Just about to get started on my Miniature Mrs. Lovett's Pie Counter and a couple new things

First of all, welcome to my dear new followers!  Thanks for joining in to see what Sherry and I have coming up in the future!  We appreciate every comment and just adore talking to you all!  If you haven't joined Sherry's blog (19th Day Co-Creator Sherry who happens to be my beloved Mother-in-Law) you should go join her blog because she has some amazing skills!  I happen to think she makes some of the best birds in the business!  She's also very good at dressing some of my creations such as the white rabbit from alice in wonderland, the headless horseman, and alice in wonderland herself :)  Her blog is located here:  http://19thdayminiaturessherrys.blogspot.com/ 

What have I been doing the past couple of days?  First I made a ghost sculpture from polymer that I think would be neat in a haunted house scene or a Halloween graveyard:

which is available in my store now for the very reasonable price of $30.00.  I did it just for fun and it wasn't a big intense project :)  Apparently I like Halloween so much I can't stop making little bits of this or that in celebration of the season.

Then I had a custom order for another Honeydukes Chocolate Frog display so I got that done:

Sorry about the multiple shots but you all know I like messing around with photography and props :)

I think this turned out very good.  I did make the backboard sign a little bigger this time because I felt the last one was too short and didn't really say "display" as well as it should have.  It was still cute but I felt the back sign needed to be slightly taller.  That's the only change and it's not a major one.

Last night I decided to make a hanging sign out of this wooden ornament I had.  So I did :)  It's OOAK because I don't have another wooden ornament to use to make another, so when it's gone it's gone for good.  It had a hideous painted Christmas tree on it that I sanded off and then I refinished the piece into what you now see before you. The rustic wooden feel of the piece lent itself well to this particular Harry Potter place of business :) I felt it could really do the pub proud. It is meant to be glued directly onto the side of your miniature building-which is quite easy with an inexpensive glue gun that can be purchased at any hobby store or discount store. Not comfortable using one? A nice big glob of super glue will also do the trick, but you'll have to hold it in place as it dries! Matter of fact if you do use a glue gun I would advise going around the base with some super glue anyway to really hold it on after the hot glue dries. Oh you know, you'll figure it out :) It measures roughly 3 1/2 inces wide and 3 1/4 inches tall.  I tried to capture some of the look of the real sign at Universal Studios in Florida.  It's not exact by any means, but I think it works very well.  

I'm going to be making a Honeydukes Sign as well, which hopefully will look like the real one as close as I can get it with what I have on hand.

Also, tonight I begin my Mrs. Lovett's pie counter.  I had to wait on my husband to help me because he bought me a new scroll saw that's quite large and scary.  Two nights of fishing and running aside, I think I might have him pinned down tonight into helping me learn how to use it safely :)  This way I don't lose a finger or two trying to figure it out!  Although fingers really do fit into the grand scheme of the miniature I'll be making :)  But I was hoping to use some fingers in it that weren't actually mine :)  Hehe!  Ok enough goofing around.  Here's my bowls I picked up for it so far:  

I bought two that look very similar to this real bowl and look just as antique and primitive and they were the only ones I could find on all of ebay and etsy like this bowl:

but they only have one solid blue band around the rim.  And then I bought these that looked aged as well and slightly icky-looking:

because again, they looked old and used.  Remember everything must be a little gross :)  I also picked up a different bowl that will hold eggs and a wire whisk for beating them.  I'm making a rolling pin because I couldn't find one similar enough to hers in the movie.  I have so much to do but at least you get the idea :)  Of course these will be the worst pies in London :)

Also I should mention this might already be sold, not quite sure.  It depends on if she likes how it turns out :)

Alrighty then everyone, have a lovely day and keep on collecting!

 

   

 

 

Dollhouse Miniature Marie Antoinette Set done, and other new items

I've been having a bit of trouble at home with our renovations to our house, so mini making has been on the back burner :(  Why is it when you tear into an old house that you find more issues than you ever thought you would?  Anyway, sleep has been hard to come by and things got a little crazy.  We've gotten some help from family and friends now and are finally getting a little peace.  Heck last night I even got some sleep!  I did finally get my Marie set done though, and a couple other things listed that were quicker to do:

Eeek, you can see my shirt and jacket in the mirror :)  I was a little iffy about the face on the wig stand, but I figure anyone who might not like it could easily paint it plain white with craft paint and it would look like a faceless mannequin head stand.  Everything else is pretty I think.  This is a totally girly set.

Also, this is OOAK.  It won't be made EVER again lol.  

