Final Friday of the month? It’s time to talk crafts and projects. Feel free to talk about your own in the comments! I would love to see them.
And we’ll be back to View-Master in two weeks! I’m taking next week off for the 4th of July! Hope you get to eat BBQ soon.
So, I like making miniatures. It’s well documented at this point.
My love of tiny things is long-standing and probably dates back to my childhood. When I was a little girl, my family surprised me with a dollhouse — a top childhood memory — with a little backstory. Allegedly, per my mom, my dad bought the dollhouse kit at a flea market but it was missing some stuff (like instructions, maybe?). So my grandfather, a great carpenter and woodworker, was tasked with putting it together.
It’s been crated for the last 20-plus years, but my husband helped me dig it out of deep storage in our basement because I have always wanted to outfit it.
Fresh out the slammer! It was in rough shape.
So I did a complete repaint of the exterior to kick off this project.
I felt like it needed a design concept around which to outfit the many rooms. And I know I didn’t want it to be too perfect or pristine. So the concept I came up with is that this is the loved-but-rundown house of an eccentric woman. She’s got eclectic taste, collects objects and art from he rmany travels, she’s a little overwhelmed by the size of the place, doesn’t worry too much about keeping it all clean. Oh, and she’s a practicing witch and has a woman in white ghost who lives in her secret attic room.
There *might* be a dead body rolled up in a rug in the music room. But we’ll get to that much, much later.
First, I rehabbed the exterior, gave it a fresh coat of paint, made little window boxes filled with greenery I created from dried thyme and sprigs I got at the craft store. I made several planters out of thrifted tea light candle holders (painted with a craft paint and distressed with a distressing kit I bought awhile back).
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My husband created a deck floor from some scrap wood he had. And my first effort at interior design was making a bunch of mini witch’s broom to tuck around the house. They were made with real twigs and twine and dried floral scraps.
So that’s the start! I’m pretty happy with it for a few reasons, not the least of which is that it helps me feel connected to my parents and my grandpa, all of whom are long gone, sadly. But working on this same thing they once worked on makes me happy.
I also made a blue ombre cake with a custom HAPPY BIRTHDAY banner and sparkler candles for my husband’s birthday earlier this month!
What about you? What have you been up to? Feel free to drop anything at all in the comments!
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House is lookin' good! Some dark-ass secrets in there, I dig it. Looking forward to hearing about that rug, holy moly.