Gingerbread house. According to certain researchers, the first gingerbread houses were the result of the well-known Grimm‘s fairy tale “Hansel and Gretel“. As many czech people will tell you; the Grimm brothers ‘borrowed’ many of their famous fairytales from old czech fairytales. In this case it was the ‘Pohádka o perníkové chaloupce‘, fairytale of the gingerbread house. […]
Cottage on chicken legs. One of the returning fairytale movies around christmas in the Czech republic is Mrazík (Jack Frost). Made in the sovjet union in 1964, based on a russian fairy tale. While Ivan searches for Nastya, he comes across Baba Yaga, She lives in an enchanted forrest, in a house on chicken legs. While […]
The Watermill Princess In 1994 the famous czech film director Zdeněk Troška made the fairytale movie ‘Princezna ze mlejna‘. In 2000 he made a follow up with ‘Princezna ze mlejna 2’. Both of the movies where made in the South Bohemian district with the many forrests ad lakes. As for the building, the watermill, they […]
Most, if not all, miniature parks in europe have miniature buildings en landmarks that exist in full real life size. Fairy gardens and garden railways mostly have a gothic style fantasy buildings. We would like to have only non-existing fantasy buildings, but in 1:25 scale, so they all look to belong in this fantasy world. […]
As the tabletop wargaming crafters on youtube will tell you; start with carton. Why not, it’s cheap or free and easy to use. But not if you want to put it outside. Yes, we tried. With a lot of special coating for boats, we had some builds outside in the summer. Under some roofing that […]
To have an idea in your head and realizing that in real life can be fustrating. Internet to the rescue! The amount of inspirational creative websites and educational films on youtube is endless. Of course, there is no website of youtube film that will show you how to build a miniature park. But there is […]
From 2007 we have been building and maintaining a small leasure park for the whole family, with some trails, puzzels, games and more, locally known as Houbový park (the Mushroom park). (In 2020 we changed the name to Fantazium, as people kept asking for real mushrooms…) In 2010 we added some houses and gnomes, at […]
Yes, again, hello. A few years ago, in 2005 I did some blogging about life in CZ on a, now extinct, dutch “Hive” platform. When I found out the information there was used against me in my personal life it was easy to quit on the spot. Why I feel the need to start again? […]
