Setting The Table.....

I Promised you Plates....

It was quite some Time ago, Dear Readers, that a dear blogfriend sent me a selection of beautiful ornamental ribbons and trims as one of the wonderful "giveaways" on her blog, and here you can see some of them packed into an old wooden trunk where they are still awaiting special projects. While she has not been blogging for a while now, her Treasures are still giving me joy! And last week when I rashly suggested I could make some teeny tiny plates for the Teeny tiny dining room, it was because I had remembered these trims! How could they Possibly make me plates, I hear you ask? Well, if you look closely you will see that several of those trims are made of little sequins!

Just how little the sequins are was the only question in my mind....

And if I carefully painted one..... 

would it be the right size to serve as a plate?

See the painted one on the right?

(Do remember to poke the pictures to see them larger!)

Can you see I have painted one to resemble china?

I was happy to see it looks about the right size!

So I quickly made five more....

Well, perhaps not quickly..... 

because the method requires several coats of paint.....

which must dry between coats.

Above you can see the white blobs of paint on the plastic, 

and each one covers a single sequin.

The surface tension of the wet paint covers the hole in the sequin 

and when the layers have dried thoroughly, 

you carefully pull the "plate" off the plastic.

Here I have added the decorative details before pulling them from the plastic. 

(It is much easier to paint them when they are stuck to the plastic!)

Here they are removed from the plastic and with their edges carefully cleaned up....

And Ta-da!!! The plates on the table!

But maybe we want to see how they look with chairs too....

Oh, and did I mention a basket of rolls....?

Can you see it there in the front? 

I know it is a little blurry... 

it is so hard to convince the camera to focus on the tiny things!

How about on the table.... can you see it there?

(This is made from a blob of glue that was dried onto a toothpick, 

painted to resemble a basket with a linen cloth 

and then tiny orange no-hole beads glued on top! 

Sorry I forgot to take pictures of the progress!)

 

And then I realized, Dear Readers, 

that if we were going to have plates and a basket of rolls.... 

we would need to set the table properly with glasses and utensils too!

(Who had thought that far ahead???)

So I pawed through my beads to see if I could find any 

small enough to pass for glasses....

I found some tiny milky white ones.....

which needed to be tested on the table....

Can you even see them there? 

I am less than impressed.

These are not what I wanted at all!

And then I remembered something Dear Readers, 

that I clearly had been saving for just this sort of occasion.....

In one of my little boxes somewhere.....

Aha!

Do you see what I see?

Here.... look closer.... 

Do you see wine glasses?

(This is a piece of plastic used to attach price tags 

to clothing in the department stores!)

Carefully cut apart.... 

with a dab of "The glue trick" to make the foot....

I was giddy with excitement!

And can we see them on the table?

Ooohh, I think they are Perfect!

And can we see the table in the dining room....?

Wowee, I do love those wine glasses! 

But now we are faced with the challenge of silverware.....

Tiny knives are not so hard......

Snipped from an aluminum foil baking pan.....

 

Here you can see it in better light......! 

But the Forks.... arggghh... 

the forks are not so easy....

The first couple were much too big.... 

here you can see me testing them.....

So I persevered in trying to make them smaller....

The operative word being "tried" .... 

with marginal success.

The forks still look too large.....!

(waayy too large!)

But perhaps we should see if it is even noticeable when in the dining room?

Especially when all the other furniture is in place,

 and the chairs block part of the view....

Are they small enough...?

(Yes, I know... you are saying "what forks"?)

 

Well, Dear Readers, 

I think you will need a magnifying glass 

to even see them with all the other pieces to look at....!

Especially those wine glasses... I Love those wine glasses!

I might have promised you plates and a basket of rolls....

But I ended up having to set the whole table!

(And we won't mention the hound unless I succeed.....)