Behind Some Forest Dweller Scenes

When we were working on turning the Forest Dweller Christmas story into a book, it became clear that it needed a few more scenes towards the end of the book. So I had to set up the entire set from three years ago again. Thankfully I always take photos of my sets just in case I ever need to duplicate them again. This was the original set....

Back then I'd used two different room settings - the one above plus a separate dining room -  but I just needed the one with the kitchen and the music corner on the far right. So I set the entire thing back up, making sure every detail was exactly the same - and took the photos of the menfolk cleaning up the kitchen...

...and washing the dishes...

Another additional scene for the book was with everyone relaxing in the 'music room' at the far right corner of the set...

I took a lot of photos...

By that time the kitchen part of the set was a major disaster area with props and furniture from the previous two scenes just piled in there out of the way....

Gingerbread Houses

One of our daughters-in-law has a birthday at the very end of November, and she enjoys doing something together, so we all got together at our house to bake and decorate little gingerbread houses. These were the two I made....along with a little gingerbread tree....

Jan made a little church and lighthouse but didn't feel like decorating them. They all spent the Christmas season on display at the end of our kitchen table - although by the time of the photo below Jan had already eaten his church....

Anyways, every time we make the tiny gingerbread houses together, I'm always inspired to use them in doll photos. And since the dining room table was already occupied with a Medieval castle interior, I set up a little scene for my Forest Dwellers on the end of the kitchen table. ​I used both trees from the castle in the other room, plus two pieces of furniture to fill in the spaces and hide my kitchen in the background.

Then it becomes a matter of getting down low enough to take the photos straight at the little critters' eye level....

...and take lots of close ups....