Sweet Treats

Wooden produce crates make perfect miniature buildings.  Two examples below – a French bakery and a mouse house.  Pardon the quality of the photos.  These date all the way back to the era of pre-cell phone cameras.

The Mouse House

A house put together by a mouse would be expected to have lots of odds and ends.

 

 

Second floor.

 

 

St. Francis, patron saint of animals…who else would you expect to find in a mouse’s garden?

 

French Bakery

 

French Bakery

 

Fresh baguettes, gateaux and other delightful sweets! Your coffee is already poured.

 

Enchanted

Fairy house, gnome home or mouse house, you be the judge.  Everything used in this house was found, not bought; disassembled and reassembled; bashed, broken, glued, painted, and tweaked every which way.

 

The shell of the house was falling apart and some of the roof was missing. It was going in the trash until it was saved at the last minute for this crazy little project.

 

 

 

 

 

Before and After: Fairy Chair

 

 

 

 

Fairies can’t be expected to bathe in an ordinary bathtub.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fairy Doors

In the late winter of 2014, the OSU Botanic Garden had an infestation of fairies.  During that year, sharp-eyed visitors were able to spot more than a dozen diminutive portals to fairy homes.  A small, secretive group of volunteers monitored the doors throughout the year to make sure the fairies were not disturbed.  You don’t want to make a fairy mad!  Here is a sampling of the doors which the many artistic fairies created.