"look out tiny chair for that elephant's giant foot"!

just kidding...i don't really have an elephant :)

but i do have the sweetest, tiny tufts of mossy beings in my own front yard.

tiny mushrooms and lush moss providing my current mental escape. so many tiny forms that would be missed had it not been for the desires of my 11mm chair. loving the slower and closer look it has afforded me right here in my own yard.

a cascading mossy perch...wisking me to some steamy, tropical, mental hide-away.


and the baby tears that begin on the front walk at the edges of things look so lush and fleshy when set aside llmm of repose : )

fall is dreamy in it's mini quiet escapes.

took my little silver chair for a walk today in search of more tiny escapes. my report: ) the sidewalk cracks are brimming with little, orderly worlds of garden wonder.

more mini resting...this time in the oasis of a sidewalk crack within a mini patch of mini sized clover.

pictured is my mind resting in an

11 millimeter chair in a tiny, sidewalk divot,

rock garden : )

noticing tiny garden escapes everywhere as i look to a season of rest and contemplation.

oh miniaturelandia, how i love you so. you are a giant lift to the tiny worlds inside of me.
tiny pieces for miss teapot's winter collection 2010 of ceramic and metal clays.

tiny handmade pottery pieces i picked up in mexico in january. so lucky. i am always hoping to find native made miniatures for my dollhouse during travel. these were attached to a small shelf that was supposed to be a refrigerator magnet. i carefully plucked them all off and now they adorn my house for dolls. i wonder who made them and if they smiled while they created such sweet little things. these make me smile and will inspire me to begin work with ceramics in miniature sometime this summer.

as long as i can remember i have loved things in miniature and the idea of tiny people using tiny things in a tiny world. pictured are a few tiny housewares i collected when i was 10 or 11. now i get to share those pieces with a more expansive world of 4 dollhouses and a dolltrailer that we have erected for our family of 4 and our imagination in miniature.

my daughter receives the publication "miniatures" and recently we were talking about the polished, conservative and elaborate nature of the inspirations inside and how differently we view the world of miniatures. most of what we have loved for our houses and miniature imaginings have been simple creations, often out of scale, with a hint of "the borrowers" about them or purchases of older pieces of furniture and accessories with a strong hint of a mysterious, handmade and well played former life.

so it is out of our discussions of our own versions of miniature style that we have decided to study and imagine our own publication via blog. our family of 4 all hope to contribute their inspirations to miniaturelandia and what that world is to us. we plan to journal how to's, happenings, collections, interior design tips and perhaps even interviews with the personalities who call miniaturelandia home.

so welcome to miniaturelandia, we hope you have a magical stay.