Back in the studio

I figured two weeks was enough time to recover from my latest Daily Dolls' House December challenge and so I scheduled myself back into the studio this afternoon.

My plan was to start back with something simple to warm up: a shelfie, perhaps. And since setting some parameters worked so well last time, I added the following:

1. The colour scheme should work with the colours that have been predominant on my Instagram feed this week (which is a rather hilarious parameter, but why not?):

2. Use at least one item gifted to me by a blog buddy.

I started with an artwork sent to me by Kitty and Kat Miniatures back in 2016, which was the right colour and also picked up the leaf theme that's been happening on my Instagram feed (doesn't everybody take 'back to work' photos of their pot plants at the beginning of the work year?!)

To that I added pieces from Mod Pod Miniatures, Catherine and my friend Hannah.

And then got a bit stuck.

 A Lori credenza and an Eames chair recently picked up cheaply off eBay got me thinking this would turn into yet another office.

But I wasn't feeling the love.

Until I reached down to check out my flooring drawer for options and had to move my Lori ballet studio (last seen three months ago) before I could open it.

It was the answer I needed to turn what I thought was going to be a simple shelfie into a whole scene (I love tricking myself like that).

I added pretty much all of the pot plants I made last month. Another of the 'grass' rugs I bought at Daiso for $2.80 last visit. A black sofa I bought for $5 back in 2015, and the iron screens I picked up at Pete's Emporium (and obviously only photographed for Instagram) last year.

The only thing left to do was decide what it was. (I was reminded of this scene as I tried to work out what I'd built).

In the end I decided it was a client-facing area in a trendy plant hire company (called 'Leaf it to us'), based either in Los Angeles or in Cape Town (I blame Skinny la Minx for that latest thought...)