witch's kitchen 95% complete

Holy moly... that is all I can say about my creation.  I love that I have been blessed with the ability to conjure a project I my head, make every aspect and see my results.

I was really stumped on my chair.  I made two that I didn't like.  I got it right this time!  No measurements.  Just balsa wood and a finger nail file... and glue and drop cloth for the seat.  It even rocks!  Well not now because I had to glue everything down.

I was also  bit stumped on the bookshelf.  I finally started making crate yesterday and wound up making three and using the little feet I made for the second chair.  It turned out better than the normal book shelves that I had originally planned.

I decided I wanted a rug.  I dug around my fabric stash until I found the right fur.  Who ever heard of a light green bear rug?  Me that's who.

These little bottles are the only thing that I didn't make by hand.  I did fill them with tiny glitter though.

How do you like my demon goat scull??  Just made it this morning in about 10 minutes.

 I have added  a few more things since this picture.  All I have to do now is the outside to hide the light switches and I am done.  I am so in Love with my little creation!!!  Now what I am gonna do?!?!

witch's kitchen fireplace

Talk about studying over something!  I knew my next step for the witch's kitchen was the fireplace or stove.  I tossed ideas back and forth for days.  As with my normal process... it hit me and I did it.  Yesterday Morning I got out a good piece of cardboard, some scissors and masking take and got to bending and making.  Then, I covered it with "stone" like the floor and added a mantle and chimney.  While stoning the front I stopped and made a horseshoe just like we have on the front of our fireplace.  I LOVE the way this turned out.  Although I can't yet mount it in the kitchen because I broke down and ordered the nine dollar flickering "fire" today!!!  Yay!

This is our life sized fireplace.

witch's kitchen update

Well I'm just going to say it... This Is Fun!!

I have been working on my witch's kitchen in my spare time for two weeks now.  I have some fun accessories that I made out of clay and painted, I have my funkin and as of today I have a floor and lights!   I made the faux stone floor from THIS tutorial.  The clay things I just made from scratch.  The chandelier was made following THIS tutorial.  I gave my funkin the aged look using THIS tutorial.  Not that I couldn't have come up with versions and methods myself but this internet thing is really helpful.  I'm probably going to reach our data limit for the first time in months!  Every little bit of progress on this pumpkin diorama tickles me because my ideas are coming to light.

Now I am thinking about the fireplace and furniture and base with greenery.  It is all so much fun and I love having a project.  Even though I have help from the web world this makes me feel like an artist in some way.

Mice, eyeballs, dragon eggs, unicorn horns... goodness.

I love these pumpkins.

Eyeball for the potion book.

Leather from Barb :)

I literally sat making this stuff for about 5 hours.

I love the kitty with sparkle green eyes.

This pumpkin was the easiest thing to carve.  I used a fingernail file around the opening to smooth it out.

 

 Much better after detailed.

I have since added the little candles I made to the chandelier.  It was gold but I spray painted it satin black.  This little led puts out an OK amount of light.  Makes me possibly want to cut a window or maybe light up the fire in the fire place.

I am really happy with the floor.  I was going to go with wood but as fate had it I chose this.