I think this is a cunning plan. It's so relaxing that I fall asleep and wake up and it's over so I watch it again, I fall asleep and wake up, rinse and repeat.
If I were a borrower a glove would be so useful , for making small articles of clothing…socks, under ware, tank tops from the fingers, or pillows and the body could be sheets….a knit pair of gloves could be made into a winter sweater or blanket, leather gloves for shoe making , or a squirrel saddle, or a very sturdy hammock…..😊 I loved the borrowers….your crafting is so sweet , thanks for sharing.✨p.s. paper clips are easier to make hangers……and for your kitchen, small tea tin with the top and side cut out, wood or coal inside and a piece of screen for the top of the bbq…..champagne cage tops for chairs, buttons for plates, a saucer on a spool for a table, metal measuring spoons for pots ( handles cut) acorn mugs, toothpaste tops for cups, glass salt seller w/ spoon for serving, a crystal toothpick holder for a vase…..I think I need to build something✨……toodles! Can’t wait for you next video! 😊
Your sweet voices and calming chit-chat make this channel a healing place! I wish I could turn back time and spend my daughter’s childhood all over again. There would be a lot more time spent enjoying her company! You’re blessed to have these moments together, and I’m blessed by your sharing 😊
Best books ever! I was obsessed as a little girl, and made a house in my bottom drawer for borrowers! My brother wrote little notes ont tiny paper, and mover furniture around, so for a long time a believed we might just possibly have borrowers! When i got back from summer camp, he had left a not saying they had gone off traveling, and would remember me always. Best older brother ever.
I’m only half way in and this is, without a shadow of doubt, the bestest most perfect and fabulous thing ever in the history of the world. I love you two women and all you stand for.
I think I’m going to leave a message on all my other sites, the appropriate ones, to send people here. I watch some crafting sites and think some is there watchers would appreciate your miniature world😊. Let’s get you to 25K or 50K!
Oh, please don't stop adding all of the beautiful little detail you put into all of your works! I love a nice, cozy, busy little room with so many things to see!!
The Borrowers was a book we read in school. Our teacher would read aloud to us after lunch break. That was in the late 70s and I think I need to read it again.
I don’t think that your creations are overcrowded. Please continue to be your wonderful selves. ♥️♥️♥️ Definitely and most importantly, these are treasure-troves… an expression not used to describe an orderly and clinical display of a collection. If you were creating a space for a child to use for play, of course, that would be completely different (not to mention so many things being lost). Or if you were accurately re-creating a historical space for a museum, there’s no space for the inhabitants to move around, so it would be unrealistic. However, that’s not what you are doing. You are creating amazing spaces to display the amazing things you make, find, purchase and are given. To “spread them out” as some might wish, you would need innumerable dollhouses (which I suspect could be the destination where you’ll end up anyway). For the visitor, these are not spaces to be glanced at. These are spaces to explore with your eyes. To discover on the next visit something you didn’t notice last time. Thank you for taking the time and effort to film not just your creations, but your creative process! ♥️
You 2 are so lucky to have each other. My momma died when I was 9 and Id give anything to hold her hand again. Please cherish these times together. Theyre so special. Thank you for sharing your world to us. Youre so creative and your cat is a cutie too. 😊 Much ❤ from Nashville TN USA 🇺🇸
Nothing as delightful as the Borrowers. At 66 I have the full collection of books. I think it would be lovely to take the safety pin ladder her father used to climb and stick it in the uppermost floor with the rope hanging down. This has to be my favorite project you’ve done thus far! Time to sit down and reread the series to get ideas.
I'm also 66 and have the full series. I also remember Pod's hat pins with the ribbons which helped him climb things, and the half scissor. Spiller borrowed some of these from the hole in the bank in Borrowers Afield when they lived in the boot.
please fill the teacup with knitting and craft supplies, right now it seems like a chamber pot! i love what you've done, and really enjoyed your kitty purring, it made me so happy!
letters to wallpaper their room, postage stamps to hang on their wall, and old chess pieces that they use as statues are all things I found that borrower's like to borrow.😂 matchboxes for dressers and trinket boxes for furniture.
😍I find that the most interesting people are what I call "people of clutter". Their homes are full of wonderful things that they love, often (many) animals, and they will welcome you into their home and tell you to perch where you can for a cookie or a tea any time. And they never worry that there's a bit of fur or some dust, because we are all just dust anyway. I love that there is something to look at everywhere you look in your miniatures. And I love your lovely channel. Happiest of Holidays!