Available here in my store:

http://www.etsy.com/listing/83066580/dollhouse-miniature-112-scale-marie

Here's neat little thing, a witch vanity table:

A pretty little witch's vanity, for your dollhouse! I personally think not all witches are hideous old crones! I mean really, they start out young at some point don't they? Just picture a young Bellatrix Lestrange getting ready to go out and there you have it, her setting at a vanity table like this one getting ready! There's even a beautiful box of poisons on the table! What else? Sex-ay

little black gloves that have recently done some dirty work, a vanity tray with bottles and a single rose from an admirer, a book on palm reading for the girl "in the know", a mirrored compact with powder puff, a gorgeous little facial mirror on stand with a crescent moon and a little lady witch laying back on it. Like I said, this is for a girl who knows not only how to cast a spell (and not just with a wand :), but also knows her way around a good curse or hex!

And then a necklace I just made and listed (not a miniature, a regular necklace to be worn):

Both of these can be found here:

http://www.etsy.com/shop/tarayvonne?ref=si_shop

Yay, life is getting a little back to normal for me now :)

     
 

Miniature Marie Antoinette updates, and a new project on my plate

I'm a little tired out after my company left but I've managed a little work on my Marie Antoinette set.  It's not cleaned up yet after all the handling from me working on it so there are a few visible boo boos in these pictures especially on the mirror.  All of that will be cleaned off in the end.  I decided it needed a few frou frou touches here and there to posh it up a bit.  This is based on Marie Antoinette after all :)  And I pulled off one of the brass pedestal dishes to make way for the forthcoming stand and wig.  The other matching pedestal on the other side I made into a fancy little rose flower arrangement.  So flowers on one side, fancy wig on the other :)  I have to make a little jewel dish for the bare side as well.  There will be more on this in time.  I'm just a little tired out right now.  The side chest of drawers has a little sign on it with Marie's famous saying "Let them eat cake" and beside it is a lovely pink filigree cake stand I made.  There's just no cake on it yet because I'm not at that point yet.  I still have a little painting to do on the furniture because I saw some flaws when I took it out into natural light to photograph it today.  Those will be cleaned up and fixed as well.  I want this set as close to perfect as I can get it in the end :)  I figure if no one buys it I can always keep it :)  I like putting out minis just for decoration in my house in random areas.  I think this would be darling in the bathroom or bedroom on a shelf :)  Who ever said minis couldn't be regularly displayed wherever you want in your home?  I like them wherever I want them!  Hehe.  If it's crazy I don't care because it's my house after all :)  Well anyway, here's what little I have done so far:

Yikes this does need cleaned up a bit.  But you get the idea anyway.  I get things all goobed up while I'm working on them and then I clean them up well before the final reveal :o  Oh wells, ya know :)

One last thing, I have just recently watched Sweeney Todd for the first time and have fallen in love with it :)  I can't believe I haven't seen it before now.  I guess it's because the whole musical thing put me off.  I figured it would be annoying.  And it was for my husband, so maybe it's not much of a guy thing.  Don't know.  Me being the Tim Burton fan that I am though, I should have given it a chance.  Finally curiosity got the better of me after seeing some great minis based on it.  I bought a copy on ebay cheap and instantly was smitten with it :)  It's not your regular musical by any means.  Yes there is a ton of singing but the whole theme is horror based so it's ok in the end.  I will admit I can't watch the murder scenes well.  I end up looking away.  But the rest is so charming I forgive those icky scenes.  It's darling if you watch it closely and pay attention to the plot. 

And the point of this is I have to make Mrs. Lovett's pie making counter, bugs and all.  Pies with fingers sticking out of them, cockroaches, etc.  It's too hilarious not too.  It's so disgusting!  My corny sense of humor was taken with the absurdity of the whole thing.  It will be grimy, flour everywhere, cockroaches climbing all over the food, etc.  Horrible, yet somehow funny.  I guess you'd have to see the movie to "get   it".  This will be another I could seriously keep just for the fun of it.  Because the macabre nature of it 

delights me in ways I don't even understand lol!  I can't explain it to you if I can't even explain it to myself hehe.  All I know is that I was struck with an uncontrollable desire to make this gross mini and have been shopping for parts ever since :)

          

Update-now SOLD-Our miniature version of the Headless Horseman is done :)

This item is now sold to someone in my area, it is no longer available.

