T'was The Day After Christmas...

Look what Walter gave me!  Another rum box.  This time it is round.  And yes. It contained a bottle of rum this time..

The Terrible Two are already speculating as to what it is going to become...

 What's special about it is the laughing Buddha on the back.  It is carved through the wood so that whatever is inside will show through to the back.  Maybe a piece of fabric or a light?

Anyway, I am going to have to think about this one for a while...

I like it a lot.  It just isn't talking to me yet... It will soon.

Meanwhile, it's just a good thing that I don't like rum... The rest of the adults in the family sampled it and said it was good..

Zar and Tessie would like to sample too, but I don't want a couple of unruly  mini people running around, causing a commotion today...

Walter will make good use of the rest of it... It's good on the golf course when the weather is nippy...

Speaking of nippy... Tonight and tomorrow night are supposed to be two of the coldest nights of recorded temps in AZ...

That brings me to the subject of why I am not back to minis yet...

See all of these plants?  That's about half of what needs to come in the house for 48 hours!

Last year, I lost quite a few when I just covered them and left them out... This year, I am not taking any chances.  It s supposed to get down into the mid 20s tonight and tomorrow night.

So for the next few hours I am going to be carting pots into the house and finding a place to put them... This could take a while.  I had better get started.  I'm leaving the heavy ones for Walter to cart in when he gets home...

See you tomorrow, if I can work my way through the jungle in the family room...

One good Photo....

And three not so good.  The last three are photos of photos...

The first photo is proof that I have been working!  This is all that is left in the laundry basket. We won't talk about the rest of the room.  No... I didn't pile the rest of the contents of the basket on the floor.  Honest.  I am putting stuff away, where it belongs.

I ran across some photos of earlier minis and thought that they might keep you entertained for a bit.

I actually found one photo of the first dollhouse that I ever built.  This is from it's second life though.  I built it for April's fifth Christmas.  After a few years, she gave it back to me.  She went onto other things and I kept building.

I turned her house into a country place... What can I say?  That was the style at that time. Someone was walking around in the bedroom and disturbed the dust on the floor.  This was the early eighties.  You have seen the bed before.  It was my first attempt to copy a real bed...Not terrible...Not great. The chair is Chrysnbon. The trunk, I made from scratch.  The embroidery table was made by a friend.

I have talked about the two Ballhagen boxes that I kept extra minis in, until they found a permanent home.  this is one of them.  All of the pieces are now elsewhere.  Mostly Chrysnbon.  One of my wicker planters and my very first bunka rug.

I need to fill this one up again... Only to empty it, piece, by piece later

I couldn't resist showing you my first Harrison.  It was a trade with a friend.  I had an Early American house and she had this Victorian.  Neither of us liked the houses that we had.

The only problem with this one is, it was a shop model from Michael's or some other craft store and the idiots in charge put it together with a glue gun.  I had to take it apart and start over....Not a fun project. 

This photo was taken about the time that we moved from our old house to this one. 

I got much further than this before I just got tired of working on it... I gave it away...

I now have another Harrison kit under my bed.  I know how much work they are... I keep putting off starting it.  Space wise, it's a monster!  Work wise, even more of a monster.  I added a kitchen wing to the first one and I would do that again.  The rooms just aren't enough.

Anyway, I hope that will keep you busy until tomorrow, when I go back to doing minis. 

Back to the workroom/dungeon.

See you tomorrow.