corner view~miniature worlds

 

I loved miniatures as a kid.  My grandfather built my sister and me a dollhouse, complete with two floors and stairs, and real lights.  My grandmother crocheted tiny rugs and sewed pillows, bed linens, and curtains.  When I was about twelve I began to make mini food -- cherry pie, spaghetti on a button plate, a box of assorted doughnuts.  My mother and I brought a bunch of my best items into a store that sold only miniatures.  I was hoping to land a job.  The lady looked at them and told me they were really good, but not quite professional enough to sell.  I'm glad now, because I still have many of them.

Now the miniature world I get a glimpse into is different.  I have a tiny mirror that sits on my bookshelf next to a ceramic medal, I gaze whimsically at my daughter's ceramic and bronze bunny rabbits, barely taking time to hold them in my hand, lest play with them.  I did just start a tiny bird collection, with the newest thrift find pictured above in our new tangerine tree.  Even the tree has tiny green tangerines on it, all different sizes, growing bit by bit until we will pick them, hopefully right before we leave for our summer trip in June.

And there are my dream collages, all neatly glued in a brand new sketch book.  I take this book out every once in awhile to remind myself of a new world I might someday inhabit.  For now, it is a miniature world, a happy idea.

How many things start as miniature before they take full form?  The seed gives lettuce, the acorn, the tree.  A little girl decorates her dollhouse.  Little does she know it is practice for one day when she will decorate a real house.  Most ideas begin small.  But an idea?  Well, that can lead to anything.

I have been having some exciting new ideas lately.  They started small, years ago.  I have begun to breathe life into them. We shall see what they will lead to.   

All is divine harmony.

In February I mentioned mosaics.  Click here to see a post about my first mosaics.  I am still digging up the photo of the thirty foot wall.  But hopefully this will suffice for now.

For more corner views about miniature worlds, with many other interpretations, go to the sidebar at Jane's blog.