I couldn't put my mind to anything until I knew the house had been picked up and then I managed to put together a little table using the resin experiment I recently blogged about.
http://myrtlemanorminiatures.blogspot.co.nz/2013/04/creative-flow.html
This nearly ended in disaster when I tried to squeeze black paint out of a tube and the tube 'exploded'. Black paint on my desk, on me, on my clothes and on the carpet. Not impressed! I finished the table surrounded by black paint and then proceeded to clean up myself and my workroom. Needless to say it dampened the creative spirit and I didn't get any more miniatures done today.
Anyway, here is the table. I used two plastic pizza spacers for the legs (the type you get in a pizza delivery box that stops the lid from sitting on the pizza). I cut one prong off each spacer and then joined them together.
Will take some photos of my Amersham house tomorrow and put them on the blog. In the meantime I hope you are having a great weekend.
Hi Sharee, I hope your daughter and husband are arrived at home safe and sound? It must have been a long time to wait....
ReplyDeleteI am sorry to read your tube with black paint exploded. Your table turned out well, I don't know that kind of pizza spacers. I am sure you can use them for a lot of miniatures. I wish I had a few of those spacers.....
I hope you can show to us the pictures of the new purchased houses soon.
Have a great weekend, Ilona
Very smart and effective way you made the feet of the table. Good job!
ReplyDeleteI'm waiting to see your new dollhouses.
Hugs.
Ah!How I understand you! When opened a few days ago the lid of a flask of ivory paint the lid jumped up to the ceiling .. that fright! The painting decorated everything around it... The legs of your table are perfect .. I have never found here these..I hope you can show to us the pictures of the new houses soon..Hugs
ReplyDeleteHi Sharee! Clever Girl! I love the way you used the spacers! I would have never thought of using 2 together. They are very effective and now you can eat pizza off the top of the little table too! The table is wonderful!
ReplyDeleteSorry to hear about the Big Black Splash! I know exactly how you feel. I had started screwing on the lid to a LARGE JAR of white gesso and then left it for a moment to do something else, returned and picked up the jar by the lid which was not fully secured and down went a big plop of white gesso onto my lap and onto my black leather boot and the carpet! I was so mad at myself! I managed to scrape the paint off of both my lap and the boot which I was the most concerned about and the carpet too. (Thank you God! ) Aside from the tiny bit of white that got onto the stitching of the sole of the boot ; it is almost invisible! As for the carpet.... well you know, once I drop something onto this floor I can almost NEVER find it again and this time I am actually happy to say that!
elizabeth
p.s. I love that cat!!!!
Clever you Elizabeth. I wondered what to put on the top of the table for the photo - a pizza would have been ideal. White gesso would have made even more mess than my black paint. I need to have another clean of my carpet but I've almost got rid of all signs of the black paint now. It was only a matter of time before the carpet wore something!
DeleteYou are so smart and creative! Thank you for sharing!
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