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body the way i normally do when making half scale clothing this caused some difficulty until i inserted one of my dressmaker s forms into the sweatshirt body thus opening up the armhole and making gluing much easier however by the time i thought to do that i had made kind of a mess of the sleeves i didn t even bother taking a picture now having a decent plan for how i would make the sweatshirt i tried working on the logo i have printable transfers for both light and dark fabric first i tried the dark fabric transfers on the royal blue fabric when i used the sunken treasure logo whether blue on white or white on blue it became pretty well indecipherable once i ironed it on i decided to try the bookstore logo as i figured that might be easier to see read you can see the dark fabric transfers on the dark blue fabric one ironed for a shorter period of time and the light blue fabric finally i tried the light fabric transfer with the bookstore logo on the light blue fabric that was my favorite since the light blue fabric felt more like a sweatshirt anyway i decided to go with that even though it meant my grosgrain ribbon didn t match the sweatshirt would just have to have contrasting ribbing i thought the sweatshirt with the light blue fabric and the altered sleeve design was not too bad so i finished up the bottom ribbing and hood and put it in the display window the hood cord is some dark blue flower thread i had on hand it s displayed on a form in the right hand window the beach ball is a painted wooden bead you ve seen the little octopus and fish before and the pail is just printed paper the little shovel though is my favorite i was trying to think of how to make one when i remembered i d purchased an ho scale coal stove set when i was making the sagamore hill library i needed a tiny coal hod to paint copper and put on the mantel to represent the miniature copper coal hod roosevelt received in gratitude for his intervention in the coal miners strike settlement of 1902 i put the remaining pieces of the set in my stash and it turns out the ho scale coal shovel made a perfect half scale sand shovel some bright yellow paint and it was added to my window display next it was on to the museum side of sunken treasure the display counter is made from some cherry wood with a mahogany stain and shellac finish the stencil was cut from vinyl with my cameo silhouette and was based on a simplified version of the sunken treasure logo the ships on top are a couple of soft metal ships from the virtualdollhouse a couple of charms from a bracelet that used to belong to my mother and a charm off a very cheap san francisco charm bracelet i have all were primed with white spray paint then painted it s very hard to find model ships in half scale but i thought these gave me a decent representation of ships boats from different eras and areas of the world each ship has a small printed description backed with some gold foil the foil is supposed to be self adhesive but it s not adhering very well that will need to be fixed for the wall i had the diving helmet i had already made an anchor and sextant i purchased from the virtualdollhouse as well as a model ship s wheel that is really a charm i knew i also wanted a display of nautical knots using my jeweler s draw plate i pared down a dowel to get pieces of wood small enough to use in the display using a small dowel or even a toothpick would have been the half scale equivalent of using a chair leg then i experimented with rope size 10 crochet cotton was a bit too thick i liked coats clark s size 20 crochet cotton but it is only available in white or natural unfortunately dmc s size 20 crochet cotton was just a bit thinner and i didn t like it as much i tried my white thread with some coats clark light blue that had lost its label it was likely size 10 because it is too thick for my white i then tried some dmc size 8 perle cotton it wasn t bad but the only colors i had on hand were green black natural and brown and they didn t look very nautical to me i finally ended up using some india ink markers to dye a length of my size 20 cotton a nice royal blue using my know your knots book as well as some rope tying tutorials i found online i made a variety of knots a few of them also required tweezers a tapestry needle and some magic words to complete i did my best to show the interweaving of the rope but i realize some are a little difficult to see rest assured however that they are properly tied i painted some card stock gray for the background and made a frame from some mahogany stained cherry wood and a bit of gold thread then added tiny labels to round out my wall i added some maps and a nice cut away picture of a whaler as well as making a life preserver from some card stock red electrical tape and crochet cotton on the shop side i made a glass display case from mahogany stained cherry wood and some clear acrylic in it i have a shell collection that is a painted metal mini a painted metal mermaid jewelry made from extra tiny sea glass from timber ridge studios a model diving helmet actually the ¼ scale diver s helmet from stewart dollhouse creations my seagull and shell display on driftwood and some mugs i need more of those the cash register is 3 d printed from mini etchers unfortunately i can t provide a link right now because the store is under new ownership and she is just starting to relist items and of course i had to make a souvenir museum guide for 1 00 with some help from wikipedia the pages below are out of order but will be in order once i ve double sided printed cut and folded them behind the display counter i hung my cross stitched ship and lighthouse as well as some of the tiny paintings i ve purchased the display tables are made from left over half scale board and batten i have my various soft toy amigurumis some sea life coloring books and some know your knots kits on the table for children on the other table i have the folded t shirts and an extra under the sea purse at this point i don t think there s much more i can shoehorn into this place so it s on to the lighthouse lucky i have a wonderful new craft room and finally the time to work on it at may 13 2022 8 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest friday august 13 2021 one project ends another begins once again time got away from me only this time instead of being in a stagnant state where i could not seem to work on my miniatures i have been making minis like crazy there is so much to report on i hardly know where to begin first the deco house is finished it s not much different than when you last saw it except that i have added a little landscaping and some plants to the deck the house has now moved off my craft table and onto a bookshelf making way for a new project which is the lighthouse and keeper s cottage here they are in dry fit dry fit is so helpful for planning right away i noticed several things 1 the windows of the keeper s cottage are too narrow since the cottage will become a museum and gift shop it will need wider display windows 2 there is a lot of nice room in the first floor tearoom i had originally planned on two tables maybe i will be able to fit three 3 there is not a lot of wall space for bookshelves for the second floor bookstore originally i was going to have an office on the third floor but the bookstore may need to take up two floors i got started on the keeper s cottage and