by Karen Nyenhuis | Jun 16, 2024 | A Miniature 1910 Painted Lady, Uncategorized
A San Francisco Painted Lady, 1900. My mother purchased the shell for this house and did the exterior and interior trim work herself. The furniture is a mix of purchased items and items she made herself. Most of her house shells came from Ah Miniatures! in...
by Karen Nyenhuis | Jun 12, 2024 | Writing Craft
Two years. That’s when my first set of five books will be ready to consider publishing them. My setting is so unusual it doesn’t have a ready-made audience or specific literary genre category. Four years ago, I embarked on a study of church history in Scandinavia and...
by Karen Nyenhuis | May 23, 2024 | Just Knud Qvigstad, Norse Mythology, Sami History, Tales from Sapmi
This story is hard to make sense of. It has a bit of shape-shifting in it, a phenomenon mentioned in Norse myth. The Sami had a broad understanding of Norse myth in the eighteenth century, as evidenced by the journal of Isaac Olsen, Lutheran missionary to Sapmi in the...
by Karen Nyenhuis | May 20, 2024 | A Miniature 1910 Painted Lady, Uncategorized
The chair and settee are signed by Cindy Malone. The cabinet is by Ruth...
by Karen Nyenhuis | May 19, 2024 | A Miniature Carl Larsson Christmas, Art of Scandinavia
An interpretation in miniature of the Carl Larsson painting, “Daddy’s Room,” circa 1895. The tall cabinet is signed “JJonis...