I'm 70 years old and have never heard the story of the Borrowers. I have dyslexia so I'll look it up for audio books. Thank you so much for sharing this adorable project. It's so very precious! Thank you also for including Mr. Sonny Cat. He is just too stinkin' cute. I have a kitty that looks just like him. His name is Dusty. I hope you have a blessed Christmas and perhaps you'll get another video out before then. My favorite ladies on TH-cam. ❤ xx
The borrowers were a BBC series too, I estimate in like, the early nineties, so I wonder if it would be possible to stream it from somewhere, or even go treasure hunting for the dvd boxset? (Or, dare I admit that I am THIS old?) On Vhs, to commit to dvd?)
there was a movie made in the 90s (i think) with John Goodman, as well. ❤ #xcellent story, I hope you find a version to enjoy. I may look for an audiobook too, now that you mention it- Have a re-read after all this time. 😊
Sunny would have had me hooked in with his soothing purr, even if you hadn't made me blissfully enthralled with the Borrowers theme. That was one of my favorite storybook series as a child, because what child is not a scavenger/forager/Borrower at heart? Or, what mudlarker, for that matter? You have both nailed the tastes and characters of Arietty and Homily, perfectly. I'm even jealous of your artfully lithographed sardine tin. We don't see such exotic tins on this side of the pond, alas. I can hardly wait to see the kitchen and parlor, and Pod's ingenious tools of trade! Brava, ladies! Well done!
Loved the books, and I remember saying "The borrowers took it" when something was displaced. I've been looking for an old wooden clock to do this, and I might just do my own borrower's house.
@@pbonniejean as soon as I can find a clock! I loved the Borrowers books. I think my Mom read them at some point too, but not sure when. It was a long time ago. 😀
@@Hippiechick11 I first read them in school, the first one. I later bought them for my daughters bedtime stories, and then my grandkids. They're now being read to my great grands! I'm 73 years young.
Oh wow! I haven’t heard about the Borrowers since I was a kid. Growing up in California, I loved when we had the Book-Mobile come to my school and picking books I wanted to read and watching the 1970s t.v. movie, The Borrowers. I might look for that book to give to my nieces to read. 😁
I love the way you are kind and let Sunny cat “help”! He is so cute with his tongue hanging to the right! 😆 You are both so creative. I love the Borrowers clock, what a great idea! Fleur you have created a wonderful life for and relationship with your kiddos. God bless
Oh, how wonderful! I have just shared The Borrowers with my 7 year old grandson. He is an absolute believer in their existence, along with the bwbach who lives in the old part of our ancient house and plays tricks on us. I will replay this video for him after school on Monday and know Sonny's pure will be a bonus for him as Binkie, his own kitten, kept us company as we read.
I’m sure I have some Borrowers in my home, so many things go missing! Your little clock rooms are precious! Please don’t take any notice of the criticism, 99% of us love the cluttered rooms!! 💕
I do live the inventiveness of the Borrowers, repurposing and reusing lost or “borrowed” things. I loved how in the Studio Ghibli film they used a flowerpot as a brick oven, and a dragonfly wing as a quill pen! So cool to see how y’all interpret what a Borrower house would look like. 😄❤️I definitely think some of your Mudlarking finds would make a fantastic kitchen. Seashell dishes and bottle cap pie tins? Can’t wait to see what y’all make!
Cat purring.....lovely touch...... the cup looks like a gozunda in the bedroom..... do you remember the little wall shelves we used to have with random treasures called 'joy boxes' in the 1950'1960's ? That's what this reminds me of...
I loved watching you transform the clock case. Your creativity is amazing and inspiring. I found my borrowers book and intend to read it! Thank you and hope to help raise your numbers!
Love love your work! The Borrowers was one of my most favourite books when I was a child. I am now nearly 72! Your channel takes me right back to an innocent time in my life, when imagination was all! Thanks so much 💐
I’m searching frantically for a perfect Borrowers home. Scouring antique centres/shops etc but meanwhile am gathering adorable things so that I’m ready to play. It’s half the fun anticipating but also frustrating. It’s so tempting to actually ‘borrow’ from my dollhouses. Anyway can’t wait for next instalment you lovely people who make watching one of the most relaxing therapeutic activities and not just for children but for oldies like myself. Love to you both and a kiss for Sunny? Sonny cat who loves to be in on the act especially if there is an interesting whiff.
I just love all your little finds. Reminds me when I was little and stayed with my Nana. She had all of these types of things. I just love how you put it all together.
I enjoy all the dolls houses you make, but the ones you decorate with "found" stuff or mudlark finds are by far my favourite!! The Borrowers are the ideal setting I guess. Love it!🥰🇳🇱
I love this project!!!! I read The Borrower's years ago as a child and was enamored of it right off. As a child in a poor family myself, I made accessories for my Barbie dolls out of found items too. Many Kleenex boxes were made into Barbie beds!! By the way, the Minnesota rug was a sweet surprise!! I live in Austin, Minnesota!! It is the birthplace if Spam!!! I will have to re-read The Borrowers again now!!❤🥰🥰🥰
I forgot to add- it came out PERFECT- just I'd imagine a borrower's home to look! The sardine can bed from Morocco was my favorite, and I love seeing the vintage sewing notions put to use that way.
