Lilly's Room in a Fun-kin

 A good day to you all!  Some time ago I ordered a sweet little felted mouse from an artist in Russia.  She is a little girl mouse that I have named Lilly.  When I ordered her, I knew it would take some time before she arrived and had the idea to make her very own room. I had a mint green faux pumpkin that I had bought half price after Halloween the year before.  This was the perfect thing to use for her room.

BTW, Lilly's Room will be a two or three part blog posting.  So stay tuned.

Here I have already cut out the design for the opening.  You simply draw the shape you want and cut it out.  Then you can shape it up with your knife and a fingernail file to smooth the edges.  I also painted the inside pink.

Here is a picture of me levelling the floor.  I have another tutorial on how to add a floor to your faux pumpkin HERE.

I wanted her to have a window so I traced a soup can and cut it out.  In this picture I also have added gold polka dots to the walls. 

Skipping around a touch... for the flooring I cut strips from a cereal box and painted the brown side white.  Then I used mod-podge and the top layer of a floral napkin.  I went over the edges or each cut piece with a brown ink pad to define the edges a bit.  I learned this technique from Jennifer's Miniatures on Facebook.

Then you simply cut the pieces to fit your flooring area and glue down.  I always like to start in the middle of the room.

Flooring complete!

On to the lighting!  I made this little chandelier from wire then painted it white.  There is a bead in the center that the light cord will go through and the flowers in the middle are hot glued on to hide the bead.  The plastic flowers for the lights are super old.  I got them at a garage sale.

The chandelier design is not my design.  Cinderella Moments taught me that one.  You can find her tutorial HERE.  Also I purchase my LED lights from Evan Designs.

In this picture the fun-kin is upside down.  I am gluing the chandelier base to the ceiling.  I planned to run the wiring along the ceiling and down the wall to the left of the opening to I can easily turn the switch on and off and get o the battery.

I used strips of the white part of the left-over napkin from the flooring to secure the wiring.

After the glue dried I simply painted the covered wiring.  You truly don't even notice it unless you're looking for it.

This is where the wiring, switch and battery holder are.  Right inside the pumpkin.

In this last picture you can see the coin cell battery holder on the left.  

It's beginning to look like a sweet room for her!  Oh... I also used a piece of clear plastic packaging for the window and just cut a circle and panes from cardstock.

Have a great day my Dears!  Stay tuned for the next visit to Lilly's Room!

Miniature Easter Bunny Cakes

Good day to you all!  Today I am showing how I made Easter Bunny Cakes from pill packs.  These are from Benadryl packs that I had to take from touching poison ivy by accident.  I simply added a dollop of hot glue for the head and tail.  While the glue was warm, I stuck in some ears cut from card stock.  Then painted with white paint and pick for the ears and black for the eyes.  I then used green tinted saw dust for the grass.

The chocolate cake is just four small buttons glued and stacked and covered in hot glue then painted.  I used clear fingernail polish to get the shine of ganache. 

The cake stands are buttons with card stock trimming and glued onto premade tiny stands.  And the eggs I made from clay and painted.

I think they turned out very sweet.  Sweet enough to eat!  

 

Miniature Vintage Metal Lawn Chair Tutorial

 Howdy all!  I know the title says "metal" chair but in fact the chair is not metal.  Just made to look like the old metal lawn chairs that your Granny used to have.  I love these chairs.  Especially the old, worn, rusty ones.  Although the ones that are refinished have their charm too.  

Mine is made from a piece of paper covered wire that I can't quite remember where it came from.  One might think I just hoard a lot of trash with the hopes of making a miniature out of it one day but it just isn't true.  I only keep the cool stuff. I also used card stock and paint.  

I have really been digging using layered card stock lately.  The more you layer, with wood glue in between the layers, the sturdier it gets.  Plus, you just use a fingernail file to sand the edges and it will have a solid edge.  But, if you are slightly impatient like me you make have layers that show... just a little.

P.S. I didn't take pictures of me bending the wire... just wing it.

Here's what we're going for... the finished product.

P.S.S. I included zero measurements in this tutorial.  Once again... wing it.

Pretty sure I wound up using seven layers of card stock.. could have been six.

I bent the pieces of paper then glued the seat parts together first, one by one.  Then glued the back layers together.  Not sure why really... it just felt right.  I also used a fingernail pick thing and pressed in a design on the back part.

I just used dabs of wood glue when I put the chair together.  I truly in my guts feel that the glue held better because of the paper-ish covering on the wire.  I feel I would have had trouble if it was just metal wire.  I might try making another one from a coat hanger just to check.  But there is somewhat tension in the wire so it held nicely.

I'm slightly funny about my painting and will often apply many layers of paint that I am not exactly happy with before I get my final look.  I initially wanted the chair to be yellow.  This is the first coat of paint.  I used chalk paint for this coat. 

This is me with half of the paint colors I dragged into the kitchen for one tiny chair.  Hey, whatever makes a girl happy right?!?!

I LOVE this part... the part of my project that I am satisfied with.  I dab too much paint to certain areas, that also have wet school glue under them, then use a paper towel to take up a little paint.  It left the chair with am old paint look.

Isn't that just delicious??!!

So cute. (Although I have issues with the word "cute")

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XOXO ~Laurie

Miniature Laundry Cart Tutorial

Hello mini friends!  I don't quite recall what inspired me to create this little laundry cart.  I'm sure I saw a picture while scanning IG.  

I don't know about you, but for me working with wire is not easy.  The glue that I use doesn't want to adhere to wire and I don't know how to solder. Maybe I'm just not patient enough to wait for the right kind of glue to dry.  Even when I have been patient enough my projects would still fall apart.  So, in this project I use small strips of cardstock across the wire to hold it in place and simply make a tight pinched bend on the wire frame.  For the actual, rectangle frame I used tape.  Then when adding the canvas basket I used wood glue.  

When I made the first cart I didn't have trouble when I made the holes for the "wheels" from tiny eye hooks.  When making the second cart for tutorial pictures, the wood split.  I simply glued pieces of cardstock to repair the splits.  If you use something small, like a toothpick, to mash holes where the legs will be before screwing them in your wood shouldn't split.

I used an old piece of fabric for the basket.  You can also use drop cloth.

You can use whatever kind of stamping for the laundry business design that you have.  I wound up using some old leather punch stamps.  I call it Carriage House Laundry.  I ironed folded creases to go over the cart frame and glued them into place with wood glue.

I cut small strips of fabric for the handles and ironed a fold in the. and just glued them on.

The second cart went together a lot faster than the first one.  Trial and error!  

At first, I was going to add button wheels but decided in the end that they didn't need them.  

Hope you enjoy!!  

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