I made this miniature house as a gift for a friend who is retiring from sales and moving to Tennessee to build cabins in the woods. So I made a cabin out of woods.
He is a Christian and I was inspired by Jesus’ sermon in Matthew 7 “Therefore, everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock.”
So I started with a chunk of Tennessee flagstone as the foundation, mounted on a matching slab of Florida cypress. The oak door and windows were cut from a piece of recycled pallet.
The front door sets the scene and scale of the building. 
Flagstone base on cypress. 
This little door knob took about an hour to cut, sand, oil, and attach. 
Functioning hinge and oak twigs as window panes. 
Back wall, front door made from oak bark. 
I found this hollow log in the woods, then drilled the hole for the window. I’ll hide the black battery pack with ivy leaves next. 
You can’t see the green wallpaper I hung inside but I used felt as a ceiling and bamboo as rafters. 
Black felt will support the pine cone shingles. 
It took four pine cones sectioned, sorted by size and color, then glued. 
Grape vines with tendrils. 
Attached silk grape leaves, then landscaping. 
The lichens are natural but I added various mosses. 
Nestled in the Zinnias. 
Shadow approves. 
Soft sunrise. 
Bushy plastic Protea in the front yard.
One photo I forgot to take would have revealed the 30 miniature LED lights, both in the main floor and tower.
Cardboard Palm 