Side Story: A little break for better

Huff..

It's been ages since my last post.. Recently I'm busy with my boy and finishing my little project 😣

And I have plan to rebuild and redesign this blog, my tutorial video and channel. I'm still finding the right characteristic.. So it's also gonna take take time.

Meanwhile, when I got the time (and pictures, sometimes I always forgot to take the process and when I realize my work already done, Gyaaarghh 😨) I'll post some pieces of my little project here. When I have finished it all, maybe I'll redo some of it in tutorial. A request is also welcome and I'll do my best for it 😊

Straight to the pictures ho ho

This french classic style console table is part of my little project. This is also the first time I'm using balsa wood to cut and carve. Surprisingly turns out it's strong enough to hold miniature things and it's really easy to carve and shaping. Although it's too lightweighty and a little bit fragile feelings when touching it, the textures and pattern of the woods is satisfactory. From three types of density, I used the soft one..maybe I'll tried the hard next time

Next task is painting it. Do I just varnish it? Or stain it brown? But then my project theme is for wedding, I want to made it white and a little bit sweet. So my option narrowed to shabby chic. Found some amazing chalk paint tutorial but I don't have any of those plaster of paris at the time. My eyes goes to leftover corn starch used from my last craft..mixed it with acrylic paint..and tada! Is it lovely? Wo ho ho 😳😁

After that I used a little bit of brown paint and scrape it stylishly to make it look a little bit rustic hee hee

That's for now. Next time I'm still updating about the progress of this little project. Thanks for viewing my page and see you again 😙

Chapter Three: Iris..? Succulent?

You like flowers? Me certainly likes it Ho Ho

Just so to say, there's new video tutorial on my channel. It's about Iris made from paper. I'm self colouring the paper with two ways. One with soft pastle, others with acrylic paint. All painted both sided of the paper. I rather self colouring than using colour paper, because it has that touch that makes the detail more real (?) Btw both colouring methods has it own feels results. You can choose whatever suited you.

Anyway, I'm not writing about the Iris this time. It's about.......... succulent *la la*

I always fond of succulent. Their miniature size, ermm..real life miniature not the handmade one.. It's just neat and cute. And those mini gardens of succulents? 😍

So I tried making succulents from styrofoam. I though the texture and the puffy of styrofoam suits together. But I don't have the punch that has the leaf shape..and I'm lazy to think cutting the pattern one by one. I mean if there's one plant then it's okay..but do I wanted to stop at one? Ha ha

Then this idea came. I made a cutter from leftover tin foil, shaped it like the plant pattern. The concept is like cookie cutter and I just hover the cutter over candle light before put it into the foam. Yup, just put it. You don't even have to push any because the foam melt like an ice being torch by 100 torchlight. Maybe even faster *LOL* and thats the problem.

The foam melted too much it just shrinked too tiny from the cutter. Much worse if the cutter not hot enough, it just cut halfway and stuck on the foam..hmm, I mean..glued on the foam ~~~~~~ T___________T

I made two cutter before. One is smaller. Surprisingly I tried the smaller one first and it turn out well. Just need to loosen it a little before pushing it out because it stick on the cutter. On bigger one..none turn out well. I need more experiments and practice on how long the heat needed

Anyway, the leftover from the experiments. I picked the ones that has 'forgiveable' shape then paint it with green and glued it together. Turn out it's not that bad. It got thickness from usually need to made out from clay, and looks better than the paper method one that looks flat from side.

I manually trim a little to get rid the rough side from sticking on cutter. Lastly..It's still not success from the making process. Gotta think about easier way to do or else I need to get the hang of the heat problem.

Btw, here's the video on Iris tutorial. You can also made other kinds of flower using the same way. Just different petal punch and different way of rolling the petal, depends on the type.

As soon as I get the hang of the succulent, I'll update the post next time.

Happy planting!

Chapter Two: Grab your bucket

Aye aye!

Few days ago uploaded my first video tutorial about making miniature bucket out of recycled tin foil

Why tin foil?

Because I collect lots of it from my little 'precious' formula can *LOL* thinking it's a waste to throw it and it can made lots of things out 'cause it has the right thickness. Not too thick so easier to cut, and still hard enough for structuring miniature things.

First things come to my mind is this bucket. There's tutorial making it from paper then painted to resembled the metal with rustic etc so on.

Well, Here I had a real tin and I just give a try. Made my own pattern because I need smaller size to fit my scale 1:20 project. Voila! Easier than I though at first.

After that I try a couple models. I really like the tall plain ones! It really looks like the one in real floral shop 🌸💕 looks fit with the bouquette of Iris I made later. The short one planted with lavender. That's it, I got addicted making more flowers then 😁

Here's some pictures of how I made it. More details on my video. Feel free to watch, and I'm really really happy to get some comment about my video and my tutorial. Any kinds of suggestion is welcome.

And I'm also happy to see your creations using this bucket. If you got instagram, just add and tag me on @alicetearoom 😊

I'll upload later my downloadable pattern with various scale and models to fit your need

Bucket up! 😁

Chapter One: Introduction

Hello there 🙋

I'm working on my new youtube channel alongside with this blogpost.

Then like Alice said ,

“And what is the use of a book,” thought Alice, “without pictures or conversation?”
-Lewis Caroll-
Alice in Wonderland

Since I'm getting hang on this (and in between my role as mommy of 'my preciousss...' *Golem mode on) I can't set up a regular posting time at first

Anyway please enjoy my first welcoming video here 🎥

It's a stop motion video on my kitchen island that I made a while ago. I'll be happy to read your comment and suggestion, thank you so much 🙏

Here is some picture of the island, it's on scale 1:10 since I planned to create a whole working kitchen with actual cooking in it

Why 1:10? We used a metric system in my country and it's much easier for me to convert the actual kitchen measurement into miniatures so the outcome is a bit larger the the common 1:12 scale outside but I think it's still 'forgiveable' LOL

Enjoy and Have a great day 👋

Epilogue

In a Wonderland they lie 
Dreaming as the days go by, 
Dreaming as the summer die

- Lewis Caroll -
Alice in Wonderland

It's my very first time on a blog

And I'm not really a good writer (yet)
My craft hands works better than my words *LOL

Just want to share some of my works.. and maybe some tutorial later on how I made my mini tini tiny itsy bitsy :-))

Hopes you like it

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