A Taste of Halloween....
Not Very long ago, Dear Readers, I bought a bunch of little kits from Robin Betterley Miniatures. Specifically, a whole bunch of her Teeny Weeny Secret Books. They are hollow "books" which pull out and have tiny scenes inside them. Many of them are based on a Holiday Theme, and as we are approaching the Halloween Season, indeed we could even be already In the Halloween Season, I decided to put together one of these tiny projects. You can see above the beginnings of construction. In theory it is very simple and straight forward to make. A box like a drawer slides into a "case" which has the book cover information applied. I only made a half dozen mistakes in the initial assembly. Clearly I wasn't paying attention to which side of what went with what side of whatever! Eventually, after some serious un-gluing and doing over, I got it right!
I painted it a burnt sienna color
and then applied the decorative printed papers.
First the cover art.
And then the interior art.
This angle shows the left hand side...
And then the right hand side.
Please ignore the lumber "scrap yard" in the back-ground!
The kit comes with all the little "twiddley bits" to make the interior scene...
including a cutout of a Witch's silhouette.
But I thought it needed something more....
So I added an old Crone....
And gave her glitter eyes...
Which do shine in the right light!
I might have gotten a bit carried away...
I wanted the cauldron to sit on glowing coals....
(More glitter in red and copper.... but so hard to photograph!)
And a crooked stick for stirring the Brew....
And smoke rising from the pot....
(My own additions.... not included in the kit.)
Can you see it in this picture?
Or here...?
The brew is green and overflowing
and has copper glitter mixed in too...
Here I am gluing the Crone in place.
The space is really very small...
so I had to carve off part of the Kit Witch...
I had to glue her to the back side...
(I am not sure she wants any part of this toxic brew!)
So I still had room for the pumpkins.....
I don't know why...
but I wanted one of them to still be on the vine...
I had to keep checking to see that it would fit inside the cover....
And see if we can see the glitter...
And with the pumpkins inside too....
It is full to the brim!
I have nothing more to add, Dear Readers,
Except to say that this is a Little Taste of Autumn....
And to wonder what you've got "cooking"?
