Wonderland

I hope you will enjoy this tour of "Wonderland."  I am so proud of this house because it was commissioned as a birthday gift from a Mom to her grown son who loves "Alice in Wonderland." I was so intrigued when I was asked to create a fairy house with this theme.  It was challenging, it took a lot of scouring the internet & library for pictures and reminders of the story and another watch of Tim Burton's version of the story to spur my creative juices.  If you know the story than you will see how I've created Alice's English countryside on the top of the log complete with a rabbit hole which leads to the inside of the house.  Then Wonderland starts emerging on the sides and into the base.  Thanks to my Dad for his help constructing the a house under the log...it wouldn't have been turned out otherwise!  Please go to the Decorative House page to read "Wonderland's" story.

"If you are looking for a world of your own, where everything would be nonsense.  Where nothing would be what it is because everything would be what it isn't.  And contrary-wise; what it is it wouldn't be, and what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?"...Lewis Carroll

View of Wonderland from the front with the key hole front door. 

Close-up

Queen of Hearts four poster bed.  Notice the checkerboard floor!

Beside the table is a bottle of "Drink Me" potion and a key...which door does it open?

Anyone for tea?

Here are is the "tripping" mushroom fields presided over by the caterpillar & hooka pipe I made out of clay.  The mushrooms were found locally and dried for a few months.  I used baby's breath for the flowers here.

Inside the settee made of wood, twigs & playing cards.

A view of the rear of "Wonderland" which is to pay homage to the manicured gardens of the Queen of Hearts.  Tread carefully here or it's off with your head!  The topiary frog is from a crafts store and the flowers are silk.

An Aerial view of the lush English Garden grass...watch out for the rabbit hole... the fast way to get inside the house!

Silk ferns add some greenery to the tea party.

It's time for tea!

Here is everything you need for a traditional tea; the tea, cake, cupcakes, petite fours, cherry & blueberry pie, cucumber sandwiches and playing card cookies.

I made the Mad Hatters Hat from clay and I used stick pins with beads to make the hat pins.

Thank god for flea markets where I found this adorable pocket watch.  You wouldn't want to be late for very important date!

One of my many dried mushrooms!

Mushrooms & Baby's Breath

Close-up of the Caterpillar

The rabbit hole.