Garden in a box

I finally started a project that my whole family could be involved with. We are building a miniature garden inside a box with mixed materials. Here you can see Mr. Mole inside a magic circle of toadstools.
Mr. Mole and Cat next to the vegetable patch.

Top view of the garden.

Top view of the whole garden. This garden is still in progress. We are going to add rocks, trees and flowers later.

Not your usual ornaments

I like stop motion animation. Sometimes I wish I could be sitting in a studio, sculpting tiny little characters for a stop motion video.

Anyway, we recently watched Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were Rabbit. I immediately fell in love with Gromit (who doesn't like a dog who could take care of its owner?). I just have to make a Gromit for my tree.




Wrap a scarf around him and he's all ready for Christmas. I love having my Gromit on my tree!


This black creature here is a Mokona. I made him because husband and I are fans of xxxHolic. Mokona is surprisingly hard to make.


And this little guy in red is a Daruma...I know, you're probably wondering what is a Buddhist monk doing on a Christmas tree...I just love Daruma very much (and kappa, manekineko, kokeshi doll...etc)!

Roast penguins and other festive animals

Last year we didn't decorate our Christmas tree. And it was also the very first time in my life that I have a Christmas tree. So this year I determined to decorate it with my own hand made ornaments. First, I started out with some roast penguins...




And a teddy bear.

My daughter likes tiger so I made her one.




She likes dinosaur too.

And I know my husband's family has a thing for pigs so we have to have a pig on the tree.

After putting these animals on the tree, I realized the tree is more about who we are and what we like. I am quite pleased with it.

One, Two, Three, Four

Who do we love more?
The darumas four.
Of course!
Of course!

I'm so ready for Halloween!