quick makeovers

 I bought some tiny dolls from a party shop ...badly painted party favours here you see after and before......big improvement :)

 I also got some imitation gold leaf and have been messing around with that ...ok not perfect but a definite improvement on the cheap plastic frames ...Do you agree?

Ingredients

 Im loving this book! Its not a book of minis but has fantastic photos of all kinds of ingredients :)

Not a great pic but heres a page with a wee fishy I made from fimo then painted :)

For Heather

Heather of My Dollar Dollshouse and I seem to have quite a bit in common ...she just posted a painting she did of Blue Dog ......If you look in this pic next to ART TODAY there is Blue peeking out LOL

Mystery Box

 things are a little out of order here sorry ....Dont know if its blogger being silly today or my brain ;) I glued some of the wooden pieces together and began carving.

 A little stain and believe me you will see the finished item somewhere among this mess :(

 I cut the top from a lid

 glued a section of golf tee to the bottom and made a cake stand ...finished item later

 here I used bamboo, sticks pop sticks ,plastic container from a punch and other plastic containers , parts of the medical stick on patches to make the lids of the toiletry containers

 from the two matching fabrics I made a bonnet

 this had me stumped for a long while but,....

 I turned it over and used it to mould tiny dolls for the girls in the dolls house

 the insert from the soda lids and the lids from the soy sauce bottles were left as it for a picnic set

 Here he is .../.the carving from earlier ....its supposed to be a hobby horse ;)

 The plastic section from the patches make great fun plates

 A siutcase lined with fabric from the box

 A very 80s dress made with more of the same fabric

 A basket from the bottom of the mint tin

 A toy rocket using the wing nut

 the cake stand after a coat of paint

 more lids cut from the medical patches

 the top of the mint container was seperated from the lid lining and the lining used as a baking tray

I know miniaussie hasnt finished yet but I need to post mine and move on.I know this is all a bit of a jumble but you can get the idea...I hope

Mesh beads!

 Has anyone else looked at these and instantly thought............

Soda syphons !!!!!! or am I going crazy ;)ha ha ha

How I made the spoons

 I discovered craft sticks or wax applicators or pop sticks came in lots of different sizes!! I used the tiny ones purchaced from a discount store as mini craft sticks but have also seen them sold as eyebrow wax applicators.

 First to get the bowl shape in the spoon I used my dremel tool but if you dont have one there is another way ;)

 Find something fairly strong with a curved end ( I used the end of an old pen ...plastic but strong)
possition it at the end of the stick and gently hammer ....it will form a nice bowl indent.

Next  repeat on the other end of the stick.then mark out your handle shape and carefully cut along the lines

 Sand the handles to make them round and shape some away from the under side of the spoon to help form the bowl shape

When you are happy with the shape simply cut the handle in the middle and you have 2 spoons .

Pottering

Im still trying to finish the long overdue mystery box Miniaussie and I have been working on ..so all I can show you at the moment are some real wood wooden spoons Ive been making :) I think they are comming along nicely.