Updated-new pictures:

Yesterday's post:

I only have to add a little hair around the hooves and this guy is finished :)  I would have had it done but the light was fading outside and I wanted to snap some pictures before I lost the opportunity to shoot them outside.  Sherry got him all dressed, I made his sword and put him on the horse with his flaming pumpkin head in his hand.  He's glued in, reins in hand.  I added some scenery to the base, just a little because I didn't want it to distract from the Horseman and his horse Goblin.  I added a little blood here and there, because this is the Hessian Horseman who collects heads until his own is returned :)  Of course there would be blood.  Tonight I'll be finishing him up by adding a little hair around the hooves of the horse and then he'll be listed tomorrow.  This was our big Halloween project and finishing it marks the end of our Halloween crafting.  I have some custom orders to do, but I want to finish up my Marie Antoinette set first.  I have some lovely ideas for it.  But for now, here's Sherry and I's version of the Headless Horseman (and yes it's lot of pictures but some are better than others or offer a better look at one thing or another):

I'm not going to blog this after I add the hair because the difference won't be enough to worry about.  This will be listed tomorrow sometime at the price of $275.00.  It's 9 1/2 inches tall, around 7 1/2 inches wide at the base.  It's a 1/12 scale horse and rider.  Also I forgot to mention that there is glow in the dark paint used here and there all over this set so there is some glow to it when the lights are off.  Key parts of the horse like the eyes, nostrils, hooves, etc. are glow painted.  And the horseman's neck is made of glow in the dark clay that really glows well :) 

   

Update on the miniature Halloween Headless Horseman

Sherry and I have been hard at work when we can on this Headless Horseman's horse Goblin (as referred to in the original story about Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving which can be read here:  http://www.bartleby.com/310/2/2.html
We have been hand-sculpting the horse which is not done yet and has no ears at this point and makes him look strange.  He will have ears of course, as well as a neck and gorgeous Tibetan lambs wool hair mane and long tail.  He will need to be smoothed out by sanding and then painted, so this is rough yet.  But Sherry did a lovely job sculpting the face while I have been busy building the body.  I think he will be quite fearsome in the end :)  He'll have red eyes!  The horseman will be dressed in black with a partially red cape and of course have no head.  He will instead be holding a flaming pumpkin head as if he were about to throw it at someone :)  Sherry and I will be building a leather saddle as well as a bridle.  It should be petty cool before it's all over.  Here's what we have so far:

I think he'll be really good in the end.  He's pretty rough right now, but I won't rest until he's as good as I can manage.  I know Sherry's on her game with this one too, so we'll both be working to get him right and his master as well :)

Let them eat cake!

I have a very basic start on this, with just the finish on the dressing table done.  I have big plans for an elaborate style miniature that Marie herself would have been quite at home sitting at.  A powdered wig with curls, makeup, hairbrush, and so much more :)  There will be a matching small chest of drawers with a lovely cake stand on it, holding a pretty little cake and a small frame with the credo attributed to her "Let them eat cake!".  Here's the finish they will both have:

It's raining here today so I had to shoot these pictures in my photocube :(  So they're bad.  But you get the idea :)

Sherry and I are still working on the horse for the headless horseman, but it's going to take a little time.  It's not the easiest thing in the world to sculpt a rearing horse.  So the project will take awhile.  When I get to a place where I feel comfortable showing it, I'll post it here.

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Dollhouse Miniature Halloween Set now done :)

Remember the bench?  I decided to go Halloween Prim with it, with bright colors and patterns and rustic details so popular with country-style enthusiasts.  And it matched the peg tree so much that I made them a set :)  Here's what I started with:

A basic bench, nothing special.  I padded it, and wrapped it in a miriad of different colorful Halloween patterns.  I decided it would be neater as a love seat, usable inside a house instead.  Here's what I did:

I love different backgrounds! 

Ok, so this may not be for everyone, obviously, but there are people who collect this style of Halloween design.  Twine and antique buttons and colorful patterns galore.  And a Jack O Lantern flower arrangement.  Bright Country Prim Halloween :)

Available here:

http://www.etsy.com/listing/82331313/miniature-prim-dollhouse-miniature

A grave situation, in miniature :) And another Harry Potter Miniature for good measure

Ok you know how I said I wouldn't be making any more minis until Sherry got here?  Well apparently I fibbed :)  Having caught the Halloween fever I couldn't help but whip up a few haunted house graves.  These are messy to make, and not a lot of fun to clean up after doing.  I figured I'd save someone else the hassle and make some in case anyone was making a spooky scene and needed some.  I had last years graveyard scene which I didn't really like how it turned out at all.  I took on too big of a project and wimped out on it after so long.  And I was so new to mini making that I just didn't have the experience yet to do it as well as it needed done.  I tore it apart and used some of the parts to make smaller individual graves.  These could be added into a scene much easier.  I'll zip it and just show you:

The first is a more traditional grave with an additional calla arrangement made by Sherry can can be placed anywhere.

The second is a pair of graves that can be used together or seperately.  They are more Halloweenish in design and have the funny skeletons coming up out of the dirt.  Man these pictures are horrid, so much better in person :( 

Another thing, I've added a set of Harry Potter mini butterbeer bottles and pumkin juice bottles up for general sale in the store. 

I had two custom orders for these so I figured if I'm making them might as well add a set for general sale too :) 

Everything available here:

http://www.etsy.com/shop/tarayvonne?ref=si_shop