Dark Wishes Designs - A Life in Miniature

  Marie loved wandering through the rooms at Chesterfield, the whole place fascinated her from the beautiful drapes, now tightly closed to keep out the sun, to the smooth perfectly polished furniture, especially the little writing desk in the study with notes, maps and letters spilled out over it. The bedrooms were perfection, with four poster beds and richly coloured heavy fabric curtains. Fireplaces were in every room and you could just picture the cosy scenes of nights reading, talking and relaxing in front of the roaring fires. She had lost count of how many hours she had spent both within the hall and in the grounds over the years.   Beyond the formal gardens, which you could see from the drawing room had the drapes not been drawn, stood the lake with huge copper mermaid statue at its centre which, on the hour spouted jets of water high into the air from a golden fish’s mouth. When the sun caught it right you could see a rainbow of colours in the droplets as they pl...

  Gypsy Viola Lee had been a part of Corellis circus for many years. She never seemed to age, her hair was as dark as coal with only the faintest hint of silver running through it. If you asked the remaining Corelli generations no one remembered when she had arrived or where she had come from. But everyone remembered the day she died and what happened subsequently… Viola had an uncanny knack for perfectly accurate fortune telling, those who paid their money and sat across from her in her small tent were brave souls indeed, for not everyone got good news. Such was her reputation that Corellis Circus drew large crowds in every town it visited, with long lines stretching to the circus boundary. Some came as curious observers, too scared to enter the famous tent, some just to watch people as they came out from their reading. Generally, people were either overjoyed or ashen faced and the odd few fainted clean away upon leaving. No one ever divulged the secrets from within ...