The borrowers were my favourite to play as a child. I spent hours building little homes for them out of anything I could find. I never stopped looking for things that might be useful to them😂❤
How completely charming! I loved those books when I was a girl, but haven’t read them for probably 50 years. Time to pull them out again! I was so surprised to see “Minnesota” on something related to cigarettes. They must have had all of the states (“collect them all!”), because geographically, Minnesota is about as far north from cigarette production as one can get. 🙂
You guys have the best 'junk' - ephemera and bits! And there's no such thing as 'over cluttering' a dollshouse. It's like 'left over cake'... it just doesn't happen.
This. Is. Mine!! The borrowers? My very first step into faeries and small, and (as a verrrrrrry young girl) leaving tiny things out HOPING that the little's and the borrowers and the fairies would like. Along with that entire world. Ralph mouse and the little people... My heart has ALWAYS been there for them. And still is, with no shame and no excuses. It is what it is.
I’m 76 now and have been reading ‘The Borrowers’ books since they were first written. I live in Belfast but I used to live in Devon, near to where Mary Norton lived. I will still see some little ‘thing’ and think to myself “that would be ideal for Pod to carry home for Homily and Arriety”. Don’t forget that this family got their name from the Grandfather clock, they didn’t actually live in it but their entrance was through the worn down tile where the clock stood. I loved all of the books and still do, if I’m feeling unwell or worried about something, a few pages from Borrowers Afield will take me to that happy place where only Borrowers aficionados know about. I enjoyed your work on the clock house and didn’t see one thing that I thought was out of place for a Borrower. Lovely, thankyou. Do you have an address that I could post something to you? I’ve got a few ‘tiny’ things that I would love you to have before I throw off this mortal coil. Precious things that deserve a precious new home where they will be loved……. (And maybe found by Clock relatives or Wainscots…… who knows).
YeahMan!!! The Borrowers were also a childhood favorite of mine - over 60 years ago!!! I was thoroughly charmed then, and this video brought back those same feelings!!! Too cluttered? There is no such thing in miniature world!!!!! I think the purring enhances your zen-like process. Thanks for a very pleasant slice of time! ☮️❤️
One of my absolute favourite childhood books, loved my children, it's appeal is never-ending! Your Borrowers clock home is enchanting and so reminiscent of the books. Watching your videos is like stepping into a magical world, I can't thank you enough! x
I always prefered burrower miniatures to toy miniatures as they didn't just have to look - but be functional 😊 An added challenge that I delighted in 🥰
Love The Borrowers stories and I really appreciate how you use logic in the decorating. I made a small mouse house in the style of The Borrowers for my aunt. Not nearly as cute as yours! Pill boxes make wonderful storage, and I made a fireplace out of an old spice tin cut open and rolled up on one side with a metal cigar tube as a chimney. Im planning another mouse house for myself built into a 1920s cabinet radio. Just love this and all your videos!
gasp! I have been wanting to do this same project with a broken grandfather clock that came withy house. I seriously teared up a bit hearing you read the passage. 🥰🥰🥰🥰
L O V E this project idea! At 70, I had never heard of this story by Mary Norton! I am now aiming to get myself the series! Thank you for the introduction! 🧵Fleur and Kate, with your fantastic imaginations, I cannot wait to see what you come up with! ❤❤
Me neither bethbranson! Now I must go find the books. I've love miniatures all my life, and at 66 I just started decorating a giant dollhouse I purchased years ago. I'm having such a great time❤ I love that I found this channel!
So lovely to hear the precious purrs too. I miss my cats so much that just hearing the purrs and seeing Pussy's sweet little tongue sticking out and nosing into everything reminds me of their love.
OMG, my mom and I have always talked about doing a Borrowers' kind of dollhouse or room, or something. This is a great idea and I will take inspiration from it and make my own at some point.
A cork board above her desk with pins and drawings etc on it. Beads for the feet of her bed to raise it. A poster on the blue wall of a foreign country. The pram near the lady on the left to look like she is pushing it. It really is magical what you two ladies create.x
I absolutely loved this stream! I am really partial to all things whimsical. My Christmas tree is all fairies, gnomes elves, birds, little woodland creatures and many old chandelier crystals. I can hardly wait to see what you do with the rest of the clock. Thank you for all of your amazing videos, my friend and I love watching both channels!
Nothing I have ever watched on T.V. or on the Internet has provoked such a calming, child-like intrest in my soul as this video. I've newly subscribed, and I just wanted to let you know that this is the best ever
Never heard of the book, but I love British literature. You have such talent and wonderful taste, just love your miniatures. I have a vintage wind up(30day )clock, it is one of my treasures .💕
I,too, loved The Borrower books. Another similar book I loved is Twig, about a tiny girl who lived outside in the yard. Sonny's purring was a perfect (purrfect) accompaniment to your video.