immediately widened the holes for the windows by about ¼ inch on either side this helps with the display space but doesn t interfere with the structural integrity of the front wall you can see the original window opening on the right and the widened window opening on the left that did mean i also had to make my own windows to replace the ones provided by real good toys but i was ok with that i got used to making windows for both sagamore hill and the deco house and then before i knew it the house was built that has to be some kind of record for me with the siding milled in and the floors already finished it really only took a weekend to put the structure together a nice change from the builds i ve been doing i will be using a battery operated light in the house as it is so small and not really worth the effort of plug in lighting the sign over the door was made from one of the original shutters which can no longer be used now that the windows have been widened i ve made display stands for in back of both windows they are removable so that i can pull the in and out to change the displays i m also working on a glass display case and a counter for displaying my ships and now for the real fun all the little items i have purchased or made for the new project more paintings have arrived and i really love them however i really wanted a traditional sailing ship and wasn t able to find anything in the size i wanted i am not a painter but i can cross stitch and was lucky enough to find a pattern that when stitched on 36 count fabric is a workable size while hunting for the ship pattern i also found a tiny lighthouse pattern so i made that up too all the goodies for the tearoom arrived don t they look yummy the tearoom table kits come with kits for little tiered stands i made them up and added my own scones finger sandwiches and dishes of jam and clotted cream i also made up a test table things are a bit tight on the tabletop but i think i can make it work also with that extra space i may be able to enlarge the tabletops the tables and chairs are designed to be painted silver with lavender backs and seats i m not sure that will work for a nautical tearoom but i can t decide whether to keep them that way or change them and if i change them what colors i would use instead the tables and chairs are made of card so staining is out white with blue would that be too expected and too boring i do have some nautical scrapbook paper that incorporates a lot of purple and the sign as i ve currently designed it is purple maybe i should keep the lavender but go with black or white paint what to do what to do for the bookstore i ve been making lots and lots of little books mostly children s books or cozy seaside mysteries to get in the mood i have been borrowing many of these mysteries from my local library via libby to read on my kindle borrowing is a great way to try them because well some of them written are better than others in the picture you can also see one of the bags i made for the bookstore which is called whale tales i do have plans for a lot more books which is why i think i ll need two floors of course i ll have to have classics like moby dick and twenty thousand leagues under the sea then there will be books on history and geography cookbooks books for older children magazines you get the idea for the museum more ships have been painted for the display i still haven t had any success building a ship in a bottle my first effort which involved making a mold of a bottle placing a teeny tiny little ship inside and filling it with resin was a resounding failure the bubbles never dissipated and part of the ship s mast ended up sticking out through one side of the bottle sigh still thinking about it though more successful was my attempt at a lightship basket which you may remember that my mother had suggested i made up the basket itself with instructions from one inch minis i made my own form from polymer clay the scrimshaw on the top is made from an oval of wood painted ivory and sanded as smooth as possible i then drew on the whale with an ultra fine point permanent marking pen and finished with a bit of satin varnish the frame for the scrimshaw was made by wrapping some of my painted crochet cotton around a piece of florist s wire i like that it made a rounded edge for the top of the basket the hinge is a snippet of 1 8 inch ribbon and the closure is a loop of the crochet cotton and a bit of florist s wire painted ivory effie was very happy to get to model it but sorry she couldn t keep it i also wanted a diving helmet i bought a q uarter scale 3 d printed one from stewart dollhouse creations thinking it might work as a scale model but i felt it was too small for the museum it is now a model sold that will be sold in the gift shop for the museum display i made a half scale version with a wooden bead some jump rings tin foil a microbead and a crimp bead with a little bronze paint and verdigris it s a pretty good facsimile other items for the gift shop include a little seashell arrangement with a tiny seagull made from polymer clay i also made a full size seagull for the lighthouse a mermaid statue and a fishing plaque both painted metal minis another amigurumi whale this time i was actually able to make the two colors work a beach ball some sea glass jewelry and some t shirts the printing on the t shirts isn t all that great and up close they look more like sweaters than t shirts but with a bit of distance i think they work fine the spousal unit has now said i need to make a hooded sweatshirt i borrowed one of the tables from the tearoom to display them but they ll have a table of their own at some point most recently i made up one of my garden hats with an extra row around the edge to give it a nice floppy brim and it is now a sun hat does the window display tempt you to enter my shop i am thinking the other window may have toys in it i ve actually made more since i started writing this but i think that s enough for now until next time which will i hope be sooner rather than later at august 13 2021 13 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday april 28 2021 almost done well i ve been back mini ing with a vengeance once i got the bathroom done things happened very quickly i got the roof ceiling cut out lightingbug lights installed and roof on i added the chimney and stacked circle detail that was already ready to go next it was time for the railing posts cut check holes drilled check washers spaced and glued down with jb quick weld check the railing itself was a bit of a problem wire generally comes coiled and despite my best efforts i can never straighten it out properly it always looks a little drunk so i bought some silver metallic elastic cord to use instead i think it works ok right now the ends are just taped to the back of the house in case i decide to change it but railing check then came the post caps and everything came to a screeching halt my prototype used some reflections brads from michaels i removed the legs and the tops formed the exact caps i wanted for the posts they came as part of a mixed set silver copper black and pewter naturally there weren t enough of the silver ones to complete the job no problem i thought i ll just buy more it s a lesson i should have learned long ago if you like something and know you ll want to keep using it use it in future buy more now which of course i hadn t done and now i can t find them anywhere i tried other br...