Friday, May 10, 2024
When Finish it off Friday turns into Frustration Friday
Thursday, May 09, 2024
My poor tired brain is trying to be helpful
You'll recall I mentioned looking for my decanter on Tuesday.
Well, I've had no luck finding it so far (and, alas, the current weather isn't quite up to a scoot down to see James and buy a new one from him: it's times like this that I do miss having a car), and am starting to wonder if it is in fact imagined.
But my poor tired brain is trying ever so hard to be helpful.
First, and fairly easily, it found me this, which I'd made from a Trash to treasure kit given to me back in 2015:
(Which, granted, could work in a pinch if I dig out something suitable for a stopper).Wednesday, May 08, 2024
A framing frenzy
My stash drawer reorganisation worked a treat and I was able to place my hands on both my stash of overhead-projector film and my container of small white card scraps within seconds of opening the drawer, which pleased me greatly.
And meant that I could spend my lunchtime framing rather than finding:
I approached the framing a bit differently to how I usually doing it, using washi tape to hold things in place rather than my usual approach of gluing a sheet of thin brown paper bag over the back.This means that the framing isn't permanent and I can easily swap in a different picture for a future scene that I need the frame for. Hopefully this approach will hold together once I attach them to the wall with Blu Tack...Tuesday, May 07, 2024
A productive lunch break
Monday, May 06, 2024
Questions, questions
I finally asked myself my standard 'Who lives here?' question for this scene at lunchtime today, which caused me to wonder and ponder as I sorted through my art stash to find items that that person might chose for their walls, then set them out for further scrutiny and decision making:
I also pulled out some blue items to try, as I mentioned last week,and found myself trying out some windows (which I last used back in December 2020, with a different background in them).Which lead me to wonder if it needed a fireplace as well:Oh dear: I seem to have asked myself more questions than I answered today!Sunday, May 05, 2024
A knitting emergency, with cake
(Alas only miniature)
"Oh" she said "I hurt my hands and I've been told to keep them warm. But I hate these".
It just so happened that I'd stopped off at Lincraft on the way to club to buy some nicely-discounted machine-washable wool to knit some lounge socks for Mum, so pulled out my purchases and asked if she liked any of the colours, as I'd decided she needed some nice hand-knitted wristwarmers instead.
She picked the variegated, so I cast on last night when I got home (choosing a suitable stitch marker, of course!), and finished them off just after lunch this afternoon.
She lives in the next suburb over but has headed up to Sydney today on a day trip to visit the Sydney miniatures and dolls house fair, so I dropped them into her mail box for her to find when she gets home.
And that, dear reader, is why there were no minis happening around here today.
Saturday, May 04, 2024
In a tangle
Today was mini club. And the workshop was a macrame plant hanger.
'How hard can it be?', I thought.
Much harder than I imagined it would seem, even for someone who remembers the 70s and Golden Hands magazine.
It all seemed easy enough: although I was confronted by the fact that the smaller-scale version only came in red.Then I was faced with a yarn octopus...
some knotty problems,
Friday, May 03, 2024
Decision made
Thursday, May 02, 2024
The universe has spoken, and progress has been made
Wednesday, May 01, 2024
May be minis (again)
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
Daiso (and other) delights
AWOL again, but this time there were minis involved.
I headed back to New Zealand for my regular visit, and trip to Daiso: but this time I didn't have to buy minis there (although I did) because Daiso Wellington had posted some photos of their new minis on social media a couple of months ago and I'd panicked that they'd all be gone by the time I got there and sent a local (and lovely) friend on a quest to buy what I was after.
And here's my haul:The bed intrigued me, and I imagine it spray painted in lovely colours, with proper bedding:And I was excited to see that they had the Eames chairs in a new-to-me colour:Speaking of chairs, the folding chair kits look suspiciously familiar (but much less expensive).And that was about it for minis on this trip, although I did buy some extras for swaps, and also tried to visit a local miniature shop on the way to the airport, but they were on holiday themselves.Saturday, March 30, 2024
My heart is singing, but my budget is reeling (sorry: it's not a dolls' house!)
I've been a bit AWOL for the past couple of weeks, because my mind has been focused on things not-mini (alas).
One of those things was the idea of upgrading my current scoot.
When I test-rode one option last month and discounted it as a possibility, Nico (the owner of our local, and fabulous scooter shop), said to visit in a month because he had another one he thought I might like that he needed some time to get ready for sale.
So I popped in to visit Thursday after work, only to be told to come back today.
Which I did.
Silly me.
Because there was Mickey. A lovely 2002 Vespa PX200 (75cc more power than Jasper has).Monday, March 18, 2024
Feeling like I'm at a crossroads
R Jones commented on my last post, which included an update to the dark academia trial scene with the addition of the writing desk, some moving of things around, and the addition of more books, saying that they thought it looked fantastic, to which I replied that I thought it was veering into 'crazy old professor' a bit far but a) isn't that what dark academia is based on and b) does it matter if it does?
Which gave me pause for thought.
The lovely thing about creating scenes, not the more-static dolls' house room, in the ability to (as is common to say these days, and which grates on my nerves every time I hear it: so you've been warned to jump to the next paragraph if you feel similar) pivot very easily.
Because yesterday's additions and rearrangement
is unexpectedly heading in a new and interesting direction to my initial intentionSunday, March 17, 2024
A seriously slothful Sunday slowly sorting things out
After the last couple of days I need to pull the drawbridge up and recover, but decided that can include putting away the treasures I collected yesterday, and pulling the dark academia scene back to the centre of the work table (and my mind). All in my pyjamas.
Here're the treasure I bought yesterday to add to my collection:
First up, I went back for the other pieces of furniture to match the writing desk I bought on Friday night: I don't have any plans for them, but felt bad splitting them up:
and while I was at the stall, picked up a cheap bag of furniture because I spied some tiny drawers in it (I obviously still have a thing for tiny drawers)and when I got home realised they were part of a victorian dresser set and I'd just seen them upside down while the mirror piece was hiding.The last thing I picked up from that particular stall was a sheet of stupidly-cheap wall tiles: