Winter....

It's Been Snowing....

Winter has been Relentless lately in my Neck o' the Woods, Dear Readers, with one storm after another Roaring through and dumping freezing rain, ice, sleet and snow in great quantity! Every couple of days it seems we are being bombarded with more snow and fierce winds! It makes it very challenging just to get to work and back, as I have a drive of over thirty miles each way and my workplace is up in the Hills to the North of where I live. Yes, the Groundhog said six more weeks of Winter.... and so far we have made it through one of them! It snowed all day yesterday and part of the night, and we woke to a Winter wonderland with snow coating everything and piled deep on the ground! Twelve more inches on top of the nine we got on Thursday on top of the four we got on Tuesday....

Yes, that is my RL garden underneath all that snow!

Is it any wonder that I don't want to have anything more to do with snow?

Not even to decorate the Secret Christmas House

 with a layer of glittery artificial snow?

 

Well, I pulled out my faithful scraps of the "Christmas" snow

 that is supposed to be used in Christmas village set-ups.... 

and quickly added some to the Secret Christmas House.... 

but it is not the permanent decoration for this kit. 

I have bought several different kinds of "fake" snow for this project, 

but I have yet to get the courage to Apply it to the House! 

It seems so irrevocable! I don't want to mess it up! 

I think I need to do some "practice" samples 

to get the feel for how it goes on.

And somehow, rather that testing the snow, Dear Readers,

I found myself digging out another small kit I had bought

 several years ago at the Sturbridge Fair....

A kit for a Tiny 144th scale Garden....!

It is made by Ginger Landon Siegel 

and has all the materials you need to put together 

a mini tea party in a Garden....!

There is a tiny patio area on a base... 

with greenery on all sides....

And a tiny wall with a fountain niche....

Cut from printed paper that you must carefully layer 

and adorn with sand to resemble stone....

 And almost before I could blink.....

Halcyon came to have a look!

It seems I am not the only one dreaming of Tea in the Garden!

She can just imagine.... 

but where are the tables....?

Well, there are still many parts to construct 

before we get to the Tea!

Starting with the hedges which flank the fountain.....

And adding rocks which surround a little pond....

Adding the painted "water"....

(And discovering that the sample fake water provided 

in the kit was too old and dried out to use....)

So I attempted to use a layer of clear gel glue instead.

It doesn't really work...

It just looks like a layer of dried glue.

I will have to try to fix that.....!

There are still all the tables and chairs to construct, 

potted flowers and little trays of tea and snacks... 

not to mention some "ladies" to dress....

 (really just paper dolls with clothes...)

And the ever present temptation to go beyond the kit 

and add a tree or two... or a Pavilion.... 

or more lawn and flower strewn borders....

the possibilities are boundless!

So, No, Dear Readers, I was not playing with the snow.... 

I was far Far away in a Tiny Garden!

Even though Winter doesn't stop....

We're supposed to get even more on Wednesday!

Yes, It's been Snowing!