Summer swap (garden shed) and a bit crafting together (July ^^)

I'm away behind with showing you the new stuff
I've made, so let's try to catch up :')

While crafting together with Jolinda and Connie
I worked on a chives plant. Another diy-kit 
from De Hobbyshop I'd bought through OMINIS.

I finished it the next day. Not that realistic
up close, but cute nontheless :)

Connie had surprised Jolinda and me with a homemade present. We
told her she should save it for our birthday swaps, but she didn't
want to ;) She has made us both a sewing kit box and a monopoly
game. I'm sure Penny will love to play Monopoly with her mother ^^

Kim and I'd agreed to do a summerswap 
 and I started working on it in June.

It was a tutorial from the DHN magazine and
I've made it with Balsa and stained it teak.

Made a couple of new flower pots because I liked
 doing them and tried to make bigger ones.

The terracotta pots are one of my favourites.

Though I liked these pots and jug even more :)

I tried to vary with different colors and structures.

Another favourite. Love cobalt blue :)

I'd also made a couple of metal signs for Kim,
featuring Harry Potter shops.
Again from the tutorial by Fabulously Small.

Greek miniatures for Jolinda - crafting together (September)

 

For the frame I found this image.

   

Looking for an image of a bust with draped fabric
I found this one I liked. I learned it's a bust from
 Jef Lambeaux ( 1852-1908), a Belgian artist. 

Sansevieria's and Bay leaf plants from diy-kits

I've made Sanseviera plants this weekend.
These were made with one of the diy-kits from De Hobbyshop I bought through OMINIS.

OMINIS is an international 'shopping centre' on the Internet. Born from the idea to create a kind of trade fair online in order to bring the participants and visitors together because the pandemic that started in March 2020 made organizing fairs impossible.
It's a shopping center with only shops selling handmade or handcrafted dollhouses and miniatures and shops with supplies for the dollhouse and miniatures hobby.

I also made a bay leaf plant, which was much more work ;)

I planted it in one of the pots I've made recently which meant I only used 3 out of 5 stems. I want to put the other 2 in a planter with other herbs.

I liked doing those kits, though I'll try to add a bit more detail and shading on the leaves next time :)

Making a paper flower pots and a jug kit

 

Making miniatures is getting more straining physically the last couple of years. And it lessened the fun I alway had. So recently I've bought some small kits at different webshops to get me back on track making miniatures and enjoying them :)
At 't Tafereeltje I've bought some flower boxes, a pizza cutter, a wooden pizza plate with handle and a kit to make nine flower pots and a jug from paper. All of which is for the Italian project.

I've make jugs and other things from paper before but never got the result I wanted so I was curious how this would turn out.
It was easy enough, the descriptions were clear and I like the effect of the paint with filler mixture.

The flower pots look very nice imo even though they are a bit smaller than I expected. But that will be a good mix with the flower pots and planters I already got. Plus need less flowers to fill them lol
I love how the jug turned out. I had choosen an olive acrylic paint and did - I think 3 or 4 layers before I gave it a gloss varnish coating.

Crafting together (June) and birthday swap

Yesterday we had our monthly crafting afternoon again. Extra special because we celebrated Connie's birthday, and also because Jenny (and her husband) from 't Tafereeltje dropped by.
Coffee, gifts and chatting ... oh my ;)

Jolinda had made this vase with gorgeous roses and some lovely baskets.

@ MiniaturenJolinda

Since Connie is working on a take away pizzaria atm and I've got a Pinterest board with lot of ideas for my own Italian project, it wasn't hard to decided what to make for her.
I went with a miniature wine rack inspired by this one (lots of similar images online):

I drew a design and made it from Balsa. 

Gave up on the rack for the glasses after the 3rd attempt and realised without it it's possible to either set the wine rack on a counter or hang it on the wall ;)

I've found some Italian wine labels online and resized and printed them for the wine bottles I already had.

Next I'd made a cork screw inspirered by this tutorial by Daniela mini though I used a spring from a pen.

It look so pretty I'm sure I'll be making another one for the wall of my trattoria ;)

Same goes for the metal signs I've made. Google provided me with lots of very nice images when I looked for 'vintage poster Italy'. Credits for the tutorial on making these signs to Fabulously Small.

Finally I tried to create a drip candle wine bottle. My first attempt with Fimo Liquid didn't work out :')
The (plastic, yes I know) bottle started to melt very soon. Since I'm used to put Fimo with paper of light bulbs in the oven, I didn't think it would work on the bottle as well ^^
So in the end I used acrylic paint.

After Jenny and her husband had left, we started crafting. Connie and Jolinda both worked on making furniture. I've started with a kit for a bay leave and did some crocheting in between. More about that in the next blog though ;)