Gift: Poem

I made this as a poem within a creature.  I've always liked making strange boxes with messages inside.  In most cases, like in this one, the message is written on a long piece of paper and connects to the lid so that the viewer unrolls it as he/she opens the box.

Gift: The Palace

Last year for Valentine's Day I gave my true love a poem made into a palace.  Each room of the palace has a part of the poem written inside and an illuminated scene.  There are 12 tiny scenes and 1 large on in the middle.  It is very hard to get good photos of the rooms because they are so tiny and the lense of my camera is way bigger than the windows.  The palace is made almost entirely out of paper.  It is based loosely on the shape of the Taj Mahal in India.  I even watched the documentary series, "India" while making it.  We still haven't found a place to put it.