Welcome!

Already 94 followers! Seems I'm getting close to my 100th-follower-giveaway!

A warm welcome to:
Nati
Flora
Miniaturemaid
Anthoula
Mary Williams
Saskia
Monique
Genevieve
Maria Narbon
Annina
Jody
Alafosca
Carolm
Heli
Bözse
Meli Abellan
Puppenstubennostalgie
Marleen
Dora
Nina

I hope you all will like my blog!

Marit

PS: For more photo's of the little birds, see my other blog: White Cat Cottage.

Bird cage

A while ago Norma of Make Mine Mini showed a birdcage in one of her posts (click here to see the post). In real life I always feel a bit sorry for birds in a cage. A symbol of freedom caged... No, a bird should be able to spread their wings and fly! I wish I could!
But birds as well as birdcages can be so beautiful! And when I saw the one Norma showed, I thought of soldering one. A miniature bird wouldn't mind to be caged, would he?

The bird is made of Fimo with feathers of a peacock glued on it (hooray to my childhood collections!). A peacock feather excists of many small, perfect miniature feathers. Each little feather is glued separately onto the body. The eyes are little bolls of tin from the soldering.

Beneath the bird is a tray with a piece of paper to collect the birdshit and loose feathers:

And this is how it started:

The cage has gotten an eyelet to hang from. I had some ideas for a soldered post to hang it on, but my creativity has less limits than my soldering-qualities. But when I showed my husband my plans, he liked the idea and already started on it :). So to be continued...

Marit

Wood lathe

My husband was so kind to explain the wood lathe of the Unimat to me, and having so much fun in the proces, that he made me all kinds of small cups and things...

The lid fits perfectly!

The bowl is made of a kind of large nut. It's a bit transparant, so it could be used to put a light in as well.

Did I make any of this? Yes, the smallest ones of course! Always trying to get it as small as possible ;). Thinking of making a game of chess... The difficult thing about that is to make each equal piece look the same. Need some more practice to be able to do that, I think.

Have a nice weekend,

Marit

Welcome

Again many new followers:

Hissunkissun

Marlies

Karin Corbin

Aru

Move with me

Annie - Obsidian Hall

Tallulah Belle

Pandora Box (can't find your blog, please let me know if you have one)

Anama

Janice

Sonya

The old maid

Roelie

Jean

Karin

A warm welcome to you all, hope you will like my blog!

Marit

Slow progress

I made this little heart the way I descibed in the post before this one. I used a rubber mat to make the heart extra hollow. I made the edges flat again by using the embossing pen on the other side of the heart. I made two hearts and glued them together with the knot of the thread on the inside. It now hangs on the shelf.

The shelf hangs by the use of magnetic tape and a metal sheet. The magnetic tape is not very strong. It's designed for the use on paper, so one can put up photo's or children's drawings on the fridge or on a wall which has been painted with iron-paint. My husband is getting me stronger, industrial magnetic tape, but this will do for now.

I also put up the embroidery the same way. I'm not totally happy with the way it's framed. I wanted to use a passe-partout, but I didn't get it straight.

Yes, the door hangs too, including cat-flip. Blacky still figures out if he will like this or not... My real cat only uses it when he's not able to convince one of us to open the door for him, he has such a hard life! ;)

I had much trouble getting the hinges of the door right. This is the third type of hinge I tried, and it finally worked.
I used coloured plastic in the window of the door. I want to put a light behind the door, like if the lights are on in the non-existing house. The colours are not very visible on the picture, but are two types of blue.

This is all for now. It goes much slower than I would wish to, but my life is not a Harry Potter movie, so I can only use my time once, and not much on dollshouses lately.

Happy Easter!

Marit