shabby bits and bobs!

So, I bought some v cheap crappy furniture from Ebay and have been practising doing it up and making it look 'shabby'! Here's 2 little tables I 'shabby-fied'! I'm quite pleased for a first try!

 I've also been trying to create some little beach hut style ornaments. These are made from mounting  board and hand painted, no plans or templates! And about 2.5cm tall!

 And my final attempt at Blackberry jam! In a 1cm tall glass jar!

ALSO! I won an Ebay auction for a Greenleaf Buttercup dolls house! I now need to find time to build it and then the fun begins!! Going to make my own shabby little cottage!

lost in blog land....

I so easily get sucked into beautiful blogs. I have spent literally hours reading the entirety of Liberty Biberty's blog and am now YEARNING for a little cottage to put my very own shabby chic miniatures in. Through her blog, I have found other blogs....such as Salt and Pepper, and spent the last, oh god, too many hours reading her entire blog and through that found blogs she had become lost in and have read the harrowing ava rose meyer story. Though now wish I hadn't. feel sad. But blessed And then the Matt, Liz and Madeleine story. Though I couldn't bear to read much of this after the harrowing Ava story. Links below....

http://avarosemeyer.memory-of.com/About.aspx

http://sheyerosemeyer.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2007-06-10T10%3A35%3A00%2B10%3A00&max-results=40&reverse-paginate=true

http://www.mattlogelin.com/archives/2008/04/13/what-happened/

And now....feeling sad, I need to drag myself away from reading about other people's lives and need to type up some poems and find some cute little pictures for tomorrow's literacy lesson....
I have new pis to show. But no time to upload now.

Am bidding on a beautiful little dolls house on ebay to quench my thirst for a little house. It is already more then I wanted to spend....
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220678980354&ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT

mini makes....

I've mainly been experimenting with the best way to make miniature jam for some absolutely tiny 1cm tall glass jars I had. I've tried all sorts and not perfected it yet...but here are 2 tiny, tiny jars of Strawberry jam (the photo is not brilliant even using super macro on my camera!) Blackberry jam is next on the menu.....

Also, another dead pheasant (perfect for a tudor or victorian kitcchen scene!) He's the third I've made for sale. And is on Ebay now. I had offered him to someone on DHE blog, but they don't want him.

 And, my first attempt at making some of those vintage enamel looking jugs that everyone has been making from paper (care of marlies and minies I believe!) Not bad for a first try, but I'm going to keep practicing and make some in dif colours etc.

more little bits and bobs...

A few more things I've made recently....
First a tiny 1/12th scale skipping rope. This one in plain pine, I do them with coloured handles too:

 Tiny coloured pencil crayons!

 I little toy yacht!

 A tiny 1/12th scale dead rabbit ready for hanging up in a butchers or tudor or victorian kitchen!

Hope you like!