Tiny Treasures

I love miniatures - I really admire handcrafted pieces filled with detail. I've tried my hand at making a few tiny treasures over the years. I want to show you one I made for my sister Beth - she has recently lent it back to me so that I could take a few pics.

  I gave her a necklace consisting of a chinese lantern and a few glass beads on a leather cord. Tucked inside the lantern are the  details of a wonderful story I found in the magazine Awake! It's a story of a girl, raised in China, who was given away at 3 yrs. of age because her family was too poor to feed her. The family who took her in put her to work in their rice paddies and she never went to school. When she was of age she was given, in an arranged marriage, to a man who owned a Chinese Restaurant   in the U.S. where she was expected to be a "charming and gracious" hostess. She bore 7 children in a little over 9 years and soon after, suffering from exhaustion and seeing no way out, she had a "breakdown" and tryed to take her life. She was rushed to the hospital though and recovered. From here the story takes an amazing upward turn as a kind, white-haired lady comes into her restaurant, The Red Dragon . . .

     Inside this nutshell version I included a book containing her life story (complete with pockets containing pictures and letters from her life), a menu from The Red Dragon (as I imagine it to have been), a small folded paper fan, 2 tiny Fortune Cookies (with "fortunes" giving clues to the outcome of the story) and a little doll I made from wood beads. 

Comments

[eleonora bracci]

ciao .. le tue opere sono incredibili ... I am in love con le tue opere piccolo ... come posso acquistarli? dove posso trovarli?
Un fan italiani! Ciao, Eleonora

[daisies]

tiny treasures so rock!! i just ordered a teeny tiny camera the other day .. i love the treasures you made your sister, lovly ...