landscape – SmART

These are really small projects done in 1/144 scale. A standard dollhouse is 1/12 scale, i.e. 1″ in the model represents 12″ in ‘real life’. If you wanted to make a dollhouse for a 1/12 scale dollhouse, you would use 1/144 scale.

Crazy? Yes. Fun? Definitely.

This stump is a piece of cork which was very easy to carve, and that’s why it has so many nooks and crannies to explore. It’s home to a tiny creature. Not sure exactly what it is. It’s very shy and has never been seen.

A well tended garden is just outside the back door.

This 2′ piece of oak was salvaged from a lot that had been bulldozed. It’s a work in progress, named The Swordfish because of the way it looks from a certain angle.

**Chicken Dinner.** This is 1/12 scale, but small enough as a piece that I decided it qualified for this post.

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.