Starting to come together

Almost the end of the month and I have not posted. I am starting to get my Day of the Dead display ready for the show but still lots to do as you can see. Still lots to do though. I have had lots of days off from work due to spring break so have no excuses to not have time to work on it. So next month I will have the finished photo to show you. Thanks for popping in to see me and leave a comment so I know you were here.

J

Miniature tile projects

Wow December 2nd already!! I have been busy with the making of several gifts again the past month. Today I gave away a couple gifts away so I can post my projects. The table is one of the Dollar store tables that I will be using for my Day of the Dead display. I may do some more grouting on it yet. I am very pleased with the tiled mirror and picture that I made for a friend's dollhouse that she just started to work on. It is to be spanish/southwest themed Bed and Breakfast house. She was very happy with them both! Now I need to make one of the mirrors for myself.

My felting for Christmas gifts is almost done too so will post some photos after Christmas of them. I need to get started on Christmas cards too. Always something happening in my crafting life. I do not have too many days of boredom.

Happy December and I will check in soon .

Judy

Miniature Hat challenge

On one of my yahoo groups there is a challenge to make a hat in any scale. Since I am making a southwest (sorta) theme display I thought I would try my hand at a felt sombrero. I will try another one soon as I made some big mistakes on this one, but ........ Thought you may like to see the photos anyway. I do like this one and may add some more beads to the brim yet.

Thanks for looking!

J

Mini show challenge

Dale
Ruell and Sandie

Val

Mine
Last fall I challenged my miniature club to making up Poinsettia kits that I had bought from Peaches (Monica). The challenge was to have them ready for the Kelowna clubs show and sale the end of April. Enjoy and I will try to get names on them too. Sometimes I have trouble with blog and pictures getting to the spot I want. My display is far from being finished but I displayed it anyways. You can see I have been busy making cacti too. I really like the way my poinsettia bush turned out. Thanks for looking!

J

Miniature poinsettia bush

March is almost over so time for me to post again.

I have been busy this month working on a miniature poinsettia bush. I bought several kits from Monica (Peaches) and challenged my little mini club I belong to to make up a poinsettia plant and display it in the Kelowna club's show and sale in April.

Anyways I had five kits left and I remember seeing a poinsettia bush in my travels and thought that is what I will make for my southwest style dollhouse I am working (?) on. The bush will be about five inches tall and three inches across . As you can see in the picture I still have some more leaves to add and I think about five more "stems" to add to the bush yet. I then have the tiles (in the second photo) to add to the planter and I think I will add some cacti to the planter as well.

Now back to Monica's flower kits she has some very lovely ones and you can find them here at Danielle's site here.

http://www.dpminiatures.com/catalog/store.php?pg1-cid115.html

They go together very well and my only advice from this project is to take your time and not try to glue alot of petals at one time. Other than that great kit and I will be buying more in the future.

Thanks for visiting my little blog and check out some of my favourite blogs on the side to see where I go to visit for inspiration in my hobbies.

Judy

Dollhouse MInis

So today I was bored and decided this is the day that I start on my mini display for the April Show and Sale in Westside. I have been collecting items for years for a South West House and though I have not found the perfect house yet I am going to at least put the treasures out so I can enjoy them. This is an altered Adams Cottage that I bought at a Peddlar's market a couple of years ago. It is pretty small but will work for this display. I am using paint(actually a warm white not Yellow) and TP to give the outside an adobe look. The inside I will paint and for the floor I will make paper clay tiles. It will turn into a wine tasting room and hope to eventually make a patio and ........ I will post my progress as I go along this personal challenge. I have so many things I would like to do felting and making collages but for the next few weeks I am going to work on this. I am taking a course in Kelowna in Feb doing vintage embellishing and have an envelope swap to do too but I think that is Feb now too? Always projects to do!

Judy