Experimenting

What's the English word for a small candle in an aluminium cup? In Dutch we call it waxine-light or tea-light (as it can be used to keep the tea warm). I had used a bit of the aluminium to cover my ugly and uneven glue-job on the cat-flip on the door of the conservatory, and was waiting for the glue to dry. While waiting, I played a bit with the tools and materials on the table. And this came out:

All I used were a aluminium cup, an embossing pen and a few punches:

The aluminium gets a bit of a silvery look by the embossing pen. Not sure what to do next with it, but I think it looks decorative.

This is the finished cupboard, by the way. I thought I would glue it on the wall, but now I know how difficult to put something in it (and I want to be able to change that according to my liking or the season), I think it would be better if I could still get it off the wall if I want to. Anyway, this week I have great difficulty to get things straight (for example see the hooks...), so I leave that for now. I did finish the embroidery, now it needs to get framed.

Next time more progress on the door.

Bye for now,

Marit

Welcome

Five new followers to welcome! But only four new pictures and no new 'no picture' on the my followers-list? I went though the other pictures of my list, and I think the 'missing' picture must be Ana Morgado. The other four are Merry Jingle, Cia, Janne and Miniaturista.

A warm welcome to you all!

Marit

Update conservatory

As promised: an update on my conservatory. This is how it looks now:

I cannot work on one thing alone: my mind is already busy with the next thing, and I can't help starting on that too. So I did a few other things, while busy on the door and not having finished my embroidery yet. 

The bricks outside were high gloss red, very ugly, so I painted them in a blended mat grey. I redid the joints, and afterwards painted them with watercolour, as they were too white. Then I added some moss. Still need to add some moss to the rest of the conservatory as well, looks great. This is the result:

I had bought some ornaments for the windows at Bindels Ornaments. They sell all kinds of metal ornamental pieces for the use in dollshouses. Of course the ornaments were 'golden', so they needed to be painted white and then made old, rusty and dirty.

I think the result is more beautiful then shows on the pictures!

Then of course, I still busy with the door to the none-existing house. It takes lots and lots of layers of white paint to cover the dark grey beneath! I also made a small cupboard, which I gave the same dark grey treatment, before painting it white, again and again and again...

Now it needs to dry thoroughly before I can work on making the old look.

It looks here like spring is finally coming, but they say it's going to snow again this weekend... I'll see if it will be dollshouse or garden this weekend!

Bye for now,

Marit

New followers

In my absence an amazing amount of new followers arrived:
Lirael
FabShabbyRoses (I think the link must be right, but why doesn't your picture show up in my list of followers?)
Sylvia
Jonna Rudoo
Mincka
Cerchiofatato
Casita Mini
Ingrid
Michelle's mad world
Jaime
Coby
Unicornio
Lara
Christel Jensen
Mini Annalee
Victoria
Hannajaleijona
Amica (please let me know if you have a blog, can't find it)

I hope you all will like it here!


Marit

Mini sampler

You haven't heard from me in a while, because I was busy, have some things on my mind and last week we had a small holiday. I will post some holidayphoto's later, and will catch up with you as well. For now I just want to show you that I'm still busy with my conservatory. I want to make a sampler for on the wall. I have cross-stitched a lot in my life, but never in mini. I think it's very frustrating, too much threads on a too small area, so I had to give up. Not my thing. For those who can, I admire you even more.
But no sampler? No. So I'm cross-stitching, not as small as I would prefer, but as small as I think I can handle.

I think the colours will match the conservatory perfectly.

As for the door: I started the first dark layers of paint today. I did think about the idea of a dark stain, I see how it would suit it nicely, but still prefered the painted look. So the painted look it will be. Thank you all for your ideas! So funny how other people can think in directions, which I didn't even think about!

Bye for now,

Marit