My Mother turns 87

  My mother,my three children and I  go to Rockport MA to celebrate her birthday every year.  This year she turned 87 while we were there. 

      I have been very indulgent and added quite a few pictures of my children.  I have promised them that this will not be a habit, and I ask for you forgiveness in advance...I will not make a habit of including my personal life too often. 

     I have made some progress on the beach house.  My trip to Rockport has given me many new ideas, and some miniature materials that I will share with you in the future.  Annabelle and  I are now calling the beach house our Rockport house.  Rockport is a small seaside town on the north shore of  Massachusetts.  There are many houses both large and small,  my favorite are from the 1780's.  Some of the smaller homes are painted in wild combinations of orange and blue, aqua and peach, lime green and pale blue.  It is an artist's community, with many beautiful shops and settings.  I have included a few pictures of details that I think are worth making in miniature.

Happy birthday Mom

Gwendolyn tries out two new granddaughters.  They are dolls that I made in the past .  Annabelle wants to name them Clair  and Amelia. 

some progress in the bathroom.  I am making a tile floor out of Paper clay  The wall paper is from Itsy Bitsy Mini and looks beautiful with the bed room wall paper.  The name of the bathroom wall paper is Starfish and Seahorses in aqua.  It is so perfect for a beach house.

We still are working on the canned goods.  It takes a lot of tiny  foods to fill a jar.  If you click on my images they will get bigger and the collages look better.

Joseph and Gwendolyn's bed room is coming along.  I have just put some vintage laces on the bed for  now.  I plan on making a mattress and bedding  I have since added pink crystal knobs to the dresser.  I painted the bed and and dresser green and added a simple landscape to tie them together.  I am planning on making a upholstered chair to set by the window, for now I am playing with the wicker chair that I made for the porch .  I love the wall paper from Itsy Bitsy Mini (Stripe Dark Toil, peach).

I have finished the" f"lag stone" kitchen floor.  I used a cereal box for the base and covered it with Paperclay.  I am very happy with the results, but have no idea how we will finish the kitchen.  I like the English and European kitchens That I am seeing and may just mix cultures.

Some pretty details from Rockport.  I am adding a chimney to our Rockport/Beach house.  I was going to put a  sculpted sail-ship tile in the center of  the chimney, but now I think that I will make a mermaid.  I love the seashells in the urns. 

Too beautiful to leave out.

Flowers  all around.

For Susan.
 I finished Anna's dress early this year.  I am usually hemming her smocked dress the night before we leave for Rockport.

James
I am not used to having a 16 year old, and I did not think to remind him to bring a razor.

William

It is not easy to get three children to pose in unison. 

Final product...a Christmas card

Have A lovely week,
Lucy Coles