The kit I chose, the Rolife Dreamy Garden House DG163, already comes with a little story of its own. I wanted to keep it going, so I wrote what happens next, the day snow fell on the island for the first time. My build is that moment in miniature. Let me tell you the story…
On an island in the middle of the sea, the sun always shone. Sometimes a storm would pass, big and noisy, but it left just as it had come, and the next day the flowers would open again toward the light. No one there had ever seen snow fall. They didn’t even know it existed.
In the center of the island stood a house with glass walls, and in it lived a gardener who looked after the flowers together with the fairies. They spoke with the plants, and he tended them with his hands. When a traveler arrived sick, he healed them with flowers, and many, before leaving, gave him a gift from the human world to say thank you. The gardener kept each one in boxes, not quite knowing what they were for.
One afternoon he said goodbye to the last traveler of the year. Before leaving, the man placed something small and round in his hands.
“It’s a snow globe,” he said. “Shake it, and you’ll see.”
The gardener didn’t know what snow was, but he shook it out of curiosity. Inside, little white specks rose, swirled slowly, and settled back down. Suddenly a shiver ran down his spine, a cold he had never felt before. He looked up.
Small white flakes were falling from the sky, one after another, very slowly.
The fairies came out from among the flowers, their wings trembling and their eyes wide. One of them reached out and caught a flake, which melted in her palm. They all stood in silence, watching the whole island dress itself in white.
The snow lasted a month. The flowers couldn’t bloom in such cold, so they fell asleep beneath the snow. The gardener saw the fairies shivering and didn’t think twice: he made room for them in the cabinet with the little drawers, with a tiny blanket, and there they slept, warm and cozy, all winter long.
Then he covered the pots with cloth, left the frosted watering can by the door, and at last opened the boxes where he kept the travelers’ gifts. Everything he needed was there: a small stove, an armchair, a blanket woven somewhere far away, a cup with a picture from another world, and books, so many books. He placed them one by one, and the greenhouse stopped being a plant workshop and became a refuge. He lit the flower lamp, and its warm glow could be seen from all over the island through the misted glass.
He sat in the armchair with a cup of tea in his hands and a book open on the table. For the first time, while the snow fell outside, he understood what the travelers’ gifts were for: they were a way to get through the cold without feeling alone.
The month passed, and the snow left as it had come, without a sound. The flowers woke up, the fairies stretched and climbed out of the drawer, and the island regained its colors.
But the following year, when the air began to cool, the gardener already knew what was coming. He took out the blanket, lit the stove, got the drawer ready, and waited by the window. Ever since, the cold season returns every year to the island of flowers, and the gardener welcomes it like an old friend.
very nice concept. Can’t wait to see it
cant wait to see the final customization