Just magical! I loved The Borrowers books when I was young! There's something very soothing about both your channels, I think its your voices and the choice of gentle background music. Can't wait to see the clock house finished! ❤️🌻
I would not call it over cluttered at all! My dollhouses are stuffed full...that gives them so much character, charm, story, motion. Keep doing what you are doing! Also, I cannot express enough how much I enjoy that you are a mother and daughter team. My mom has passed on and she and I always enjoyed any crafty thing we did together. This makes me miss her and remember her so fondly. May you both be blessed in all you do.
I also love the cuttered look, I believe its like surrounding yourself with happy memories,that your eye falls across occasionally and reminds you of a pleasant time in your past.
Indeed how wonderful!! I love the fact that’s a mother and a daughter working together what’s very rare to see nowadays… And I love you magic, fantasy, wonder… Bravo!!! Keep doing this lovely work!!❤❤
Stories I also loved were "The Wombles" they also built their burrows out of anything they found while they were out cleaning the recycling from the common. I loved building their homes too!🥰
I just finished making a miniature based on the Borrowers, but I haven't edited and posted it yet. Promise I'm not copying! Mine isn't in the clock though, it's a roombox meant to be under the floor.
I saw a scene in a wall clock once. People enter the door of a clockmakers shop in the street - and it turns out to be a secret entrance to a public transport tunnel which is currently doubling as an air raid shelter...
This is so lovely. I’m 76 now and live in Belfast with my family, I did live in Devon when I was 9-12 yrs and near to where Mary Norton lived. I have loved the Borrowers and still have my set of books. Still, to this day, I can be heard saying, “this wd do for Spiller,Pod etc”. Funny enough, of all the beloved books I read to my children and grandchildren, none of them ever got ‘into’ my precious family. Another book that you may have read is The Indian in the Cupboard, if not please hunt it down. You will adore this story in miniature but which comes alive. Things that you cd maybe look for are a half scissor for Pod, fine string with knots tied in it for grappling ropes and a ground down fish hook for the end of the rope. Don’t forget, they borrowed everything before the Boy gave them the Doll’s house furniture but then they had to live from scratch when they went to live ‘Afield’. Precious and beautiful memories of my childhood.
Love all you're videos you make but today this one is my favourite and today Sunday I'm watching the Borrowers film thanku so much can't wait to see this grandmother's clock when finished and when she's finished andif you have lost or mis placed anything I wonder where it may be 😊
"...beauty in the broken bits..." Yes I agree; that is the charm of these projects... (what a fitting motto for life.)
I think this is a cunning plan. It's so relaxing that I fall asleep and wake up and it's over so I watch it again, I fall asleep and wake up, rinse and repeat.
If I were a borrower a glove would be so useful , for making small articles of clothing…socks, under ware, tank tops from the fingers, or pillows and the body could be sheets….a knit pair of gloves could be made into a winter sweater or blanket, leather gloves for shoe making , or a squirrel saddle, or a very sturdy hammock…..😊 I loved the borrowers….your crafting is so sweet , thanks for sharing.✨p.s. paper clips are easier to make hangers……and for your kitchen, small tea tin with the top and side cut out, wood or coal inside and a piece of screen for the top of the bbq…..champagne cage tops for chairs, buttons for plates, a saucer on a spool for a table, metal measuring spoons for pots ( handles cut) acorn mugs, toothpaste tops for cups, glass salt seller w/ spoon for serving, a crystal toothpick holder for a vase…..I think I need to build something✨……toodles! Can’t wait for you next video! 😊
Brilliant ideas!
Your sweet voices and calming chit-chat make this channel a healing place! I wish I could turn back time and spend my daughter’s childhood all over again. There would be a lot more time spent enjoying her company! You’re blessed to have these moments together, and I’m blessed by your sharing 😊
Best books ever! I was obsessed as a little girl, and made a house in my bottom drawer for borrowers! My brother wrote little notes ont tiny paper, and mover furniture around, so for a long time a believed we might just possibly have borrowers! When i got back from summer camp, he had left a not saying they had gone off traveling, and would remember me always. Best older brother ever.
Absolutely loved the borrowers books as a child, don't think any of the films lived up to them.
Watching this I was transported back to my childhood. A gentler time where my imagination ruled my world. Thank you, Fleur and Kate.
I’m only half way in and this is, without a shadow of doubt, the bestest most perfect and fabulous thing ever in the history of the world. I love you two women and all you stand for.
What a marvelously put statement! You are absolutely right, as well, 😄 blessings!
I think I’m going to leave a message on all my other sites, the appropriate ones, to send people here. I watch some crafting sites and think some is there watchers would appreciate your miniature world😊. Let’s get you to 25K or 50K!
I love what you are making. May I suggest that as large as the cup is that it would make a perfect chamber pot. Just an idea.
I love your new project! What a neat idea! Can't wait to see the next one!!! I hope yall have a Merry Christmas!!!
Me! Perfection.
