The Bedroom again

I am getting there with the bedroom.  I filled a glass jug with some juice and placed a few items on top of the dresser.  The 'juice' I poured from a gel candle (not wax, but gel), which liquifies when it is heated.  I also put a few little seed beads in, which should have sunk and floated in the 'juice', but I wasn't quick enough and the gel had set again.  No big deal, it looks good anyway.... 

 

I took the photo in 'Scroog's room' as it
shows up better than in the cottage bedroom.

This will be all for a while.  I am still looking for the little cauldron which has disappeared and I am working on a knitted blanket for the bed.  I will take my time finishing that one...

In the meantime, look for updates on my Florist blog.

The bedroom

Having worked on my miniatures and my blogs only intermittently over the years I must have missed a few things here and there.  One of them is my lovely witch! I have never shown a picture of her and she is beautiful.  I don't have a very clear picture of her yet, but this will do for the moment:

And I decided she really needs a bedroom so she can have a good rest at the end of the day.

I've shown you the chest of drawers in my last post.  Since I have added a rug and a bed with mattress.

The rug was a print I have had for ages.  The bed I have made a long time ago as well.  It was meant for a miner's cottage that I am probably never going to build anyway, so the witch can have it.  It is a metal bed, soldered with the help of a template we were given.  It was a workshop at the club.  The mattress I have made only a few days ago, having copied another one from a workshop I did years ago. It helps when you have stuff lying around...

That's it for the witch's cottage.  Further work was done on the Florist in the meantime.

Return to the cottage

It's been far too long since I have worked on my cottage.  So much has happened since I put the crows on the roof....(and I have lost one since...)  The complete story would be too long and too boring, but the short version is that after 2010 I have moved house again.  I have a new and bigger hobbyroom and after a bit of persuasion by my (new) husband I am trying to find time and interest again in my miniatures.  

My first step on all levels is to do repairs (moving house is never ideal if you have dollshouses) and then finish off some of my projects.

The cottage was nearly finished downstairs, and my lovely witch didn't have a bedroom yet.  After some repairs (the roof corner was one of them) and painting a little table, I am starting upstairs.  The cookpot in the fireplace and the cauldron in the front were damaged when my cottage was on display at a local museum.  I have repaired the cauldron, but can't (yet) find the cookpot.  

The table on the left still needed a coat of paint

And this is what it looks like now

I couldn't find the little mouse after moving house.  It was hiding:

I have also bought a crystal ball since my last update:

I believe I never showed the finished wall shelving:

And this then is going to be the start of the bedroom.  I had this unsightly, cheap piece of furniture.  Normally I don't like to use those, because the are not really to scale and rather ugly, but.... with a bit of sanding and a coat of paint I transformed it for a good-enough piece for the witch's bedroom.