Adventures in Small Land.

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The Mames have a new house, which arrived today.  A Lundby Småland + extension.  

Their first house was a wooden Early Learning Center house (purchased secondhand from eBay in 2009).  Nothing fancy but I like the dimensions of the rooms.  It's still very much a work in progress, I'm happy with how it's coming together so far though. 

They also have the Playmobil Vacation Cottage & Family Vacation Home A-frame, which I love, but they're a little on the small side for the Mames.  

Mame Momokos are an awkward size.  They're 9cm tall, but are super-deformed, so finding what works with them has been a little tricky, & I've found that i have to use a mix of scales in the furniture for them.  I'm admittedly dreadful when it comes to weights & measures, so getting used to dollhouse scales has been a slow process, but I'm getting there.  

Why "Fragments of Bean".. 

1. Mame in Japanese means bean

2. In reference to The Borrowers, in which people are referred to (by The Borrowers) as "human beans", a mispronunciation of human beings.

3. "Fragments of Bean" is borrowed (& mispronounced) from Maurice Merleau-Ponty's The Visible & the Invisible:

"There is a meeting ground which is Being itself...each experiences 

himself given over to a body, to a situation, through them to being, 

and what he knows of himself passes entirely over to the other the 

instant he experiences the others' medusan power.  Hence each one knows that he himself and the others are inscribed in the world;  what he feels, what he lives, what the others feel and live, even his dreams or their dreams, his illusions and theirs, are not islets, isolated fragments of 

being:  all this, by reason of the fundamental exigency of our c

onstituitive nothingness, is of being, has consistence, order, 

meaning, and there is a way to comprehend it."