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)

Advent calendar 2020 - day 2 of Santa's workroom

I had ordered the booklet with the 24 challenges/tutorials (instead of getting a daily tutorial by mail). Apparently the first couple of days we'll be working on furniture but the Balsa wood I've ordered hasn't arrived yet :')

So instead of making the standing desk I've made 2 counter roll holders for wrapping paper. 

And this weekend I've already made 30 rolls of gift wrapping paper, some presents and a guirlande. Nothing complicated, just some bits of Balsa, and/or paper and glue.
Some might end up in the workroom and others in the toyshop :)

Advent calendar 2020 - day 1 of Santa's workroom

It's December 1st, so it's the start of Thea's Advents Calendar.

Last time I showed you the roombox I thought I could use for this project.

It turns out the roombox is almost three times the size of what Santa's workroom is supposed to be. I've thought of just doing a larger workroom and fill that up, but after some thinking I've decided to use one side of the space for the workroom and keep the rest for a toy shop. Which I won't be making this year obviously ;)

The workroom will still be the recommended size; 26 x 13 cm.

I made a plan for my roombox. There will be a wall/partition between the workroom and the shop, maybe a door with big windows on either side, maybe an open arc, because I don't want the work room to feel crammed.

The first day's challenge was to build the room (from styropor or something) which I didn't have to do (a) and the floor and wall paper. So I've done that. I made removable inserts just in case I'd change my mind on the wall paper, or having to make decisions about lighting later etc ^^

One wall I painted and tried to give it plaster-with-a-pattern look 😉

For the other I used a christmassy design pad. The floor is an insert as well. Maybe I'll change that and make a flooring with real wood but for now I'm okay with this.

Traditionally there will be a voting for the best/most beautiful roombox after the challenge and so you should stay anonymous untill then and not share photo's on FB or blogs.

But I'd rather share, because I’ll definitely get more enjoyment from that. I don't want not being able to post photos on FB or my blog for four weeks while everyone (not doing this challenge) is sharing their Christmas miniatures :)

Crafting together (November) - Santa project

Since crafting together in October I have done quite a bit by myself and the same goes for Jolinda. Again it was just the two of us last week so we started showing what we'd done so far :)

I had ordered some fabric for the waistcoat at Minidoor, as well as viscose hair fiber for Santa's wig and chenille to add fur trim to his clothes.

I went with the red fabric since everything
else would be red and/or white too.

The 'onesie' was the most difficult pattern to redesign :') 
The stockings however were easier then I thought.

He won't be wearing his coat, trousers and hat,
they will just be hanging on the back of the chair.

While Jolinda was here we both worked on the coat for our 

own Santa. And later that afternoon I made the hat.

I got some white velour to use as 

faux fur trim and finished the hat :)

So, Santa is progressing nicely. He obviously needs a new chair and some 

other props, but I don't have to worry about not finishing him in time for 

Christmas ;) That's probably why it didn't take Jolinda long to make me 

eager about joining Thea's Advents Calendar this year (a) It has been awhile, 

and having another project to focus on in December seems like a good thing 

during this semi lockdown :') I've already dusted off this roombox I'd bought 

a few years ago in Rijswijk, so I'm ready to go! :)

Christmas Cookies

 

As a birthday treat this year I'd ordered some cookie 
cutters from Svetlana Pavlova at Sweetminidollhouse.
I've wanted to try and follow one of her many amazing
tutorials for a long time and I've finally done it ;)

I used Svetlana's tutorial for the icing.

As well as her tutorial for using the cutters.

It took me awhile but I'm very pleased with 

the result of those first cookies made with cutters.