For April, we asked you to tickle our funny bones by sharing a picture of a miniature with a joke or pun embedded in the scene.
We had multiple challenge samples this month.
From Preble McDaniel:
A plant that grows houses would be a houseplant, right?
From Alician Pearce:
This is my Cranberry Cottage garden. Lots of interesting plants and "weeds" grow in my garden. If you know me personally, you know that I have a black thumb and I do not water or weed my gardens, so it is a free for all.
From Terry Unnold:
Behold the Arabian Nights Retirement Home in all its decrepit glory!
From Barbara Thornton-Hill:
My princess had a rough night.
From Cat Wingler:
The mummy is trying to head out for a stroll.
Here are the beautiful submissions.
From Jackie Browder:
I made this dollhouse during the Splintered Fairytale Party. The whole tower is full of jokes: Flying pigs and the angry neighbor barbecuing pork, drunk Princess and the Pea who crashed her carriage, oddly scaled leftovers and trip souvenirs that didn't fit in any other dollhouse, Prince Punz (twisted take on Rapunzel) who had a long beard, and more not even shown in the photos.
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From Cindy Botasso:
Not sure if this is a joke or just an oddity
I just really wanted to have a submarine crash into this beautiful Victorian
The tower does light up and laugh at you when you pull a lever on the side.
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From Martha Bates:
This is a room box I created showing Dr. P. Ray Mantis in his office/laboratory examining "strange and unusual" items such as a human skull, a jar of eyeballs and a human brain! Quite unique, huh!?! The joke is on us; in the end, the bugs win!
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From Joyce Welch:
Living in Louisiana you might have a porcelain throne but getting to it could be a challenge.
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From Kirsten Smolensky:
One of my favorite pieces of furniture- a trick table with the “short” leg propped up by a book entitled, “How to make miniature furniture by Tom Walden”. The drawer has no bottom and instead has a piece of paper that says “Oooops!”
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From Kathy Koons:
This is my salute to the hilarious musical Once Upon a Mattress, which is inspired by the story of "The Princess and the Pea". The king and courtiers are so anxious for her to succeed that they stuff her bed with all manner of uncomfortable items.
If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend the 1964 Carol Burnett version, which you can find on YouTube
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From Ruth Goodger:
Usually, it’s the cat watching the fish tank but in this camper scene in half scale it’s the dog!
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From Vicki Scidmore:
The funniest episode of Star Trek was when the ship was overwhelmed by cute, fuzzy, and rapidly reproducing Tribbles. My scene (in a Star Trek lunch box) shows Kirk and the crew pondering what to do!
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From Anita Meyers:
Sugarplum Sweet Shoppe - Get Your Buns in Here!
Mr. Sassy - A Mermaid’s Lair
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From Debby Albert:
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From Elizabeth Lubera:
This month I am submitting two photos that relate to one of my miniatures that has often surprised – or, some might event say, “pranked” – viewers.
Photo one shows the front cover of a book that I wrote, called The Little House on Willow Tree Place, overlaid with a two page spread from the same book. As I often explain to someone reading the book, it is a visual visit to a Victorian house of long ago. The family that lives in the house (which includes a father, mother, a college-age daughter and two younger sons) has gone out for the day. We are – through the pages of the book -- taking a peek inside the house to see what life was like during Victorian times. The open two-page spread of the book – featuring the kitchen of the house – shows the preparations being made for the evening meal, including: the round table set for five (including the baby’s high chair) with Blue Onion-patterned plates, a pot roast warming up on the stove, a rolling pin on the sideboard (cook is preparing a pie), and even a broken egg on the floor!
Photo two is the actual photo of the kitchen from the house.
Here is the fun part: when I read the book aloud to groups (of all ages), they often ask if it is possible to schedule a visit to see this magnificent house in person. It is then that I tell them the wonderful surprise: that the house featured in the book is a not “real house” but rather a miniature house, one that I created myself over many years. This miniature house, which I call “the Little House on Willow Tree Place,” includes not only my own creations but exquisite miniature furnishings, books and china from my own collections. Given the level of detail evident in the rooms pictured in the book, most viewers cannot believe that the house is not “real”!
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From Judy Adamcyk:
This is my floating cup of the sorcers apprentice.
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From Jean Smith (Rusty):
The Queen said "Roses must be red" so red they will be! The playing card painters are polymer clay, wire and card. Alice is half scale as she had just drunk from the bottle!
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From Kim Fitzsimmons:
I have a room box display that is a medieval sorcerer’s cottage that is filled with magical items….dragon, Pandora’s box, Pied Piper’s pan flute. He has a well hidden (I turned the table as I couldn’t photograph in its normal location) iPhone. Was time travel involved? He’s not telling.
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From Mary Johnson:
This is one of the miniatures I made to go in my Tucson Centerpiece "Night at the Museum".
It's titled ......"I don't know much about art, but I know what I like!" Hope you like it I had fun making this one from scratch!
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From Dia Crissey-Baum:
Boy do I have one for you!
It’s called “The Greasy Spoon.” Some of you might have seen it at the NAME or Atlanta exhibits.
I thought it would be funny to make a diner but make cockroaches the customers and tiny humans the vermin. Check out the waitress’ beehive. You can’t see it but the girl’s skirt has a cockroach instead of a poodle on it and the boy is being a little “handsy” with her (since he can get friendly and munch a sandwich at the same time! Multitasking!)
Here’s a link to the album; there’s one more picture that I didn’t attach.
https://1drv.ms/a/s!ApUx-TbCbpTql3NBdEi4Cuic2h5b
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From Jackie Fullerton:
Tommy decided it would be a good April fools joke to gather up the mice from the barn and bring them into the kitchen, thus scaring poor Annie to death as she jumps onto a chair. His impish grin shows he is truly a jokester.
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From Carol Shea:
Very bad hospitality!
Even after 3 bottles of wine I still can't sleep in that bed. Wonder where that other bottle went? Did my baby dragon decide to celebrate?
