Mini Version

Found recently this sweet book in my local shop. At first I didn't notice . It was just a nice kids book. Looking closer revealed that this was really a jem!
This "The Princes and the Pea" is a mini version. All set and taken by Lauren Child and Polly Borland.
The scenes are so real yet obviously miniatures. The figures are paper dolls full of character. These are actually beautiful collages! Here are just a few examples:

Patie Johnson's summer

Patie Johnson's mini creations are my favourites lately. I love the quality and feel. I learn so much from her about architecture and design.
last year I built this open roof summer house - it is summer again, and a very very hot one.
A good time to use the house again. this time I kept the decore natural and earthy.
The end tables were a gift made especially for me by a colleague.The blue vase is Amnon Israeli's.
wall decor are ice cream sticks and buttons.
Look up patie's shop on http://www.etsy.com/shop/minisx2?ref=seller_info_count .

5th grade shoebox house

They said that this was absolutely their favorite work through out this school year.
No wonder- I put my heart into it.

I'm proud to present a glimpse- you can see the rest on my other blog : www.paperycraft.blogspot.co.il, which I title : Neo- creating.

Last days of spring

Its usually the poppies which are the last to bloom before its getting realy hot....
The pomegranates bloom and the oranges call out to be picked at last.

Gili in the Mini World

 Gili is my niece, she is 21, and this is her first performance in the mini world. She wanted to make "a bedroom for a young lady"
We both loved the result.

My home, my country- Israel is 64 !

This is not the podium to preach , but every year when this date comes, I'm getting sentimental and patriotic and sad and furious at the same time.
Still alone in the region, still alone and more and more isolated in the world we do still stand.   Thanks  God I was born in the second half of the twentieth century, thank god I was born here ih Haifa. Not in America nor  in Afganistan. This place here  is good enough.
It is good enough for its people, Jewish or non Jewish. Very few of our neighbors in the Bedouin villages of Bosmat Tivon, Zwidat and Chilf ( all those are the local Bedouin tribes) think otherwise.
We all just have to look around at the "Arab Spring " swiping Egypt, Libya and Syria
 to make us so upset.
We wonder what do those "Peace forces people " from Danmark, Sweden, France and England think?
We are not the new Nazis! See how Arabs treat their fellow citizens all around us!
Compare a bit .....
I'm going to celebrate .
Happy 64th aniversary Israell!

Three Ladies

.......I'm in love with this tint Russian couple. They were found on etsy and go together so well with the art work of the three ladies and their shopping bags!

I got lately so many exciting minis , I just had to display them , at once….

It has taken me sometime  to get the photos right thoug.

Oese sent me those lovely sideboards I wanted for such a long time. I fixed one of them adding a missing handle ( a black rubber board was just handy)

Patie from:  minisx2  (http://www.etsy.com/shop/minisx2) sent this awesome coffee tablewhich was naturally added.

Some other tiny wonders produced by  Dave Williams of Harvington Miniatures

 http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/smallartist on the side board proudly displayed.

 The latest is the fruit bowl  on the coffee table - a wonderful lampwork glass bead done by

http://www.etsy.com/people/gaialai  a local artist I discover on Etsy.com and fell in love with her work.

The Persian rug on the floor is a Design Magazine contribution ( Binyan Vediyur).

Enjoy!