One Project Ends, Another Begins

I finished the final rug.  I think that might have set a land speed record for me.  The big rug took around five months.  This one (which is considerably smaller) took two weeks.  It's not an exact match to the original, but I think it's close enough.

You can see it in place in the photo below.  It just fits!

Now that it's truly finished, the library has moved to a bookshelf.  The shelf it's on is almost perfectly at eye level, which makes peeking into the room a delightful experience.  😊

So happy with my little treasure.

And now it’s on to other projects.  As promised, I have gone back to the Fairfield to finish a few things.  I've started with the kitchen garden, since what I most felt like doing was making miniature plants.  Isn’t it wonderful how making miniatures involves so many different skills and elements?  If you get tired of doing one thing, you can just do something else for a while.  Anyway, here is the start of my garden.

I made a set of steps patterned on the front steps to the Fairfield (although not quite as wide).  They will fit in the gap I left in the foundation.  They have been attached to a piece of bass wood cut to fit in the "L" of the Fairfield, although it is a bit deeper and will extend somewhat beyond the right side.  I had to have enough space for a decent garden, after all.  The wood has been painted brown and covered with dried coffee grounds as soil.  I still have a lot of the egg carton stone I used on the foundation, so I put some of it to work to make a little walkway.  Mostly I just filled in between the stones with coffee grounds, but I also added a bit of moss made from flock.  The chickens are so excited!  They are looking for bugs and seeds, although I'm afraid they won't find either.  (Keep your eyes peeled, though, when I post pictures of the finished garden.)   I’ve started making some vegetables, and guess whose tutorial I found on the Web? Our own Jodi of My Miniature Madness has a great, simple tutorial for a vegetable garden that I’ve been adapting to work in half scale!

I’ll provide information on how I made the various vegetables when I post the finished garden, but for now, I’ll leave you with some pictures that will give you a hint as to some of the things I’m “planting.” ;-)

Have a great mini week, everyone!