Missing Willow Farm

Here’s something brand new…  a book nook!  These little things are getting popular for adding miniature magic to bookshelves.  They measure roughly the height and width of one or two books and are decorated as slender dioramas.  When sandwiched between two books on a bookshelf, it appears your shelf is a passageway to someplace either real or imagined.  Thanks to our recent travel, I was inspired to make a European alleyway.  I was enchanted by the colorful homes we came across in Italy, France, Spain and Portugal.

It was important to decorate all of the surfaces before gluing the box together. I used texture paste and a cobblestone stencil for the floor.

I had to put a corgi saying hi in one of the windows!

I made chipboard trellis flower boxes.

I sewed a small gift bag to hold wine and bread as a gift for one of the residences.

There’s a kitty asleep in a window directly across the alley from the corgi.