Being a miniaturist myself, I'm still going for the 1/12th scale reproduction of Holmes Manor and/or the Much Ado sets (you can buy special glass "room boxes" for single room dioramas etc). Seriously - Queen Mary's Doll's House is gorgeous and even lesser houses are Great Fun.
I now have a mental image of Mycroft hand-embroidering the chair and sofa covers in petite-point...
OH! Okay, now I really want to make BC and MF 1/12 dolls (I doll-make in craft-clay not porcelain unfortunately) and dress them in 16thC period costume... one of them in drag. :D
Or at least draw/paint that. I *am* working on John but your blasted oak is complicating matters, unless I want the whole thing to be is shadow tones...
My Dad - who is 76 - owns a wax-sealed bottle of scotch that is older than he is (sort of, it was 25yo when it was bottled in 1950) which is apparently worth at least £1k. (An 18yo or 21yo Scotch will probably set you back £90-150, as a guide. A decent 12yo is about £30. The youngest aged Scotches are 8yo.)
What else could be in the bottle? Great Aunt Maud's extremely potent home-made elderberry port? What else does one bottle? Messages, naturally... but wouldn't someone have opened it by now?
Something pickled? Walnuts or a shrew or something?
OH! In some parts of Greece they used to bottle scorpions and other venomous beasties in oil - the scorpion-oil was then supposed to be an anti-venom if you did get stung or bitten!!! How about a snake or some such in oil or brandy that was once supposed to be an antidote to all poisons or something? Or *actual* snake oil from the 19thC?
5th November is Guy Fawkes' Day aka Bonfire Night aka Fireworks Night. We remember the foiled Gunpowder Plot when the Catholics (allegedly) tried to blow up the Houses of Parliament with the King in them (in about 1605!!!) with fireworks and bonfires. It is traditional to have an effigy of a man - representing either Guy Fawkes or the Pope! depending on where you live - on top of the bonfire. I was severely traumatised aged 5 or 6 by the burning of my cousins' extremely life-like "Guy".
"Remember, remember the 5th of November, Gunpowder, Treason and Plot! I see no reason why Gunpowder Treason should ever be forgot!"
And unlike Advent calendars, Advent proper begins in November, 4 Sundays before Christmas. Some people put their Christmas decorations up on the 1st Sunday in Advent.
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Mycroft's craft work
Date: 2012-07-08 06:27 pm (UTC)I now have a mental image of Mycroft hand-embroidering the chair and sofa covers in petite-point...
OH! Okay, now I really want to make BC and MF 1/12 dolls (I doll-make in craft-clay not porcelain unfortunately) and dress them in 16thC period costume... one of them in drag. :D
Or at least draw/paint that. I *am* working on John but your blasted oak is complicating matters, unless I want the whole thing to be is shadow tones...
My Dad - who is 76 - owns a wax-sealed bottle of scotch that is older than he is (sort of, it was 25yo when it was bottled in 1950) which is apparently worth at least £1k. (An 18yo or 21yo Scotch will probably set you back £90-150, as a guide. A decent 12yo is about £30. The youngest aged Scotches are 8yo.)
What else could be in the bottle? Great Aunt Maud's extremely potent home-made elderberry port? What else does one bottle? Messages, naturally... but wouldn't someone have opened it by now?
Something pickled? Walnuts or a shrew or something?
OH! In some parts of Greece they used to bottle scorpions and other venomous beasties in oil - the scorpion-oil was then supposed to be an anti-venom if you did get stung or bitten!!! How about a snake or some such in oil or brandy that was once supposed to be an antidote to all poisons or something? Or *actual* snake oil from the 19thC?
5th November is Guy Fawkes' Day aka Bonfire Night aka Fireworks Night. We remember the foiled Gunpowder Plot when the Catholics (allegedly) tried to blow up the Houses of Parliament with the King in them (in about 1605!!!) with fireworks and bonfires. It is traditional to have an effigy of a man - representing either Guy Fawkes or the Pope! depending on where you live - on top of the bonfire. I was severely traumatised aged 5 or 6 by the burning of my cousins' extremely life-like "Guy".
"Remember, remember the 5th of November, Gunpowder, Treason and Plot! I see no reason why Gunpowder Treason should ever be forgot!"
And unlike Advent calendars, Advent proper begins in November, 4 Sundays before Christmas. Some people put their Christmas decorations up on the 1st Sunday in Advent.
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