Re: Gone!!!
Oh, do I know that tip of the tongue sticking out! I'd catch myself doing that when I was sewing very carefully.
Take a look at
http://www.brooketucker.com/putabouts.htm
Her 'room boxes' are what I would call 'dioramas'...scenes.
Mine would be with maybe a fence, or a porch, in the back, not walls.
For instance, I have a Viking, about five inches tall. I found a heavy wire pole, about seven or eight inches tall, with a wooden bird that you pull up to the top, and he pecks his way to the bottom. Then I found a piece of grey slate on which someone had painted a sailing ship...and inserted a piece of wire for hanging. And a couple of ceramic beer mugs, and a wooden treasure chest...all in approximately the right scale. A few things in the background of an appropriate texture and color...and, Bob's your uncle.
Of course it would be a one-of-a-kind.
I have a nice doll house I bought for four dollars. I noticed that my garlic comes three-pack in a fine white mesh...perfect scale for sheer curtains, in some rooms. Wallpapers, eclectic furniture, in scale. Flower pots around...maybe a vine or two...some appropriate garden tools, and a 'country' doll on the porch. Some of my tiny pictures on the walls, and maybe real, working electric lamps...and woven carpets and rugs...an afghan or two...you know.
The tiny paintings are somehow simplified...just a stroke or two to suggest things.
I'll play with these to my heart's content...and then sell them off at a garage sale, for the low prices I paid for them. I may even start a club for building miniature dioramas, if I can bear to share. People could bring their own favorite miniatures.
Then there are the twenty or so huge clear garbage bags of leftover, unused yarns, behind this computer chair...sorted into rainbows and all packaged up nicely. A scrumblers paradise.
I'll get you a couple of links. One is
http://www.knotjustknitting.com
And,
http://www.geocities.com/nornsneedlework/pinkababyproject.html
(Scroll down to see all the pictures.)
Getting sleepy now.
The world is full of beauty, great people, and wonderful things to do, isn't it?