Uncle Rich's Birthday

Uncle Rich said he wanted to go to the House of Miniatures for his birthday, in addition to going out for dinner, of course.  The House of Miniatures is just that - all miniatures that were collected by one lady.  She added onto her house twice to hold all of them and finally created a museum for them.  It was very interesting and we all enjoyed it.  She is still adding collections to her museum and they said she can often be found in the museum cleaning her miniatures.  We took a little tour which gave us much more information.  There were several small houses with miniatures plus other displays.  The oldest house with miniatures in it was around 200 years old.

 

 

This violin had all small violins hanging on a line along with tools to make them.  They were all in a violin of normal size.  We were told that all of these tiny, little violins could be played and the small tools were all working tools.  I took this picture for my favorite violinist.

 

 

 In one of the rooms, they had a glass insert on the floor and a Christmas village under the glass.  I would love this in my house - what a unique, fun way of displaying a village.

 Small silver Dutch windmills....

 The small bottles of liquor in this display case had the actual liquor in them or so they told us.

 The collector lady bought this miniature gold house with all the tiny furniture, etc from an auction house on the east coast.  It was too large to ship in one piece so it had to be taken apart.  It was quite impressive.

When you all come to visit the next time, I'll take you here.  It was a fun way to spend a morning.

We went to Culver's on the way home for a treat and then went to Sweet Tomatoes for dinner with Rick, Shakayla and Jaylynn.  I think Uncle Rich had a good birthday.

Love to all,
Gramma and MOM