blackhouse finished

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I finished my blackhouse (crofter's cottage) last month in time to enter it in a competition, but then I immediately turned my attentions to Christmas and never got around to posting the finished pictures here.  (I won't know the results of the competition until February.  I hope I'll win something!)

So here it is, finished at last.












I made the peat creel, my first miniature basket.  It's a bit of a mess, but that just adds to the look of being old and well-used, I think.  And I love that little lantern, made by my miniaturist friend Renee Bowen.  The panes are mica.