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p spending an afternoon at our local hospital s emergency room as they got me stabilized with an iv for hydration and courses of iv antibiotics for my throat and cortisone to help my lung function i was then back home and continued the paxlovid cortisone and antibiotics until they were done but it continued to be a serious struggle i really do think that if it had not been for my vaccinations over the last year and the medications i received during the course of the infection i do not think i would have made it and i mean that quite seriously please please take the warnings seriously your life or the life of someone you love may depend on it okay with that lecture done i move on to something i did do this week while sorting laundry downstairs on the weekend my eye was caught by a small framed mixed media picture leaning on shelf in our family room it has a small ceramic black cat leaning over a glass of guinness ale with a caption above that says guinness feline good it brought a smile to my face followed quickly by the realization that it was now march and i hadn t decorated at all for st patrick s day i quickly dragged out my outdoor st patrick s wreath and our irish flag and bruce hung them up outside our front door back inside i starting looking for something i could use for the centre of my dining room table when my eyes fell onto a set of 4 nesting shadow boxes on my craft shelf i bought them years ago thinking i could make small mini vignettes in them and hang them on a wall however by taking the three largest ones and two small wooden candlesticks i had also purchased a long time ago just in case and gluing them all together i now had a three tiered tray to work with then i went looking for things to place in them combining everything together and setting it on a lovely shamrock table runner my sister had made for me several years ago this is what i ended up with all in all i am happy with how it turned out just by using stuff i found in various places in my home now i m thinking of how i will change it out for easter although i am still recovering from the aftermath of my covid infection i am going to try to do some minis this week and will hopefully get back into a regular work routine moving forward until the next time happy st patrick s day to all ttfn marilyn posted by marilyn d at 14 54 12 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels holiday decorating saturday 1 october 2022 just a quick catch up i haven t gotten a lot done in these last two weeks but thought i should drop in to let you all know where i m at first when thinking about my birdcage room box or my forest retreat as i prefer to call it i always pictured it with a table off to one side with a mirror above it but wasn t sure what kind of mirror i wanted so i headed down to my craft room yes of course i dropped some bread crumbs so i could make my way back out again and looked through my stash there i found a box of frames i had purchased from michael s a few years ago they had a whole bin of these frame sets there are 4 frames in each little package 2 small round ones one small square one and one very decorative one they came in four different colours and the decorative frame was different in each of the four colours they were on sale for 1 25 a package i bought lots of packages so i chose two different frames followed the bread crumbs out of the room and headed back upstairs to see which frame i liked better whichever i choose will be painted anyway so the colour it is right now doesn t really matter first i tried this pretty green rectangular frame although i really do like it i took a look at my other choice it has an arched top to it and of course there are several arches in the bird cage itself so this seemed like a no brainer for my mirror choice this will be painted before i cut the mirror out to insert this choice made i set it aside installed my steps and started adding the rocks to the base of my little retreat from there i turned my attention back to my fireplace and chimney i dirtied up the inside of the firebox and after taking another look at the tiles i installed earlier decided that the location of the mantel was going to be much too low so i added four more rows of tile in a decorative pattern and installed the rocks over the whole thing then i installed some logs and a set of flickering fireplace lights behind the logs before putting it in place i used some hot glue to build up the area that will be the flames in the next stage i will use some alcohol inks to colour the glue areas to look more like flame colour here is the fireplace with the expanded tile area and with the lights turned on in the upcoming two weeks i will be painting all of the rocks first with an all over coat of a light colour then adding a few other colours to bring out the rock look then i will attach it to the cage and add the mantle piece i hope i will also have time to make a light fixture i have in mind and perhaps a few of the smaller decorative items before my final couple of weeks will be spent on the pièce de la résistance for which i am hoping i can do justice i know this is not a lot of progress but i am hopeful i can do better before my next post wish me luck have fun mini ing ttfn marilyn posted by marilyn d at 20 51 11 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels birdcage room wednesday 14 september 2022 rockin my first idea in my last post i left off with pictures of the beginning of the floor for my bird cage project i continued laying the floor in the pattern i had decided on then left it for a couple of days to make sure it was well dried once i was sure it was ready i sprayed a few coats of sealer on the bricks to make sure they wouldn t dissolve during the grouting process then i used ordinary drywall spackle to grout waited for just a few minutes then used barely damp paper towel to wipe off the excess spackle before it set on the bricks i put a piece of waxed paper on top and weighted the floor down with a set of heavy books overnight to make sure it didn t warp while it dried the next morning i used a brush and liquid polyurethane to put a final coat on and let that dry for the day then weighted it down overnight again i m happy with how it turned out now after i re introduced my birdcage project in my last post i hinted in my response to sherrill s comment that i had a couple of surprise ideas for the project that i would be revealing after i figured out if they would work or not to be perfectly honest with you i wasn t really sure what the surprises would be but knew i d figure something out the first one had to do with the arched opening at the back of the room i had a few of ideas but wasn t sure which way i was going to go with it at first i thought i could install an arched mirror to reflect a tabletop display in front of it then i thought instead of a mirror i should install an ornate piece of metalwork to fit the opening that one held some promise for a little bit then i thought about a nice stained glass window yes that would be lovely and with that i went to bed for the night of course as always happens i kept thinking about it as i lay in bed and came up with a fourth and final option my little hideaway absolutely had to have a fireplace winner winner chicken dinner the next day i started the build on the fireplace the first thing i did was to make a form for