Blog Birthday Party!

Tomorrow is the 2nd anniversary of the birth of this blog! I should have waited to birth my blog until April 1, the fools day. What was I thinking launching a blog on such a mundane day as March 29? After all I am an April Fool. I am not telling anyone my birthday or how old I am not but you can send me expensive presents if you insist on it.

I went searching around my computer for a photo you have not seen before and I found the one above. The photo was taken several years ago at a house I used to own.

The piece on the far left is a Victorian era display case I purchased from an antique store. It needs a bit of restoration that I have never gotten around to doing. Inside it is a horse drawn 1:12 scale fire engine built by a man from Grant's Pass Oregon. I don't recall his name. That fire engine was the first quality collectible miniature I ever purchased. You can enlarge the photo to see it better by clicking on the picture.

The other three structures on the shelf are a series of birdhouses I built for a display at the Van Dusen Garden Show in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The display featured David Austen Roses from England so I made three incredible half timber birdhouses for it. The designs just flew out of my fingers and they were built before I knew it I was so happy and so in the flow of it all. You have seen that dovecote inspire its tiny paper cousin, the other two half timbers birdhouses will also get their own tiny paper cousins too!

You can't exactly call those birdhouses miniatures, but they are 1:12 scale. You can image how strange it is for me to be building the tiny paper buildings after years of working on real houses and large birdhouses and regular sized dollhouses. Strangely enough size does not matter to me, large or small, real buildings or micro miniatures, paper, metal, glass or wood, I enjoy the design process every bit as much as I did years ago as a child. There are hundreds more designs clamoring in my head to get made. There are probably thousands in there because hardly a day goes by that I am not inspired by what I see in my armchair and real life travels around the world or right in my neighborhood.

Ah ha I did say something about a birthday party didn't I? This is your invite, come on over to the blog tomorrow evening and we will party! I am going to give away a present or two or even three! Luck of the draw, get out your lucky charms and make a wish, it might be you who gets one.