Wonderful idea! 👍👏👏👏
Oh, please don't stop adding all of the beautiful little detail you put into all of your works! I love a nice, cozy, busy little room with so many things to see!!
The borrowers are real! I am positive! I know they will enjoy this.❤
The Borrowers was a book we read in school. Our teacher would read aloud to us after lunch break. That was in the late 70s and I think I need to read it again.
Having Sonny cat in the videos is always such a bonus! Love hearing his purr! ❤
I have always loved this book! You two are rather like the borrowers yourselves, aren't you? This is brilliant!
Yes, you hit the nail right on the head with this remark -they are just like borrowers.
The purring cat was glorious.
I loved this book as a kid
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I don’t think that your creations are overcrowded. Please continue to be your wonderful selves. ♥️♥️♥️ Definitely and most importantly, these are treasure-troves… an expression not used to describe an orderly and clinical display of a collection.
If you were creating a space for a child to use for play, of course, that would be completely different (not to mention so many things being lost). Or if you were accurately re-creating a historical space for a museum, there’s no space for the inhabitants to move around, so it would be unrealistic.
However, that’s not what you are doing. You are creating amazing spaces to display the amazing things you make, find, purchase and are given. To “spread them out” as some might wish, you would need innumerable dollhouses (which I suspect could be the destination where you’ll end up anyway).
For the visitor, these are not spaces to be glanced at. These are spaces to explore with your eyes. To discover on the next visit something you didn’t notice last time.
Thank you for taking the time and effort to film not just your creations, but your creative process! ♥️
You 2 are so lucky to have each other. My momma died when I was 9 and Id give anything to hold her hand again. Please cherish these times together. Theyre so special. Thank you for sharing your world to us. Youre so creative and your cat is a cutie too. 😊 Much ❤ from Nashville TN USA 🇺🇸
Nothing as delightful as the Borrowers. At 66 I have the full collection of books.
I think it would be lovely to take the safety pin ladder her father used to climb and stick it in the uppermost floor with the rope hanging down.
This has to be my favorite project you’ve done thus far!
Time to sit down and reread the series to get ideas.
Great idea. I was thinking there might be a collection of various ladders.
I'm also 66 and have the full series. I also remember Pod's hat pins with the ribbons which helped him climb things, and the half scissor. Spiller borrowed some of these from the hole in the bank in Borrowers Afield when they lived in the boot.
please fill the teacup with knitting and craft supplies, right now it seems like a chamber pot! i love what you've done, and really enjoyed your kitty purring, it made me so happy!
letters to wallpaper their room, postage stamps to hang on their wall, and old chess pieces that they use as statues are all things I found that borrower's like to borrow.😂 matchboxes for dressers and trinket boxes for furniture.
Magically happy video. Filled my heart with joy. Thank you ❤
I absolutely love when it’s cluttered with pretty things. 😍
The tiny anvil! So cute! 😂
😍I find that the most interesting people are what I call "people of clutter". Their homes are full of wonderful things that they love, often (many) animals, and they will welcome you into their home and tell you to perch where you can for a cookie or a tea any time. And they never worry that there's a bit of fur or some dust, because we are all just dust anyway. I love that there is something to look at everywhere you look in your miniatures. And I love your lovely channel. Happiest of Holidays!
Totally agree
Wow, I feel worthwhile now, thanks!
Beautifully said. My mother was such a person. Always welcoming. Always collecting. Just in case. 😊
The best compliments are "your home is so warm and welcoming"...
ABSOLUTELY ADORABLE... I CANT Actually imagine the Littles in these sweet little rooms. Thank you for sharing* LOVE from IDAHO USA, Julie
Your 'real life' stove is absolutely beautiful x
Bobby pins would make excellent curtain rods. Bottle caps for pie tins. Beads as balls. Spent matches as logs to burn
& a match to make a broom
I'm 70 years old and have never heard the story of the Borrowers. I have dyslexia so I'll look it up for audio books. Thank you so much for sharing this adorable project. It's so very precious! Thank you also for including Mr. Sonny Cat. He is just too stinkin' cute. I have a kitty that looks just like him. His name is Dusty. I hope you have a blessed Christmas and perhaps you'll get another video out before then. My favorite ladies on TH-cam. ❤ xx
The borrowers were a BBC series too, I estimate in like, the early nineties, so I wonder if it would be possible to stream it from somewhere, or even go treasure hunting for the dvd boxset? (Or, dare I admit that I am THIS old?) On Vhs, to commit to dvd?)
there was a movie made in the 90s (i think) with John Goodman, as well. ❤ #xcellent story, I hope you find a version to enjoy. I may look for an audiobook too, now that you mention it- Have a re-read after all this time. 😊
@@bonnieharris4538There was a t.v. movie of the Borrowers in the early 70s, with actor, Eddie Albert. I remember watching it when I was a kid.
I would love to see you do videos reading old books. You have such a gift for it! ❤
You do not clutter! You are just Maximal Miniaturists!!
