Half assed wonders and unfinished dreams: Things I am randomly doing

That post title was for Marisa I told you it would make a great one :P

And the title does make sense with all the things my befuddled mind tries to process. <If this wording doesn't make sense let me show you this graph of how my mind works for mini ideas> ..ehem..

 

So you see from the above graph..that *HEHEHE HARHARHAR*

 

 

Any ways....

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I have decided to enter the Undersized Urbanite contest and the HBS Contest and work on them AT THE SAME TIME!!!!

 

I thought to enter undersized urbanite with a simple theme house, it wont place as anything but I am going to build it any ways and I thought just joining this newish contest might help bring it to light for the future contestants as well, also why don't you join?

 

The Undersized Urbanite can be found at the top tab of my page here I will be working on it over the next couple of months in random spurts.

 

As for the HBS Miniatures.com contest, I just ordered the house. My long distance sister Jenny Bee and I, will be working on these houses together gain just like the Greenleaf contest. Jen has a awesome idea ;)

 

My idea is big also, I will be doing some massive construction on this one..good thing we have almost a year for the build ;)

 

 

Tomorrow I will show you the wonders that the darling Jennifer of Plushpussycat sent me and see if anyone else wants to do a swap for valentines ;)

 

Ps..Don't copy my graph, you will go insane..

 

SQUIRREL!!!....

Janes, 1:48, 1:6, 1:24 post: aka Jane Scatterbrain, also a question for you?

This post is really just about a question I have for all of you mini folks around the world in each your individual countries..for a future spring..thing *wink*

But I thought I would also fill it with random pictures of things, since that is how the cookies bounce around in my head ;)

Ok, so my question to you folks in other countries outside the states is: Do you have access to a product called foam board? It is the paper covered 3/16th inch thickness or 5mm board you can carve for small roomboxes projects etc?  Normally used in offices or art shops.

And if you can get it is it inexpensive where you live? A dollar/currency for a large sheet? Please let me know in comments or google etc if this is a product you can get. Thanks for your assistance.
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Now on to the ramblings of scale:

1:6  We got my daughter the Barbie Dreamhouse for Christmas, its a massive thing 3 ft tall and 6 rooms, they came fully furnished so it is a pretty nice buy. It can be used for monster high and Barbie

1:24 The Elven Cottage sits on my work desk, I got impatient and painted the front a bit. I may work on it later...*sigh*

1:48 I took out some of the 1/4 scale furniture I got and played around with painting it, I am eager to start this smaller scale...eager..butterflies..elevator music in my head....

It is quite cute isn't it? little pots on it...maybe some tiny, tiny food..

..where was I ? 

Maybe I should tie my balloon head down to one scale?

..nah..

The fabulous Fabiola: Regali da Italia

I hope the translation is correct! ;)

Hello mini folk of the globe! I hope wherever you are that you are not frozen, like we have been here in the US. Now when I say frozen I mean yesterday in NY they had a winter warning advisory stating a -15 below zero wind.

So you figure exposed skin in this weather can get frostbite in 15 minuets...in NY not Antarctica! Keep warm, snuggly, inside and mini crafting!
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I wanted to show you the swap Fabiola and I set up around Christmas. Fabiola is a wonderful lady who always leaves encouraging messages and kindness on our blogs, I am sure most of us know her and for those who are just finding out you are in for a treat!

 

Fabiola sent me a amazing array of beautiful and wonderfully crafted goodies as you can see. These signs for a tea and cake shop are just beautiful and are inspiring me to create another café style shadow box.

 

As you can see this love towel..aww! and wonderful clock would fit in with the scene as well!

Faby also made these fabulous little slippers, a set for him and her.. they are sooo fine and perfect. As I look at my real life ratty slippers *lol*

 

Fabiola has not gotten mine yet but when she does I hope they are as wonderful as these fine gifts I received! Thank you so much Faby! Your friendship and encouragement are always a wonderful gift and these little wonders you sent just add to how fabulous you are!  Big hugs!!

