Out with 2015, in with 2016!
I meant to post these pictures in the fall, but fall involved a fall, among other things, and so fun things were set aside.
I have always loved miniatures. I built dollhouses as a teenager and always dreamed of building Rosedawn Plantation. I would have loved to do something hobbity or elvish once that love developed. Well, the latest thing is fairy gardens.
Dreamflower's hobbit door is on treebeard, with a dwarf walking out from it. That is a papillion dog near the firepit, Elliska!
There are owls and eaglets roosting in Treebeard's branches. I may have to find a hobbit to put up there too! My Bilbo is too big.
I wanted it to look loke dwarves were coming from secret places - so I put up a door and tried to build a wall around it.
I want to build a river with polymer clay and crushed shells, but the last picture will show why that may not be a good idea. Instead a friend gave me a pond to put my swan on. I have a scene in one of my stories where a young Arwen sees a swan and cygnets as she is crossing a bridge. I am keeping my eye out for an Arwen-like fairy child.
This firepit lights up! It was a gift - there are some cool miniatures out there. I got the bigger pieces from QVC but one of my aides finds unique little things at all sorts of little shops that she goes to.
Miss Anniecat sits in the garden regularly. My one aide tried so hard to keep her out of it while we set it up, which only made the cat more resolved to sit in it. She does it whenever one of us is in the room just to prove that she can. My black cat Onyx sticks his nose into every corner of the garden and continually takes down the owl that sits on the bridge. Surprisingly, they really don't hurt anything.
I spent eight days in the hospital in November with sepsis, two days after coming home I broke my leg when I fell during the night, I have had continual infections since that time (and really the whole year, between bacterial, shingles and influenza) and am now too sick to even be tried on the biological drugs I had not yet tried that are used for autoimmune disorders. I had decided a few years ago to not try any more drugs, as they did more harm than good, but the effects on my brain/vision made me decide to maybe try this one last drug....but I have no problem with the 'no' answer. No point in making myself more miserable or having the treatment kill me!
I do have some winter decorating pictures to post. They are uploaded, so I will do them next. I am glad the holidays are over as the family drama was making me wish I could run away and start life over with a new identity. Now those members of the family are back to pretending I don't exist, thank God. Peace and joy come from within, but are much easier to maintain and enjoy without those negative external forces.
I have always loved miniatures. I built dollhouses as a teenager and always dreamed of building Rosedawn Plantation. I would have loved to do something hobbity or elvish once that love developed. Well, the latest thing is fairy gardens.
Dreamflower's hobbit door is on treebeard, with a dwarf walking out from it. That is a papillion dog near the firepit, Elliska!
There are owls and eaglets roosting in Treebeard's branches. I may have to find a hobbit to put up there too! My Bilbo is too big.
I wanted it to look loke dwarves were coming from secret places - so I put up a door and tried to build a wall around it.
I want to build a river with polymer clay and crushed shells, but the last picture will show why that may not be a good idea. Instead a friend gave me a pond to put my swan on. I have a scene in one of my stories where a young Arwen sees a swan and cygnets as she is crossing a bridge. I am keeping my eye out for an Arwen-like fairy child.
This firepit lights up! It was a gift - there are some cool miniatures out there. I got the bigger pieces from QVC but one of my aides finds unique little things at all sorts of little shops that she goes to.
Miss Anniecat sits in the garden regularly. My one aide tried so hard to keep her out of it while we set it up, which only made the cat more resolved to sit in it. She does it whenever one of us is in the room just to prove that she can. My black cat Onyx sticks his nose into every corner of the garden and continually takes down the owl that sits on the bridge. Surprisingly, they really don't hurt anything.
I spent eight days in the hospital in November with sepsis, two days after coming home I broke my leg when I fell during the night, I have had continual infections since that time (and really the whole year, between bacterial, shingles and influenza) and am now too sick to even be tried on the biological drugs I had not yet tried that are used for autoimmune disorders. I had decided a few years ago to not try any more drugs, as they did more harm than good, but the effects on my brain/vision made me decide to maybe try this one last drug....but I have no problem with the 'no' answer. No point in making myself more miserable or having the treatment kill me!
I do have some winter decorating pictures to post. They are uploaded, so I will do them next. I am glad the holidays are over as the family drama was making me wish I could run away and start life over with a new identity. Now those members of the family are back to pretending I don't exist, thank God. Peace and joy come from within, but are much easier to maintain and enjoy without those negative external forces.