4:18 look at that cute little tongue. 🥰
Sunny would have had me hooked in with his soothing purr, even if you hadn't made me blissfully enthralled with the Borrowers theme. That was one of my favorite storybook series as a child, because what child is not a scavenger/forager/Borrower at heart? Or, what mudlarker, for that matter? You have both nailed the tastes and characters of Arietty and Homily, perfectly. I'm even jealous of your artfully lithographed sardine tin. We don't see such exotic tins on this side of the pond, alas. I can hardly wait to see the kitchen and parlor, and Pod's ingenious tools of trade! Brava, ladies! Well done!
Loved the books, and I remember saying "The borrowers took it" when something was displaced. I've been looking for an old wooden clock to do this, and I might just do my own borrower's house.
Oh, I hope you will!@@Hippiechick11
@@pbonniejean as soon as I can find a clock! I loved the Borrowers books. I think my Mom read them at some point too, but not sure when. It was a long time ago. 😀
@@Hippiechick11 I first read them in school, the first one. I later bought them for my daughters bedtime stories, and then my grandkids. They're now being read to my great grands! I'm 73 years young.
@@pbonniejean that is wonderful!
Oh wow! I haven’t heard about the Borrowers since I was a kid. Growing up in California, I loved when we had the Book-Mobile come to my school and picking books I wanted to read and watching the 1970s t.v. movie, The Borrowers. I might look for that book to give to my nieces to read. 😁
Remember as a child watching this movie it was so delightful.
I love the way you are kind and let Sunny cat “help”! He is so cute with his tongue hanging to the right! 😆
You are both so creative. I love the Borrowers clock, what a great idea! Fleur you have created a wonderful life for and relationship with your kiddos. God bless
Oh, how wonderful! I have just shared The Borrowers with my 7 year old grandson. He is an absolute believer in their existence, along with the bwbach who lives in the old part of our ancient house and plays tricks on us.
I will replay this video for him after school on Monday and know Sonny's pure will be a bonus for him as Binkie, his own kitten, kept us company as we read.
How interesting and fun!
I’m sure I have some Borrowers in my home, so many things go missing! Your little clock rooms are precious! Please don’t take any notice of the criticism, 99% of us love the cluttered rooms!! 💕
I do live the inventiveness of the Borrowers, repurposing and reusing lost or “borrowed” things. I loved how in the Studio Ghibli film they used a flowerpot as a brick oven, and a dragonfly wing as a quill pen! So cool to see how y’all interpret what a Borrower house would look like. 😄❤️I definitely think some of your Mudlarking finds would make a fantastic kitchen. Seashell dishes and bottle cap pie tins? Can’t wait to see what y’all make!
This may be your Masterpiece!
Thank you for your purrs Sunny!!!
Fleur had the best reading voice - soothing and captivating
Cat purring.....lovely touch...... the cup looks like a gozunda in the bedroom..... do you remember the little wall shelves we used to have with random treasures called 'joy boxes' in the 1950'1960's ? That's what this reminds me of...
I loved watching you transform the clock case. Your creativity is amazing and inspiring. I found my borrowers book and intend to read it! Thank you and hope to help raise your numbers!
Love love your work! The Borrowers was one of my most favourite books when I was a child. I am now nearly 72! Your channel takes me right back to an innocent time in my life, when imagination was all! Thanks so much 💐
I’m searching frantically for a perfect Borrowers home. Scouring antique centres/shops etc but meanwhile am gathering adorable things so that I’m ready to play. It’s half the fun anticipating but also frustrating. It’s so tempting to actually ‘borrow’ from my dollhouses. Anyway can’t wait for next instalment you lovely people who make watching one of the most relaxing therapeutic activities and not just for children but for oldies like myself. Love to you both and a kiss for Sunny? Sonny cat who loves to be in on the act especially if there is an interesting whiff.
I just love all your little finds. Reminds me when I was little and stayed with my Nana. She had all of these types of things. I just love how you put it all together.
Thank you so much :)
I enjoy all the dolls houses you make, but the ones you decorate with "found" stuff or mudlark finds are by far my favourite!! The Borrowers are the ideal setting I guess. Love it!🥰🇳🇱
I love this project!!!! I read The Borrower's years ago as a child and was enamored of it right off. As a child in a poor family myself, I made accessories for my Barbie dolls out of found items too. Many Kleenex boxes were made into Barbie beds!! By the way, the Minnesota rug was a sweet surprise!! I live in Austin, Minnesota!! It is the birthplace if Spam!!! I will have to re-read The Borrowers again now!!❤🥰🥰🥰
I forgot to add- it came out PERFECT- just I'd imagine a borrower's home to look! The sardine can bed from Morocco was my favorite, and I love seeing the vintage sewing notions put to use that way.
The borrowers were my favourite to play as a child. I spent hours building little homes for them out of anything I could find. I never stopped looking for things that might be useful to them😂❤
Her room turned out exactly the way mine did as a child. This brings me back to my most beloved and peaceful memories ❤
Amazing idea. I love the Borrowers.