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You all know, I do love to swap! I have been thinking of love lately..its so wonderful even in small doses ;)

 

 

 

My Christmas gifts from the wonderful Wyrna of A Fairy Tale Come True!

Hello Folks I wanted to share some of the wonders I received from Wyrna over the Holiday.

I think we all know the amazing lady that she is and most know of how exquisite of a crafter she is. I was lucky to have received some of her loveliest hand crafted miniatures! You might want to go have a look at her shop....AMAZING!!!

 

Wyrna sent me one of her exquisite tables decorated in this lovely and feminine theme, it is just so perfect in hand...LOVE it. You might be so lucky to win a piece of her furniture in her Givaway!

 

An array of beautiful Christmas ornaments, they are fantastic pieces!

 

She also sent me some of her lovely storage boxes!

 

And of course you have seen these beautiful and tiny Christmas candles, they are perfection!

 

I want to thank you again Wyrna for sending such beautiful and exquisite gifts to me! Your thoughtfulness and friendship means so much!

 

Big hugs!!

 

New Years Project: The Elven House

Good New Year good folk!

How were your celebrations? I wish all the very best for you in this new year, remember it is never too late to start anew all it takes is the courage and work!__________________________________________________________

I wanted to share my new years project with you a little. This project came close to convincing me to see how fast and hard I could throw it at the wall..

I did not calculate the arid climate in my house, as it is winter and dry.. when thinking on the paperclay drying.

So it has ended up with a million cracks. My concept for this house was a very clean smooth looking house.. but after being a big ole baby about it.. and taking a breath...maybe a couple of glasses of wine... I figured I can make this work and just have a cottage look to it and go with the cracking flow ;)

It is a work in progress but I thought I would share some sculpting shots.

The Elven House..er Cottage

This project started out as a thought of turning one of the Half scale houses I purchased from my Greenleaf win into a elven styled house. After using my paper patterns I realized that it would be too much patching work and about 80% would be remade anyways.

So I decided on gator board. While using the Arthur as a size guide.

This uses homemade paper clay.. but the version for this is a bit different. Paper mache' Clay. I will get into it a bit later.

 

I decided on making a dragon scale patterned roof for this, as this look is from a lot of my geek...er RPG games and it fit the slope and style of the roof nicely.

 

A lot more work to be done! I want to encourage you folks to try some toilet paper clay room boxes or roofs for 2014, lets learn together!

 

What are you working on for this new year??

Happy New Year to you and yours!

From my family to yours, we wish you a very happy, healthy and safe New Year!

Holiday Inc: Santas Workshop Complete

Good evening good folks!

This will be my last post till the new year and I will let you know after dragging my feet a bit I have completed Santa's workshop. I will tell you I got pretty lazy about the details at the end so it might be a bit messy in areas and my camera has pretty much seen its last days, but its finished enough to consider the rest next Christmas :P

 

I want to thank all of you great mini friends for the swaps and wonderful gifts you sent over the last year, you will notice your pieces are displayed here with lots of love and gratitude!

 

I hope your Holiday season goes well and you are happy and healthy!

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

Santa here was a last minuet creation, my daughter insisted I make a Santa so I threw him together with scraps of projects ..he has my failed Easter bunny body, the head I started a year ago and some pipe cleaners, pillow remnants etc...he turned out better than I thought!   

 

 

 

I hope you enjoyed this post, if you have questions about things in the shop, feel free to contact me or ask in comments.

 

Happy Holidays and a wonderful New Year to you all!!

Holiday Inc. Toy worktable : Also I may be completely addicted to glitterhouses

Good evening good folk!

I been working on Holiday Inc..I have! but before that...Glitter houses....twinkle in the eye!

I though of doing some little toy houses for the shop area and the build space so I looked up paper craft houses and a few patterns came up...then...then I saw them..glitter houses....

I decided to print off a few of the patterns I found on the web and apply some of the 100 vials of nail gittery stuff in my stash....ohhh sparkle...oh delight.

