Monday: make, do and mend

It's been a very long time since I made a miniature, and even longer since I made a miniature for me.

So it is was with some trepidation that I approached the task yesterday, in a new studio, and with my workshop work-space not just down the stairs, but out the door, down the stairs, across the carpark and through the garage.

Which I suspected might mean a couple of quests down there to collect things that I needed up here: and in the long-term possibly collecting doubles of things to prevent that from happening.

I decided to start with a paper kit sent to me in a box of deliciousness that arrived just as I settled on my first home and so got pushed aside in the craziness that followed.

(Thanks again Kat! I look forward to finally having the time and space to explore the possibilities!)

A Chinese carry out kit from PaperMinis sounded like just the thing to blow the rust off, and also to find the basic tools I needed to get back in the saddle.

And, because I'm all about unrealistic expectations, I added a wine bottle kit given to me by friend Sandra around the same time. Because if you've not made miniatures for almost two years, why not double the fun? (*cough cough*).

I started with the easy wins (Yay! I made a receipt! And some placemats!) and realised I seem to own a LOT of cutting knives, and also may need to do a glue stocktake very soon and chuck what's dried up...

Meanwhile in the grog aisle I discovered my new best friend: a drying set up I bodged together with an old shoe box, and Daiso chopsticks and pegs, when I decided that the necks of my wine bottles needed painting to look more authentic:

And so finally, in the spirt of 'done not perfect' (especially as it's only now that I notice that I put the wine label on upside down...), may I present First night in the new home.

Which is actually kind of fitting as tomorrow in my first homeversary....

(And in case you're wondering, takeout containers aren't usually printed where I live, so I made mine inside out).