Behind the Scenes

Some Behind-the-Scene shots from Sena's birthday story....

​First, of Leona making the cake....on my kitchen counter....

I wanted a 'wardrobe', but the old jewelry box I had wasn't quite tall enough....

 So Jan built an extension out of scraps of mahogany, to fit underneath....

After staining and varnishing, it was a perfect match....

The bedroom used the old Art Studio walls. For the bed, I pushed one of the Victorian sofas up against the fireplace to create a headboard.  The rest of the bed is made of an old, acrylic, record-player lid, covered with a folded towel, and some print fabric intended to become a shirt for me some day.  It was a huge piece, and folded inside out, but I was lazy, so just used with the more muted, wrong side out. Much of the furniture is 'heirloom', passed down from Victorian times, so to give the room a more contemporary feel, I hung up some floral paintings, as well as the needlepoint birds (passed down from Victorian Times), and tossed a pile of modern print pillows on the bed. 

To give the wardrobe a 'magical glow' inside, I duct-taped a string of Christmas lights inside....

Sometimes one or two lights showed in a photo, and I tried blowing it out with a 'lens flare', but I thought it seemed like too much, so in the end I didn't post any of those.

The party scenes on the patio were shot a month ago, in September, when the garden was still nice.  Like usual, I set up on the patio table, but I switched out the huge red begonia in the urn in the background, for my streptocarpus with the small purple flowers....

The scene set up on the patio, with pots of million bells around the edges....

The final, cropped-in photo, taken at the doll's eye level.....