MY bone
I've been waiting all my life for a bone like this!
oh crap
sigh......
Gnome Home-Needle felted tree stump playscape
FOR SALE: Magical Luxury Villa, 606 Forest Floor Way-Loft/Studio space, pond view, spacious interior with a nice mushroom garden, a quiet and friendly neighborhood, close to the Cricket Kindergarten, a good location: 5 minutes from downtown Snail Square, the Toad and Stool Pub and Forest Mini Market.
Listing Price: 6 acorns, 2 snails and a pile of leaves
The gnome seller of this beautiful home must sell quickly as he’s bought a mushroom condo in a warmer climate. -Please contact Forest and Fauna Fairy Real Estate agent Laura Lee Burch to make an offer.
The tree stump has a spacious interior "home space".
I’ve deemed myself a fairy real estate broker, qualified to help fairy folk find the home that best suits them.
Let your imagination run wild!
I’m holding an open house at the property: Come one, come all! Truffle Beer and gnome nummies will be served.
Open house guests mingle in the garden
Red spotted Mushroom houses
Welcome to the fungi neighborhood! I’ve wanted to make a habitat for awhile now, so I started with the mushroom houses and this is what I’ve come up with. I had some industrial felt sitting around, I decided to use this because I needed a firm material for the base of the house. The industrial felt is so hard you can’t felt into (it is about 1/4″ thick and comes in many thicknesses) but it’s perfect for “building”.
Needle felted and felt Mushroom house.
I really got into the felt details of the mushroom stem, in this house I’ve added a rabbit, deer and owl into the flower and vine design.
- An owl in the forest, felt detail
Deer in the forest, felt detail.
I had needle felted the tops of the mushrooms earlier as hats, so I reused the hats for the mushroom caps. The houses have 2 floors; you enter the bottom floor by entering the front door and you can access the top floor by lifting off the mushroom cap.
- There are two floors in the mushroom houses.
The upper floor of the mushroom house.
The mushroom houses are the perfect size for my wood-felt-wool dolls!
Imaginative play with mushroom houses and wooden-felt-wool dolls.
You can find both of these mushroom houses for sale on my Etsy site: http://www.etsy.com/shop/lauraleeburch
Laughing Marie Antoinette
I decided to change my Laura Lee Burch Studio Facebook page photo to something fun, so I donned my Marie Antoinette felt wig and asked my oldest daughter Lili to shoot some photos of me. She must have taken 50 photos of me or more, none of which I thought did Marie nor I justice. I just felt like I had a plastic face (my girls make modeling look so easy-it’s not), then Lili told me she thought I looked like a drag queen in this wig, which made me laugh really hard and voila-I like this picture. My kids say the darnest things to me like, you know mama, if you dyed your hair you wouldn’t look so old and if you put more cream on your face you wouldn’t be so wrinkly! My youngest daughter asked me recently if I voted for Abraham Lincoln and she asked if I had ever seen a real dinosaur!!! She also once told me that I was a real mother felter, which I wasn’t sure was a compliment or a misguided insult disguised as a compliment.
I'm trying not to laugh
Are those train tracks around your eyes? Lili assured me that I didn’t look bad and that I’d be 28 this year on my birthday (since I was 29 last year-I have a Jack Benny/Benjamen Button thing going on). We decided that if the wig was blue, I could pass for Marge Simpson; that gives me an idea for the upcoming Halloween costume! All I need now is a doughnut for Doron and we’re set as Marge and Homer.
Emili wearing a wool Marie Antoinette wig
Marie Antoinette has played a major role in my artwork for the last several years. I made this wool wig for Emili to wear in a fashion show; it was so big she could barely walk in it! The Marie Antoinette dress was the most popular princess costume in my shop.
Marie Antoinette princess costume
I think it’s the elegance and excess that appeals to me about Marie, she was something that I’m not. I don’t wear makeup or big puffy dresses. The last time I wore a big, puffy dress, the girls were little and they crawled up under it and used it as a tent, while I was wearing it! Even my puppets have gotten into the action.
Needle felted Marie Antoinette Puppet and Emili in matching wig and dress.
This Marie Antoinette puppet is one of my favorite pieces; I woman bought her last year after she persuaded me to sell her. I was paid a pretty penny for her, but I had this emotional attachment to her. I felt terrible after I sold this puppet. I said I’d make another one, but I haven’t yet…..I will.
Needle felted/sewn Marie Antoinette puppet
