I've been retreating a bit. Surrounding myself with little simple organizational home comforts and small people. The warmer weather is trying its hardest to draw me out, and I will dutifully emerge eventually.
This morning I want to share some small things of recent experience and interest.
Outside of providing a juried criticism, it's not often that my husband has occasion to revisit the model-making of his college architecture curriculum. However, he recently found himself with exacto in hand for a particular project, much to the delight of my daughters who discovered this as a new form of miniature play. After completing his own project, he offered balsa and foam to the girls and helped them build scale rooms, to which they added fabric scraps.
Whether it's with traditional dollhouse furnishings or raw materials, I never cease to be amazed at the environments that they assemble and the imagination that sparks when they build their own small worlds.
My wonder over miniature worlds was fortified this weekend when I happened across the artful work of Althea Crome and her recent work for the new movie Coraline. Purely fascinating!
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