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| These are some porcelain fairies that I made some time ago. I am planning on having a "Beach House" giveaway at the end of the summer. I will include a tiny fairy and a fairy -house made of tiny shells. The bellow picture is of some printed fabric that I have made for pillows and cloth napkins. I have made far too many and will include some of them in the giveaway as well. |
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| I am working on my chimney right now. First I cut a piece of foam roughly into the shape of a chimney, and glued it onto the side of the house. I am experimenting with papiermache to form my bricks because it comes in a much larger amount than Paperclay,and coast less. So far it seems to work. I will cover the whole chimney with Papiermache in stages . I am encasing the top of the chimney where it meets the roof line so that the roof will look like it is cut out and not part of the chimney. I made one mistake: I made the first batch too moist and it was hard to mark the bricks, so they are a bit large. The mermaid tile was stuck on with siliconized acrylic caulk which is what I have used for most of my gluing. Siliconized acrylic caulk is a great adhesive it's thick and you can paint over it easily. |
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| I have used the same taupe acrylic paint to paint some of my foundation stones and the roof shingles to tie the house together visually. |
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| I have a love hate relation ship with porcelain. I love the finish that I can get, the colors of china paint, the glaze and the gold. I love the details and the fact that it shrinks a little when it is fired. But it is brittle, not easy to model and is very messy plus the physical discomfort that I have mentioned in the past, but I just adore French and British porcelain figurines and have spent a lot of my past trying to reproduce them. What should I do? An ongoing question. I have been unpacking my miniatures and found these tucked into a little box. the largest one is one inch. |
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| I am experimenting with crochet...I am using Gutermann's 100 cotton and a .5 crochet hook. Also I am testing the Burmilana wool thread, it is the peach and green fiber and it is knit. I am very happy with the results and if anyone is interested please tell me and I will add a post all about it's qualities to my Knitting page. I almost forgot...the bumilana works well in #40 silk gauze with a #10 needle. It is for machine embroidery and comes in many colors. |
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| Annabelle wanted a picture of her puppy to appear on the blog. This is Percy, he was too quick to get a good picture of him |
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| A porcelain garden angel that I sculpted many years ago. I think that I will keep her where she is, in Gwendolyn and Joseph's bed room.
Have a lovely week,
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