How completely charming! I loved those books when I was a girl, but haven’t read them for probably 50 years. Time to pull them out again!
I was so surprised to see “Minnesota” on something related to cigarettes. They must have had all of the states (“collect them all!”), because geographically, Minnesota is about as far north from cigarette production as one can get. 🙂
So so sweet. That is my favorite story book of all times. Thanknyou
You guys have the best 'junk' - ephemera and bits! And there's no such thing as 'over cluttering' a dollshouse. It's like 'left over cake'... it just doesn't happen.
So very wonderful! Thank you
This. Is. Mine!!
The borrowers? My very first step into faeries and small, and (as a verrrrrrry young girl) leaving tiny things out HOPING that the little's and the borrowers and the fairies would like. Along with that entire world. Ralph mouse and the little people...
My heart has ALWAYS been there for them.
And still is, with no shame and no excuses.
It is what it is.
I’m 76 now and have been reading ‘The Borrowers’ books since they were first written. I live in Belfast but I used to live in Devon, near to where Mary Norton lived. I will still see some little ‘thing’ and think to myself “that would be ideal for Pod to carry home for Homily and Arriety”. Don’t forget that this family got their name from the Grandfather clock, they didn’t actually live in it but their entrance was through the worn down tile where the clock stood. I loved all of the books and still do, if I’m feeling unwell or worried about something, a few pages from Borrowers Afield will take me to that happy place where only Borrowers aficionados know about. I enjoyed your work on the clock house and didn’t see one thing that I thought was out of place for a Borrower. Lovely, thankyou. Do you have an address that I could post something to you? I’ve got a few ‘tiny’ things that I would love you to have before I throw off this mortal coil. Precious things that deserve a precious new home where they will be loved……. (And maybe found by Clock relatives or Wainscots…… who knows).
YeahMan!!! The Borrowers were also a childhood favorite of mine - over 60 years ago!!! I was thoroughly charmed then, and this video brought back those same feelings!!! Too cluttered? There is no such thing in miniature world!!!!! I think the purring enhances your zen-like process. Thanks for a very pleasant slice of time! ☮️❤️
One of my absolute favourite childhood books, loved my children, it's appeal is never-ending!
Your Borrowers clock home is enchanting and so reminiscent of the books.
Watching your videos is like stepping into a magical world, I can't thank you enough! x
I loved the Borrowers books! I can't tell you how many hours of my life have been spent imagining borrowers living in my house.
Oh what a joy to see and hear Sonny again! I've missed him ever so much! I absolutely, positively love this project! It is wonderful!!!!❤
god i live for Borrowers content in the miniature community! this is such a beautiful build!
I'm looking for a grandmother clock tomorrow! Looked like so much fun!
Also I can't imagine anyone being so below stairs as to criticize you ladies.
I always prefered burrower miniatures to toy miniatures as they didn't just have to look - but be functional 😊 An added challenge that I delighted in 🥰
Love watching you play with all your special treasures l love all the minis
Love The Borrowers stories and I really appreciate how you use logic in the decorating. I made a small mouse house in the style of The Borrowers for my aunt. Not nearly as cute as yours! Pill boxes make wonderful storage, and I made a fireplace out of an old spice tin cut open and rolled up on one side with a metal cigar tube as a chimney. Im planning another mouse house for myself built into a 1920s cabinet radio. Just love this and all your videos!
So sweet and clever.
Don't forget to add a thimble with stuffing and a pretty cover for a seat. Love your creativity.
gasp! I have been wanting to do this same project with a broken grandfather clock that came withy house. I seriously teared up a bit hearing you read the passage. 🥰🥰🥰🥰
L O V E this project idea! At 70, I had never heard of this story by Mary Norton! I am now aiming to get myself the series! Thank you for the introduction! 🧵Fleur and Kate, with your fantastic imaginations, I cannot wait to see what you come up with! ❤❤
Me neither bethbranson! Now I must go find the books. I've love miniatures all my life, and at 66 I just started decorating a giant dollhouse I purchased years ago. I'm having such a great time❤
I love that I found this channel!
So lovely to hear the precious purrs too. I miss my cats so much that just hearing the purrs and seeing Pussy's sweet little tongue sticking out and nosing into everything reminds me of their love.
I loved this. I have a copy of the Borrowers I purchased about 6 years ago. I am 68.
Love, love, love all of it. The Borrowers were my favorite too.
OMG, my mom and I have always talked about doing a Borrowers' kind of dollhouse or room, or something. This is a great idea and I will take inspiration from it and make my own at some point.