the actual firebox leaving an open space at the bottom which will eventually hold the battery pack for the flickering fire then i began to lay the bricks to line the inside of the firebox with that done i built the form for the chimney and attached it to the firebox i tried it in place against the birdcage and was satisfied with the proportions i then took some rough looking fibre packing material i had kept from an old purchase of some electronic equipment real life and ripped it into many small pieces to be used to rock the chimney and fireplace as well as the raised wall and steps leading into my little sanctuary i started by installing bricks around the top edge of the chimney then gluing the rocks in place these will later be painted sealed grouted and sealed again yes i was watching the blue jays ball game as i did this as i moved down the chimney and was getting closer to the actual firebox it occurred to me that i should have thought about a nice tiled fireplace surround to break up the stone look what could i use for tile well i did what i usually do when faced with such a question i slept on it sure enough after only a short time lying in bed awake it came to me my dd dear daughter shauna has a new favourite hobby called diamond painting if you are not familiar with it diamond painting is a fairly new craft hobby that s a mix between paint by numbers and cross stitch with diamond painting you apply thousands of tiny resin diamonds to a coded adhesive canvas to create shimmering diamond art images my dd has lots and lots of these tiny little resin pieces in all sorts of colours they are basically available in the same colours as you could find in dmc floss so the next morning i called her and asked if i could steal some from her she brought her supply over and we picked out colours that would match well with the fabric i chose for the cushions for the chair and footstool i used colour number 3756 for the white 3841 for the light blue and 930 for the dark blue the following pictures show the progression as i installed all these tiny tiles i think the size was perfect and i really like how it turned out here is the fabric i used for the cushions i ve temporarily set the fireplace in its spot so you can see the chair and footstool against the tiled fireplace surround not a bad match i think with that done i turned my attention back to installing the rocks it is certainly a tedious job but i think it will be well worth it in the end fingers crossed i can only go so far with the rocks on the chimney because i am waiting for the working fireplace lights i ordered recently when i have done as much as i can here i will then start installing the rocks around the raised base of my birdcage room so that s as much as i have to show you this week i will post again in two weeks time and will hopefully have made a lot more progress to report i hope you enjoy the pictures of what i have done so far until the next time enjoy the good weather we have left and keep on mini ing ttfn marilyn posted by marilyn d at 17 29 16 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels birdcage room wednesday 31 august 2022 everyone needs a hideaway last month after finishing the horse stable book nook for my sister in law i turned my thoughts to my next project what should i work on should it be one of my unfinished projects one of the hundreds of ideas i have floating around in this busy brain of mine should i search for new inspiration in the end i decided to get to work on a project that actually incorporates all three of these some of you may remember that a few years ago i had posted a picture of a small project that i found really inspired me i decided on a container for the project and took a few small steps to get started since making that very basic start i set it aside and moved on to other projects however since it actually incorporates the concept of an unfinished project one that i found when searching for inspiration and one that incorporates new ideas i have had floating in my mind for the last few years it s perfect a quick review to remind you of the project from a few years ago begins with the picture which inspired me i know many of you have seen this lovely piece online and i am sure admire it as much as i do it is so beautiful in its simplicity louise did a search for me and on pinterest believes she found the name of the miniaturist behind this wonderful little project natalia volchkova if this is not the right person please let me know as i am a firm believer if giving credit where credit is due i know you ve also seen the picture below before when i first thought about doing a project inspired by the above picture this is an old ratty dirty bird cage i used to use years ago in my outdoor garden decorating it has sat in the garage for years gathering dust and grime the wicker in the bottom edge of the cage and dried and broken and was also looking very sad so i removed the wicker took a metal brush to it to clean off the dirt and dust and took another look at it from every angle having removed the original arched door to the cage i then decided the opening would look better at the back of the project and bruce removed several of the vertical bars from what had been the back of the cage making it the new front with a nice wide opening i removed the ugly clasps that held the top to the bottom of the cage and painted it a very pale blue i really love the softness of this colour it works perfectly for the scene i have in my head i decided i would raise the floor so i can hide a battery pack underneath and that i would have a brick floor inside and would fill in the space where the ugly wicker used to be with a stone look finish here i have cut a piece of mat board to fit the inside and have started to dry fit the bricks then i drew some straight lines across the floor to make sure i could stay in line as i went and i started to glue them down when all the bricks were laid they were sprayed with a sealer and left to dry before i applied grout to them i will show you the finished floor in my next post in the meantime i had decided i would make a wicker chair and footstool for inside this little hideaway well i actually thought i would make a wicker chaise longue but marijke louise and even my dd shauna said a chair and footstool would be better so i reluctantly gave in happily changed direction here is how they look before i made the cushions for them so now i am off to grout the floor and begin the tedious job of making stones for the outside in the next post i hope to be much further along until then big hugs to all of you out there i so enjoy reading about the wonderful things you have been doing in your own blogs minis go deo minis forever in irish smile ttfn marilyn posted by marilyn d at 15 36 15 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels birdcage room older posts home subscribe to posts atom translate about me marilyn d i have been a long time crafter interested in many different media but have had a yearning to work in miniatures for many decades as a result i have collected various items over time without having any use for them but i have decided that now is the time i will chronicle my experiences here and hope that others can learn along the way with me i am a retired civil servant my dh and i will celebrate our 50th wedding anniversary in august 2021 we have two grown children one in nb the other in nl and...