little houses

We have these little houses in the kitchen window and it is almost a morning ritual to light the candles inside these houses when it is still pitch dark. Then slowly the sky is getting lighter and lighter - for us in the real world and for the imagined inhabitants of the pottery houses as well. And then in the evening, when it is time to light candles to invite light and warmth into our house, the same happens in the little houses. It's a kind of parallel world where everything is lovely and alright.