 

On the larger house I added the flock and glitter I got from the fabulous chick that is Jennifer of Plushpussycat you will notice the houses look plush ;P 

 

The patterns are free to find all over the web for various projects. Just remember to look for the term PAPERCRAFT as well as printable when you folks want to find other printables for instance small 3d style toys and things can be found this way you just would scale them in any picture/ writing/ graphics program of your choice. 

 

EDIT: I have added this printable pdf for those who want to mess around with them>

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7wwtmpTZQnCZVlOYjRRQS02cmc/edit?usp=sharing

 

Ohhh...glittery....sparkles....

 

 

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Sorry got tranced there......

 

Any whoooooo... I did a little bit of work on the toy worktable . This is just balsa wood and acrylic paint I made some simple stools from woodsies.  

As you can see I filled the table and surrounding areas with a lot of the toys and beautiful swap pieces from the last year.

I made this little robot from some leftover foam pieces.  IT'S ALL GOOD STUFF..save them dodads, even when they all look at you crazy for picking up fancy strings and tiny scraps *heheh Harhar har* *crazy look in eye*

More work to be done....maybe...just....a few more.... glitter houses.....stares off into space........

Holiday Inc: The Christmas room renovation.

Hello folks, quick post here just to show you I actually am working on Holiday Inc... instead of just saying I will...like last time...

The picture isn't the best, its snowy and cold and crap here today..

Any who, I decided to redo the walls with a faux plaster/adobe'ish finish.. so sand, paint and cornstarch to make a plastery mix. Then I went over them a few times with a rag and blotted a cream/orcre color.... so basically I redid the redo a few times..because I hated it three times.... all premeditated >=)

The floors have been redone to look more of a worn woodshop floor.

I made a quick bottle brush tree with the Lycopodium I got from Lyssa and added quite a few bits and baubles from you fine folks, to fill in the tree and present area.

This is just filling from the back to front so a lot of work to go. The plan will be to add a long work table and have three elves working at the table with toys in production...

Ok.. here is a shot of work in progress.

Christmas Mini Swaps: I've done it..Holiday Inc: is dusted off

Good day, good evening and goodnight..for me anyways ;)

Now that we are in December I wanted to show a few of the mini swaps I've done the last month. I have sat on my lazy mini butt for long enough! Its time for action and Holiday Inc. is back on the worktable!

My first swap was with a fine lady that actually lives locally to me we are within a hours distance form each other so we got to do this swap in person ;)

Traci over at http://www.tinytraci.blogspot.com/ made me some beautiful Christmas minis for Holiday Inc.

As you can see here she created this amazing Christmas wreath decorated with candies, silver and red ornaments just beautiful!. She taught me how to make the bow on her wreath so I learned a new skill as well!

 

The stocking is another amazingly crafted beauty, its sewn so fine you cannot even see the stitching. It is decorated with pine, perfect little apple, candy cane and of course another fine looking bow!

 

Stop by her blog and say hi, I expect great things from her!

 

Thank you again Traci! I look forward to our next meet hon!

 

I also wanted to show you a few of the Christmas minis that I swapped with Kelly over at the Greenleaf Dollhouses Forum. Kelly was the first place winner of the Spring fling this year and sooooo well deserved! She is such a lovely lady..and absolutely amaaaaaaazing miniaturist!

 

Have a look at some of her houses when you get a chance...she is just awesome..so prepare for awesomeness! Kelly's FB

 

Kelly and I are both dragon lovin gals so of course we swapped a couple dragons but I will show you the Christmas minis for this post.

 

As you can see here we have a awesome gingerbread board with a gingerbread towel and frosting for decorations. She sent me these perfect winter pillows and of course a dragon sneaking into the stocking, peeking in on his treats! 

 

Thanks again Kelly you continue to inspire me!

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I did mention Holiday Inc. Yes..I have ignored the ole girl long enough! She is back on the work table dusted sorted and ready for work. I have gotten so many amazing and wonderful gifts from you fine folks all around the world it is time to start placing them in Santa's workshop.

 

I decided that after learning a few new techniques from the Treetop Creature Shop that I would update the room a bit.. So I have stripped it down and am preparing a new vision.

 

I hope all your Chrismismini dreams come true! See you folks soon ;)