They inherited a plastic Christmas tree from the previous tenant in their two-bedroom apartment in this prosperous Westchester County suburb and decorated it for the season, with shiny bells, a miniature polar bear, a bow embroidered "Feliz Navidad" and a music box tucked within the branches that played "Silent Night".
Beautifully braided miniature challahs, shiny with egg wash and studded with poppy seeds, are made with yeast left over from sake brewing.
Bartholuzzi is a car enthusiast, but he doesn't create pristine miniatures of shiny vintage collector's pieces his cars are rusty and bombed out, with broken windsheields and popped hoods already raided for parts.
Bortholuzzi is a car enthusiast, but he doesn't create pristine miniatures of shiny vintage collector's pieces his cars are rusty and bombed out, with broken windshields and popped hoods already raided for parts.
It is a picture in autumn, with masses of tiny, shiny, vivid red fruits, like miniature rosehips, twinkling among foliage of scarlet and gold.
Just beyond a derelict chain-link fence, a man with a beard spotted pea-sized green balls dangling from a miniature awning of shiny oval leaves.
Ideas include: shiny glass pebbles, river pebbles, pavers, miniature statues, solar lights, terracotta worms, wooden insects, wooden flowers, candlelight holders, faerie lights (with adult supervision only), and so on.
The result of that sale was a beautiful wooden miniature bowling set with three shiny black balls (how did that mother ever manage to keep all the pins together?) and an excellent sand truck.
Sebastian Gladstone's digital paintings are like miniature island utopias shiny, colorful, and bright, but with something uncanny looming in the distance.
