Dollhouse Miniature Flower - Ranunculus in 1:12 Dollhouse Miniature Scale

I probably have been mentioning my sweet friend Jacqueline a lot in my blog these days, but I continue to be inspired and get to learn new things from her. Just the other day, she mentioned the word Ranunculus to me. I asked, "What's that?" And off I went to google.

When I found out what it was, I was extremely excited and happy - because I've been trying to find out the name of this beautiful flower for the longest time...Having seen it in real life, I marveled at the colours, and admire how tightly the petals remain close to each other. I have always thought it was just one of the roses species, but all thanks to my sweet friend, I now know the proper name for this! :) Armed with this new word, I went wild searching for some photos of it.

While researching, I saw one of my favourite blogger and photographer, Polina of Beautyspot talked about this beautiful flower here

If I understood the translated page properly, it did seems that ranunculus is also expensive even in Russia. It can go up to 7 or 8 USD per stalk! I know the flower shop in my neighbourhood doesn't carry this flower since there really is no demand for it. Out of curiosity, I did check with an upscale florist shop in town, and found out that they are selling each stalk of ranunculus for about S$4.50 to S$5.00, and they do require a minimum order of 5 stalks. I am still thinking...and am going to do more research. I'm interested to get a stalk or two, to brighten up my day, to study the petals and admire their beauty...

I was so drawn with the colours in Polina's photo that I tried creating it in 1:12 dollhouse miniature scale.

The characteristics of this flower is that it has dense layers of tissue like petals, which is a new challenge to replicate into dollhouse miniature scale.

I hope this resembles a pink ranunculus...somehow....

My favourite flower now....:)

And this is especially dedicated to Jacqueline and Polina....thank you for inspiring me....