Colour advice wanted

Today has been a bad day for my little black cat. I guess he tried to walk on thin ice, because he came back from his daily 5 min walk outside wet from tail to ears. He didn't let me help him dry, but I'm just so happy that he's alright! After he washed himself dry, I spoiled the poor thing by letting him sleep in our bed beneath the blanket. He hasn't left the spot all day!

I've been working on the conservatory again, the floor, the back wall and the door in the wall. The tiles are from Jennifer's Free Printables. I still need to do the joints, but I love the result.

The door will get a leaded window and a shutter for a cat (for me a house without a cat is no home). I want to make a used look by painting it with colour 1 and then with colour 2, and then sand the used parts, so colour 1 will show. But which colours? First I thought colour1 to be white, and colour 2 to be bluegreen like the wall, or a lighter shade. Then I thought colour 1 to be dark grey (which the red part of the outside will become as well) and colour 2 to be white. The light blue-ish grey of the tiles is also a good colour 1 or 2. Or... what do you think, what would you do?

Marit

Welcome

Since Christmas I got an amazing amount of new followers! So a warm welcome to Josje, Eva, Rose, Ascension, Eli & Karina, Kim, Susanne, Minna, Evelien, Karin, DE, Mermaid Treasures, Anneke, Lori and Lisette.

Eli & Karina: I can't find a blog of you, if you have, please let me know!

I hope you all keep liking my blog!

Marit   

Keyring

There are very rare moments in which everything I try, succeeds. And there are days, weeks (even years), in which everything I try, just doesn't work out the way I want to. Maybe it's to spare luck for those moments in which I really need it, in which I would otherwise be run over by a bus or something like that, I don't know. So maybe I am really, really lucky without knowing it. I'm sure that is the case ;) !

Anyway, last week was one of those weeks in which nothing seem to succeed. So I did work on the conservatory, but I was lucky enough to be able to undo my work without damage, so no photo's of that.

I did finish one of my keyrings:

And the back:

In the meanwhile I got a whole lot of new followers. I will welcome you when I have more time to write.

Bye for now,
Marit

Weather-vane

Recently I decided to get my conservatory out of storage to make a little garden-project of it, instead of adding it to my dream house (which I will build one day, if ever). The first miniature I made for my new project is this weather-vane:

It's not only decorative, it also works, of course. Here some pictures of the making process:

The ornaments are from Tiny Turnings, I sawed the arrow and the bird.
So far, all I made has been made pretty, well painted, clean, just the way you would buy it in a shop. In real life I do not like the old look given to new furniture by sanding the corners, adding uneveness and sometimes even a dirty glaze. In my opinion new needs to look new, and things with history may show history, but not too much. Your work, and also the book of Lea Frisoni, made me see that in a dollshouse a used look adds charm, makes a dollshouse more realistic. So I did the unnatural thing: after finishing my beautiful weather-vane, I made it ugly and dirty. I did the same to the conservatory, and then added the weather-vane. I'm quite happy with the result, but also a bit sad about the loss of beauty... Here's the result:

I hope to show you more of the garden-project soon.

Bye for now,

Marit

Merry Christmas everyone!

I want to make a Christmas-lantern, but this year I had no time for it. But I made a little scene to wish you all a very merry Christmas (well, I hope it was, as Christmas is almost over now) and a very happy and healthy 2010!

Almost invisible on the photo is the black cat in Christmas spirit (my real cat has other plans with Christmas decorations...).

The little bear was a present of Jody. It's really beautiful. I think I'll make a 'Merry Christmas'-sign with it for my lantern (next year?).

To my surprise I saw that there are six more of you out there following me! I think I need to thank Debbie for mentioning me on her blog! Welcome Lize, Vicky, Dales-Dreams, Susan (Minicrochetmad), Muriel (Le coffre d'Emilie) and Angeles. I don't seem to be able to find a blog of you, Dales_Dreams. If you have one, please let me know. I like to see who you are and what you do!

Bye for now,

Marit

PS: Haven't seen 'my' kingfisher since a week... The freezing is over since yesterday, but it will take time before all the ice has gone and he will be able to eat properly.