Little Details....

 

Small Matters....

As I might have mentioned, Dear Readers, I am trying to get the Tall "Cabinet of the Clouds" in the Fairy-tale Wonderhouse Kit all completed and glued in place. This is because it forms the battery box for the light system and until it is glued firmly to the back wall, the entire wiring system is a bit dangly and loose and the Shop is hard to move around. Once I get all the little creations for this cabinet finished and glued in place, then I can glue the cabinet to the wall and then the remaining creations can be finished in whatever order I feel like! (And I will be able to move it to a different location for working on which will allow me more freedom with my workspace options.) Sound familiar? Too many things in progress at once...??? Well, we know how that goes in my house! So for now I am concentrating on the Cabinet of the Clouds.... and in this case I wanted to complete the Top shelf area... that hard to see, hard to reach spot that collects.... what??? (What do you find lurking on your top shelves...?) The kit places several landscape features on that shelf... so I started there... and as you know, I had added that "rim" to the shelf... the "cloud-like" lacy edging...  which makes the space feel to me like an Alpine Meadow in the summer..... way high up above the clouds.....

 

The first thing I did was find a few little "bottlebrush" trees... 

the kind they sell for Christmas decor... 

but I wanted summertime so I painted over the

 white fake snow with a fresh emerald green.

 Perhaps it is just a suggestion of the Enchanted Forest

 up there in the corner of the top shelf? 

The kit also has the Store signage glued in place up there... 

hard to see but suggestive of the great outdoors...

 so I left it alone. 

I completed the tiny Mouse-house Tree-house....

(there on the far right at the edge of the meadow....)

 

Along with the kit wooden tree shape cut-outs..... 

Can you see the little mouse in his hammock

 inside the Tree Trunk...? 

The printed details on all the pieces

 of this kit are so amazingly detailed!!!

 

And since I was trying to finish

 all the tiny vignettes for this Cabinet, 

I started on the little lavender cabinet...

 

It is very tiny! But it needed the paper backing glued on....

 

Which you can only see if I use the flash...! 

And then the shelves needed all the little bits added.... 

ribbons and beads and tiny foam balls....

 

Like so! 

So So Tiny...!

 

 

And there is a Teensy Tiny wooden chair 

that needs to be glued together... 

and left unfinished....(I was tempted to paint it...)

 but it needs to be a for sale to finish yourself piece of furniture... 

sitting on a box...

 

 

Which I forgot to take a picture of... 

but you can spot it back there in the cabinet

 next to the lavender cabinet....

 there beside the Fairy Market....!

And speaking of the Fairy Market... 

I knew it needed just a couple more tiny details...

 

 Specifically... 

some Wishing Stars needed to be scattered around... 

because you never know when you might need one....!

And lastly but not least... 

 

it needed some blades of grass...

because whoever heard of a meadow with no grass....????

Yes, I know it is rather sparse.....

 

 

But the Fairies chose their spot in an area 

where the grass was not growing too thickly.... 

and the moss and dandelions had plenty of room too! 

So I will leave it there...

because now we are gluing all this magical beauty into the shelf....

And moving on to the next Tiny Wonder....

 

Another piece of decorated furniture... 

a tiny green console cabinet....With a brass lamp... 

(made from a brass nail glued to a stud earring back-piece)

 

With a picture frame with a teensy tiny picture

 you have to glue in place... 

(it is a teddy bear portrait... in case you can't tell!)

 

Here it is glued to the top of the cabinet!

 

And here it is glued to the top of it's own box for display. 

And this is how the kit leaves it Dear Readers, 

but as often happens, I thought it could use

 just a couple more details...!

 

For starters, I thought a colorful little cloth 

would provide a nice accent.... 

(In case you hadn't noticed, the box reads

 "Keep Calm and Make Miniatures" on it...!)

 

And then maybe... a colorful Christmas themed plate...?

 And a colorful green striped pine scented candle...?

 

And a bit of newspaper or magazine 

folded into one of the cubbies below....

 

And then, maybe somebody left their cell phone

 there on the end, by the picture.... 

can you see it...???

 

How about now.... can you see it now...?

 (this is so difficult to photograph...!!!)

 

And meanwhile, those with Eagle eyes, 

will have noted that I have been working on

 more than one thing as I go.... 

and you can see that the "Cookie House" 

(we call them Gingerbread Houses in my family)

 has been expanded way past the

 original flat surface lithographed image!

 

I made it into a three dimensional "cottage"...

 with a chimney and a base for landscaping. 

(The kit wanted me to set it in a grassy lawn... 

I just didn't think that was right.... we make these at Christmas!)

 And I wanted to have "cookie cutter"

 trees (or tree) for the landscape.... 

so I made one from cardboard 

painted to look like a frosted cookie tree. 

 

The kit has small "cupcakes" that you cut from a polymer cone

 (used for several little kit items)

 and set in front of the house. 

I am testing the positions above.... 

before adding the "icing snow"....

 

Here I am testing the tree position... 

(more trees have no room...!)

 

And finally the icing... first on the roof....

 

Then the landscape.....

 

 With the cupcake "shrubs" and the tree.... 

now adorned with some snow..... 

and I decided that more details were pointless

 given that the space on the shelf was not terribly visible

 once all the rest of the kits are completed 

and positioned on the table in front of it.....!

 

Here it is tucked into it's position,

 on a soft white "blanket" of snow... 

with several "bottle-brush" trees next to it... 

also for sale!

 

And somewhere along the way when I wasn't looking...

 

Pegasus flew down for a romp in the Alpine Meadow....!

 

Well, Dear Readers, I don't know about you, 

but I just can't resist those Little Details... 

because especially in this scale, Small Matters!