Happy Easter

I've been playing with clay,

yesterday I watched a video on
Creating Dollhouse Miniatures blog  ,
showing how to make daffodils  with
cold porcelain.


I think that the techniques adapted well to polymer clay.


The basket, eggs and orange vase were
also made from polymer clay.

My daffodils are a bit oversized and not
super life-like.  I will call them decorative daffodils.


The cutter that I used for the petals
was meant for use with gum paste/fondant
for cake decorating.

I really enjoyed making the daffodils but I disliked
making the leaves and could not get them quite right.



I'm going to try making leaves with floral tape,
I need to buy some in light green, I only have dark green now.


The vase is a ceramic bead.

I had difficult time getting a nice ruffle
on the trumpets, this one is the best but
I  could not seem to repeat it.

The cute little bunny was a gift from
Maria of  Pretty Things Ireland blog . 


I think he enjoyed being part of the
decorations.














I hope that your Easter is warm and sunny and that you have a wonderful day.

Thank you for visiting, Mary

Who Lives Here?

I finally bought a  Lekman box   from Ikea a few weeks ago.

I've been trying to put together a Christmas scene but it was not going well.  I somehow misplaced a box that has most of my Christmas items.  Hopefully I'll locate it soon.

Today I recieved some scrapbook paper that I ordered, so I decided to put Christmas aside for a bit and set a different scene.

I wanted to show you this multi colored  LED Light  that I found in the floral department at Walmart.  It has a push button on the bottom to cycle through the setting:    green, blue, purple, pink/blue,  pink/green, blue/green,  pink/green/blue or it can cycle through all the colors.  This is the purple (they call it pink).

I placed it on a finding/stand.

Here its lit green.

The tables are acrylic displays  from Amazon.

The  sofa is a  jewelry display  from Fire Mountain Gem.  They also have it in white .

The vase is a porcelain bead, also from Fire Mountain Gem.

The doily is a piece of venetian lace.

 I made the pillow today.

It took about 3 minutes, if you would like to know how leave a comment and I will try to show how I did it.

I think that the scene could use a few more details,  something on the coffee table and maybe  a large potted plant on the left side but I could not find what I was looking for.

I need to keep trying to get more organized, this is what I have for now.

The artwork and the area rug came from this DCWV Rock Star mat stack that bought from
DCWV Deals .   

These are some of the other sheets that I think will make good area rugs.

I've added a few new links to  M's Lists  that you may find useful for your Christmas Projects

      Tutorials - Christmas  -  Now more than 25 links
      Printies - Christmas   -   Now over 40 links
      Tutorials - Flowers and Plants  -  More than 70 links
                        Including  Poinsettia, Christmas cactus and palm trees (for nativity scenes)
      Tutorials - Food    -    Now over 50 links
                       Some things that you may like apples, oranges, grapes, cakes,
                                                                         cupcakes, cookies and pies.


Thank you for visiting, Mary

Christmas in July Swap

First I want to thank   Jazzi   for organizing this fun swap,  you can find pictures and links on her blog.

Here are the pictures that I promised

Look at all the wonderful gifts from   Cyd ,  they made Jaynie very happy.

2  great chairs
4 pretty pillows
lovely wall art  (I may try to add tiny hands to
      it if I can fit it in Jaynie's kitchen as a clock)
a interesting rock sculpture
a very nice bowl with feet
a great sheet of printed felt, makes a great floor cover or could be cut to use as artwork

Here's a closer look

 And I almost forgot this great light.

Thank you very much Cyd.   I love eveything, Jaynie's Loft will be much more interesting with these lovely gifts.

 And she even wrapped them all with a very generous amount of pretty printed tissue paper.













And here are the little things that I put together for Cyd.

Cyd posted pictures of some furniture that she had painted in her favorite colors,  (see them here) , so I used those colors as a guide for these gifts.

I made her a set of pillar candles and a rug from upholstery fabric

I put together a scrapbook and a package of     scrapbook paper

I sent some porcelain beads, mainly vase shaped and a cat.

Some closer views.

At the last minute I threw in a few more small items,  a few beads, a blue pen,    I didn't take pictures of them.

BTW  Cyd already used the rug and scrapbook in a bedroom scene at  My Mini Mod Pod      

Here are some links to others that participated in the swap

Jazzi  
Heather
Claude
Petra
Drora
Debbie
Fabiola
Anna
Annette


Thank you for visiting, Mary