Moonlight And Maidens

Just a Little Bit of Light....

A Glimmer of Light in the Darkness, Dear Readers, is all I have to show you this week. Real Life is full of Holiday Schedules and obligations, making Time for Minis more scarce than usual. But I did manage to work on the "stained glass" windows for the upstairs hallway in the Willowcrest. I used the same method I had tried with the smaller window in the stairwell, and for lack of a better method, I will probably use it on many of the windows in this house! This method is to use the "lead lines" paint that is meant for painting glass to resemble stained glass, but in this case it is used on the plastic windows I am making to replace the ones provided by the kit. Because it is plastic, I cannot bake it, and thus I decided to use nail polish for the colors, rather than the glass paint. Above, you can see I have designed the windows to continue the Moon Maiden theme that began in the lower hall and marched up the stairs. These Maidens represent the full of the moon..... it is hard to tell which is the "fullest", and I will probably adjust one of the moons to have a slight dark shadow as it begins to wane.

Here you can see I have started to add the color.... 

I even went shopping for a few new colors.....

One of which is this brilliant blue!

And then a paler blue for the gown......

and a pink for the flesh tones....

(It is hard to see these colors here...)

And a glimmering Gold for the hair on the Maiden on the left....

And here you can see them with the light from behind....

I know, it fades the colors almost to nothing.....

And the Moons have been painted with a pale yellow, too.

And now, we just want to see how they will look in place in the hallway....

But there is So Little light at this time of year!

You can barely see them at all in my Dark house!

But I found an ingenious LED Light at Joanne's Fabrics....

These are LED battery "tea lights" 

that turn on with a twist....

and are waterproof!

I am not certain I will be using this permanently, 

as I need to have access to turn it on and off...

But it is very handy for testing.....

I suspended it with a wire over the hallway.....

where the Moon Maiden Window is temporarily taped in place...

Just so we can get a Glimmer of an idea how this will look....

from inside the hallway....

(the Maiden on the right is mostly unpainted so she is barely visible)

And from the outside.... with the light on inside.

And slightly further away... the outside view.

But then I realized that I wanted the Moon Maidens 

to all have slightly different coloring...

So I went back for More nail polish!

And painted the remaining Maiden in Pearly white

With Scintillating Silver for her hair!

With the light shining through, it is still difficult to tell the colors....

I might consider adding a layer.....

But first we need to test them in place again...

The view from the inside....

And from the outside too.

 

Alas, it is so Dark, Dear Readers,

we can barely see them.....

Where is that Moon Light?

 Of course, the polish is rather reflective....

But the Moon light sure makes a difference!

Inside....

And outside!

Well, Dear Readers, it doesn't seem like I did much,

Except shed a little Glimmer of Light

On the Moon Maidens.