree stump started life as a small Pringles can. The base is a laminate flooring sample (I'm glad I save everything, lol.) The actual stump is 1:12 scale as you can see by the boy playing behind the tree. The fairy and her house are 1:48 scale. The house has working lights. The furniture is made from natural materials - many came from a couple of bags of potpourri.

The bark of the tree is made from paper mache.

Wow! I have 65 followers!

Please help me welcome Juliana, my 65th follower. Juliana has more than one blog but her mini one, http://lasminisdelbosque.blogspot.com/, has several photos of a beautiful and very detailed mini sewing room. There are also photos of her real sewing room. I envy her organizational skills!

I needed to make something!

This was a fun project. I bought the silver charm at Hobby Lobby this week. Today I painted it and made a cake to go with it. Blue and green are the colors in my daughter's wedding next summer so that seemed like a good choice. The cake columns are made from fancy toothpicks. The cake topper is almost as tall as the cake but it's still cute. :0)

New photos

I don't know if this ever happens to any of you but last night at around midnight I suddenly decided that I couldn't stand the out of scale spaghetti in my new dollhouse. And since mine was one of several I'd made for swaps, I felt the need to make a new one not only for me but for all the people who'd received my overscaled bowl of spaghetti in the swap. I'm so much happier with the new ones (anyone reading this who got one of the other bowls of spaghetti will be getting another in scale bowl soon, :0) )

I also used some photography tips that Ara posted on her Addams family blog to get a clearer photo of Joseph. You still can't see the little tears on his cheek but you can tell his eyes are moist.

Making spaghetti

I found these pans at Hobby Lobby this week during the 50% off sale. I turned them into the used spaghetti prep pans. The sauce even dripped down the edge of the pan as it was poured over the spaghetti noodles.

I love the extra bit of realism they add to the kitchen. Plus it was fun to do! The spaghetti in the serving bowl was one of the ones I made for a Small World food swap - the ones with the too large noodles. I'm happier with the ones I made with the crochet thread.

A giveaway to celebrate my 200th post

This is baby Joseph. I'm sorry I wasn't able to get a clearer photo. He's throwing his arms back and crying. There are even tiny tears on his cheek. I will put the names of everyone who posts on my blog between now and next Friday in a hat and draw out the winner one week from Saturday.

Welcome!

Please help me welcome Asli. Her blog is http://aslibayulgen.blogspot.com/. I didn't translate but the photos are of some beautiful minis, reborn dolls and repainted fashion dolls. Stop by and say hello!