It Wasn't Quite Done...
You Might remember, Dear Readers, that the Secret Christmas House has icicles along the roof eaves. It is supposed to also have snow on the roof, but I have not finished that step yet! I gave it a great deal of thought and decided that I needed to try to make icicles for the roof of the Teeny Tiny Christmas House too. It just looked too unfinished to be placed inside a Bell Jar without any snow or ice! The method I chose to try is my favorite "glue trick"! This is where I rely on the solid bulk of the dried glue to be my "item" whatever that is at any given moment. In this case, it is tiny icicles. I ran a long thin line of Aleen's Quick Dry glue onto a plastic baggie and before it dried, I used the point of a sewing pin to drag the edges down into points, like icicles, and then I left it to dry thoroughly. You can sort of see the shape in the above picture... it is really difficult to photograph a clear item on a clear surface! The shadows are what give it away.
When the glue was completely dry I painted over it...
while still stuck to the plastic baggie,
using ordinary white acrylic paint.
Before the paint was completely dry,
I lifted the strip of icicles off the plastic baggie.
This was so the paint would not all stick to the icicles (the dried glue)
except where the glue had been.
(If you wait for the paint to dry, it would all lift with the icicles
and then they would not look much like icicles!)
Here you can see the painted strip of icicles and the Teeny House.
But before I attached the icicles,
there were a couple of other details missing.
Like the Chimneys...
And the Tiniest Dollhouse Imaginable to go inside under the Tree...
Can you see the house here....?
It is at the top of that scrap of cardboard...
Painted white with a gray roof...
You can just make out a couple of windows and maybe a door...
See it here on my thumb....?
It was extremely difficult to get it glued in place...!
It is a little tippy... but it is close enough!
Here the chimneys have been added....
(Don't tell me they are not the same size... )
And the front row of icicles on the eaves...
(I know they are a trifle big...)
Here I have added a little "snow" to the roof.
Clearly, it is a heavy wet snow!
(This was also surprisingly difficult to apply...
it didn't want to stick at first...
I applied it with that huge sewing pin...!)
Here it is standing on the table
while the snow on the "ground" is drying on the Bell Jar base.
Meanwhile, I wanted to see how the lights
in the Dollmaker's Studio looked with the curtains in place.
(It was a very gloomy rainy day...)
And I wanted to see how the furniture might look
now that the lights were in and the room was developing some character.
And maybe we could bring the Teeny Secret House in to see how it looks...
And then because I hadn't thought of it before...
I needed to try the Big Secret Christmas House in this room...
I was planning to have this house in the upper attic floor...
and a more "open" display cabinet in this room....
But I might have to change my plan!
I think it looks like this room was made for it!
There is room for the sides to be open without taking up the entire back wall
(where a couple of other things must go...)
And there is plenty of room for the table...
And room for Lady Cassandra.....
And her needlework....
Well, Dear Readers, I don't know about you,
But I love it when a room "Comes together"
in ways you hadn't imagined....
While just adding More details to
Things that weren't quite done!