A cork board above her desk with pins and drawings etc on it. Beads for the feet of her bed to raise it. A poster on the blue wall of a foreign country. The pram near the lady on the left to look like she is pushing it. It really is magical what you two ladies create.x
Wonderful! So entertaining. It is great to see Sunny Cat ❤️🩷💜🧡🤎💛💙
I absolutely loved this stream! I am really partial to all things whimsical. My Christmas tree is all fairies, gnomes elves, birds, little woodland creatures and many old chandelier crystals. I can hardly wait to see what you do with the rest of the clock. Thank you for all of your amazing videos, my friend and I love watching both channels!
Nothing I have ever watched on T.V. or on the Internet has provoked such a calming, child-like intrest in my soul as this video. I've newly subscribed, and I just wanted to let you know that this is the best ever
So much fun. Lovely.
Never heard of the book, but I love British literature. You have such talent and wonderful taste, just love your miniatures. I have a vintage wind up(30day )clock, it is one of my treasures .💕
I,too, loved The Borrower books. Another similar book I loved is Twig, about a tiny girl who lived outside in the yard. Sonny's purring was a perfect (purrfect) accompaniment to your video.
That turned out amazing, I love it all and can’t wait to see it all finished, well done ladies well done 👏👏👏👏🙏❤️
I can’t even express how lovely it was watching this. It made me feel cozy and Christmasy. Thanks.
Just magical! I loved The Borrowers books when I was young! There's something very soothing about both your channels, I think its your voices and the choice of gentle background music. Can't wait to see the clock house finished! ❤️🌻
I would not call it over cluttered at all! My dollhouses are stuffed full...that gives them so much character, charm, story, motion. Keep doing what you are doing! Also, I cannot express enough how much I enjoy that you are a mother and daughter team. My mom has passed on and she and I always enjoyed any crafty thing we did together. This makes me miss her and remember her so fondly. May you both be blessed in all you do.
I could listen to you read all day! Please consider doing bedtime stories on your channel. I'd love to hear you read The Borrowers 🥰
I can tell already that this borrows clock miniature is going to be my favorite of your miniatures.
I also love the cuttered look, I believe its like surrounding yourself with happy memories,that your eye falls across occasionally and reminds you of a pleasant time in your past.
Fantastic just so imaginative loved reading the borrowers
I love this project so much! It’s my favorite thing ever!
The yellow lamp base looks like part of a tube of lip balm. Thanks for sharing your brilliance!
AMAZING Love love love !!!
Loved The Borrowers ! I am 60 year and still love to read their adventures!
Indeed how wonderful!! I love the fact that’s a mother and a daughter working together what’s very rare to see nowadays…
And I love you magic, fantasy, wonder… Bravo!!! Keep doing this lovely work!!❤❤
I wish my mom and i had any kind of hobby in common. We try, but we are so different…im a bit jealous of them, in a tender way.
Stories I also loved were "The Wombles" they also built their burrows out of anything they found while they were out cleaning the recycling from the common. I loved building their homes too!🥰
I totally concur, they would make a great future project.
Merry Christmas to you both! This is delightful. Can’t wait to see the rest. The purring kitty was icing on the cake.
I just finished making a miniature based on the Borrowers, but I haven't edited and posted it yet. Promise I'm not copying! Mine isn't in the clock though, it's a roombox meant to be under the floor.
A you tube video?
@Cate7451 yes. I haven't been able to edit it because I am in the middle of moving.
@TaraFinlay have you posted it yet? I shall give it a watch and support you xx
@@bonnieharris4538 I have! Thanks! th-cam.com/video/Tf39lqqv42w/w-d-xo.htmlsi=06v9dhEBscU1ddsx
@Cate7451 oh yes, sorry! I didn't see this. th-cam.com/video/Tf39lqqv42w/w-d-xo.htmlsi=06v9dhEBscU1ddsx
I saw a scene in a wall clock once. People enter the door of a clockmakers shop in the street - and it turns out to be a secret entrance to a public transport tunnel which is currently doubling as an air raid shelter...
Lovely to see Sunny Cat again.
Such a corker.
This is so lovely. I’m 76 now and live in Belfast with my family, I did live in Devon when I was 9-12 yrs and near to where Mary Norton lived. I have loved the Borrowers and still have my set of books. Still, to this day, I can be heard saying, “this wd do for Spiller,Pod etc”. Funny enough, of all the beloved books I read to my children and grandchildren, none of them ever got ‘into’ my precious family. Another book that you may have read is The Indian in the Cupboard, if not please hunt it down. You will adore this story in miniature but which comes alive. Things that you cd maybe look for are a half scissor for Pod, fine string with knots tied in it for grappling ropes and a ground down fish hook for the end of the rope. Don’t forget, they borrowed everything before the Boy gave them the Doll’s house furniture but then they had to live from scratch when they went to live ‘Afield’. Precious and beautiful memories of my childhood.
Love all you're videos you make but today this one is my favourite and today Sunday I'm watching the Borrowers film thanku so much can't wait to see this grandmother's clock when finished and when she's finished andif you have lost or mis placed anything I wonder where it may be 😊