Advent calendar 2020 - day 7 & 8 of Santa's workroom

Things are a bit busy around here at the moment. Not too busy for crafting, but for taking photographs and writting blogs I need some extra time.

I find making good photos hard at best, and all the more when I can wait for the right moment (light etc). And since English obviously (:P) isn't my native language I have to think about what I write a bit more.

Anyway, I'm still doing the challenges in random order, so here's my take on (official) day 12; making a paper bin and a desk pad. The tutorial used straw braid which I didn't have. Instead I made the paper bin out of decorative Christmas paper and lace. For the desk pad I'd found some fancy ribbon and I combined that with the same lace.

I'm not sure I like the desk pad, but maybe it'll look different on a desk. It also feels like it isn't the right scale? I just don't like such desk pads, I guess. It seems impractical; how could you even write a note on that lace? 😉 

Maybe I'll try to make another one later if I've got enough time. I'm also thinking doing a frame with that reindeer ribbon on the wall would be nice.

When the Balsa wood arrived yesterday I immediatelygot my cutting mat, knife, wood glue from the cupboard ^^

The furniture for the work room in the Advent calendar has an industrial look. I was in doubt about at first, but decided to go with the flow :) I will make little changes in the design though.

I've already started on the shelf unit ^^

The little helper is not finished yet; at the moment he looks like Bill Bailey :')

Advent calendar 2020 - day 5 & 6 of Santa's workroom

Well, it's actually day 6 :) It was getting too late yesterday, but I did multiple things, so there will be two new items today ^^

I've worked on the face of Santa's little helper which I was a bit terrified of doing since I've never done that before :) I painted the place for his hair and beard white just in case you'll get to see though the hairs (a)

I 'd flipped though the booklet to see what else I could do and I decided on making the tree skirt.
That's officially day 12 of the Advent calendar but *wispers* still no Balsa wood :')
Instead of felt I choose some cotton Christmas fabric. I didn't have the double sided tape, so I figured out another way to make the skirt.
First, I adapted the pattern because I didn't want a flat skirt, so therefore my wedges are a bit smaller then the original. Then I glued them on the fabric with a tiny bit of Tacky glue.

I left a small hem around the wedges ...

... and hand sewed the sides together. Used my nails to flattend the fabric and then glued the inner and outer hems onto the paper. The side edge on the eighth one got glued to number one after it's wrapped around the tree trunk.

I like how neat the end result looks. 
Making a Christmas tree is for day 11. I had this tree already. The bits of white ('snow') have been painted green and I replaced the wooden base by a cone shaped one from Fimo.

And here's the result ;) 

Advent calendar 2020 - day 4 of Santa's workroom

Today I've made the sweater and the hat. The hands were cut from some previous made arms and glued to the little helper's arms ;)
Now he only needs a face paint, hair and beard. Just like Santa, which I've been putting off, so hopefully I can do them both this weekend :')

The sweater is actually a more
greenish teal which looks nice
with the burgundy hat (a)

Obviously Santa won't sit like
this in his workroom but I wanted
to show the difference in size ^^

Advent calendar 2020 - day 3 of Santa's workroom

While waiting for the wood to arrive, I'll start working on Santa's little helper.
There are three days in the Advent calendar working on that, so hopefully I can start with the furniture on Monday :')

Instead of Noelle - Thea's little helper with the blond braids - I want to try and make even smaller helpers. At least one for the work room, and maybe later some more for the toy shop. I don't know who to give credit for but I was inspired by this picture. 

I made the frame out of pipe cleaners, 1x 16 cm (bended double for body and legs) and 1x 8 cm (for both arms). I wrapped some small strips of old elastic bandage round the pipecleaners.
Next, I made some little boots from Fimo (black and chocolate mix).

I thought I had to make the head and hands from scratch, but I found some that I had made last year. If I cut of the neck and the arms, I'm sure they will fit LOL
The trousers were finished next and the boots got some grey accents before I geve them a coating of clear nail polish :)

Tomorrow I'll be making the sweater and the hands, and maybe the hair, beard and hat as well (a)