Making a Stable

I had needed a stable for a couple of new scenes for the Christmas at the North Pole book, so had set one up on the dining room table....

It worked so well in photos, that I thought I'd use it for some other scenes as well, including Baron and Naomi and their children. But all the Christmas decorations had to go first...

I had put the stable together using all kinds of stuff I had on hand. I used a different fabric to cover the table, and used a mix of different wall units for the walls. The horse's stalls were suggested by using the styrofoam arch and pillars set against the wooden 'cathedral railing', and the wooden dividers of the stalls themselves were the head and footboards from Baron and Naomi's bed.

Then I added props one might find in a stable. I had purchased small bales of hay at Michaels years ago for some Halloween photos, and kept them in a large zip lock bag. Several had fallen apart over the years, and I sprinkled the loose hay all over the floor.  After finishing the photography, I gathered up most of the bits of hay to save for future use, (yes, I keep EVERYTHING) and then vacuumed up the rest, as well as the dining room floor, and other rooms in my house that the bits of hay had wandered into.