Heads or Tails?

Actually the bookshop has both today. I took this photo plus a couple of others. Mookie, as usual, was eager to help. I can't say that I have ever seen a miniature building of any kind with a tail before....

I wanted to show you the progress on the stone work. Yes. I am working on Buttercup, but progress is slow. I won't bore you with close ups of the rocks. I am liking the shape of the rock formations better than I did before. The plain white areas are the latest addition.

Since I don't have a lot to show you on the Buttercup, I will throw in a couple more photos from the album.

Back in the 80s before there were Styrofoam pumpkins by the dozens in the stores for Halloween we had to make our own. I did this one with papier mache'. I had the brilliant idea that I wanted to do a Cinderella scene in a pumpkin. Alas no pumpkin. So I did it myself. Unfortunately, after a few years the pumpkin got banged up pretty bad. I chose to tear it down and use the parts in other scenes. I am not against doing that sort of thing. If something doesn't look good anymore and the parts are still usable, that's what happens.

This fireplace is one of the early ones that I did and I used commercial tiles. It was pretty uneven and not very attractive. I did like the shape though and it reappeared in the colonial kitchen that I did a couple of months ago. The new fireplace turned out a lot better.

I did both of the dolls. I wound up giving them away. I should have kept them. I could have used Cindy in the castle that I did later.

The plates on the fireplace shelf are the liners from bottle caps painted to look like plates. The shelf was made from commercial trim.

The last one for today is one of the witches. This was in a kitchen that I taught people how to make in an aquarium. They make pretty good room boxes. This one was a group effort. The Wednesday Witches put it together to send to a NAME national house party as a raffle prize one year. It had two witches in it. I seem to have lost or not had a photo of the other end of the room box.

The window Is done with the lead tape method. I used Malcolm Bird's illustrations from his book "The Witch's Handbook" as a jumping off point for the figures. It's a very funny book. It was published in 1984, so I am assuming that the kitchen was probably 1985 or so. I am not good at labeling photos with dates. I did a bunch of witches for other people around that time. I did keep some of those. They are in the Witches' Warehouse. If you want to see them, they are in those entries. I just bookmarked them. Go look.

I am off to do some more stone work.

See you tomorrow.