Happy Mardi Gras!

Happy Mardi Gras- Shrove Tuesday! I have some miniature 1:6 scale Mardi Gras "King Cakes" I have just made. 

 

Happy Hinamatsuri- The Girls' Day Festival

On the third day of the third month, in Japan, little girls celebrate the festival known as Hinamatsuri, or the Girls' day festival, also known as the Dolls' Festival. Steps are covered with red cloth, and very special ceremonial dolls are brought out of boxes, some of these dolls are handed down in families, generation after generation, to celebrate this special day. Boys have their own festival as well. 

Rumor Godden wrote two books on two little Japanese dolls- the first one was Miss Happiness  & Miss Flower. Below are my own 1:6 scale version of them, celebrating Hinamatsuri.

 

I hope you enjoyed the Hinamatsuri photos I have amassed over the years, I know I have enjoyed creating them. The books if you are interested, are by Rumor Godden and can be found on Amazon or ebay- Miss Happiness & Miss Flower and the sequel was Little Plum. 

Miss Happiness & Miss Flower tells how Nona, a lonely little girl befriends two Japanese dolls and there are even plans how to build a japanese dolls house and garden , and in the sequel, Little Plum, it explains about Hinamatsuri and how they recreate the Dolls' Festival in miniature.