Miniature Dessert Table in 1:12

I have been quite busy :) My plan originally was to make some Christmas items, but you know how easily OH LOOK BIRDY

chocolate range

pink and red range

if i could pick only one to eat......

it'd be a tough decision......

i would start small....

fresh fruit.....

or glace cherries?.....

woud fresh cherries be better? but what about all that chocolate :O

adding fruit to it doesn't automatically make it 'healthy!'

pure. temptation.

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indulge here

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BJD, Blythe miniature food props, Aunt's birthday hydrangeas,

These are some of my ready-made works in 1:3 and my customer has beauuuuuutiful dolls, i have been crazy coveting them T-T some day, some day....

This is for a separate request, she originally wanted them for her Blythe, but will be making something else out of it so i made them in 1:3...thus the extra special effort (hurhur yea i'm lazy) with the props!

 they aren't fully dry yet, in such large scales it will take up to a week to dry fully before i can seal them (though i think the macarons are ready to be sealed)

closer look......

and just for fun (and for a catalogue) i've made these chocolate tartlets...again, waiting to be sealed (though it does look quite delish now, doesn't it???) that's a macdonald's charm/keychain, a little big for 1:3 but i thought the colours look nice with the tarts ^ ^



and back to 1:12 land :)

 macro test shots....i'm more familiar with the deep red/purple cherries, these were just some i finally got round to completing, they'd been rolling around on my table for a while now......

and my favourite, glace or maraschino cherries!!

so you can probably guess what sort of items will appear in my next post (they're waiting to be sealed too..)

 more WIP pics? yes, no?

made thinner, more detailed leaves.....still trying to grasp greens............

no, not deja vu! this is for my aunt, who is celebrating her birthday soon (either 11th or 13th, i always mix the two up cos my cousin Eddy's birthday is one or the other XD ) i'm happier with the leaves this time!

ok! time for lunch! :D

I'm a Giant challenge Day 7

Hola!~ well i'm a little late in posting my updates as a few requests came in over the weekend, and i didn't get much done for the challenge cos....*guiltily* i've been caught up in Triple Town :X fair warning, it's super addictive! heck i created 2 new G+ accts just so i could rotate between 4 (3G+ & fb) games when i run out of turns :S

the display counters are finally painted! i thought i would need to sand them, but judging from the pics, i think they'll do fine :)

uhrhur i should get myself a 1:24 doll, or attempt to make one (i like the latter better due to lack of funds :S ) sketched on a piece of acrylic cos i was too lazy to look for a spare piece of cardboard o.O

rummaging through my stash of found/recycled items, i found THIS!!! i don't even know what it was in its previous life, probably some makeup or nail thing....i wanted to use it for 1:12 but i think it will work here too!!

and this is the display counter, i think for 1:24 it turned out reasonably well :D exactly what i had in mind for once! *GASPS SHOCK SHOCK HORROR* XD

not glued in but it seems to hold up okay, just have to be careful not to drop it or pick it up by the acrylic...

just for fun, i put some items next to this awesome laser cut/etched sheet of 1:24 utensils that Asuka got for me!! HEART YOU MUCH!!! (to Asuka, and the mini cutlery ;P ) i adore it so much i don't have yet mustered up enough courage to work on them. that, and triple town really does screw up my space-time continuum......

*snort*

see the 4 'x' there? Asuka and i were staring intently at our sheets trying to figure it out...i suspect it's like, maybe the 'feet' for the toast rack??? can anyone enlighten us???

dangit i forgot to take photos of the maker, i think it's Karen's miniatures or something like that (left it at home)....will update this portion when i get home...brain feels wonky....

i am SUPER HAPPY cos i found out that there's this printing place near where i live, and it's been there for the longest time we just never bothered to check it out T-T am too excited!!! gonna search for some nice graphics and such since i'm short on time for finishing the foundation :( crap i just realised i don't have measurements LOL -_-"

moving along...

Half inch scale, Modern and LEGO mania

LONG POST AHEAD!!! there have been SOOOO many things i've been working on the past few weeks, but as usual, i get sidetracked....:P it might have been 2 weeks ago that i re-visited The Shopping Sherpa's blog, i remember one of the first few times I visited her blog might have been via a random video i viewed regarding miniature bookbinding....i always try my best to visit my fave blogs frequently, but you know how distracted i get :X i did not recall her having that many mini-related items back when i first chanced upon the blog, so her recent entries really left me gasping, OH HOW I COVET.

there was an awesome little cupboard that immediately caught my eye in one of her latest posts:
http://theshoppingsherpa.blogspot.com/2011/10/because-its-sometimes-quite-amazing.html

it's exactly the sort of thing i adore. i'm not sure why even, it's not entirely modern, it's not entirely sleek...it kind of reminds me of some cupboards we had at home when i was a kid i suppose. imagine the state of shock i went into when she replied to one of my comments that it was made entirely out of LEGO pieces?!?!?!

HELLO??? LEGO FAN OVER HERE?? YES? i used to collect a number of minifigs too!!! luckily my hoarding tendencies are held in check by the lack of funds, else you'd see life sized furniture made out of LEGO bricks (re: Douglas Coupland's Microserfs/Jpod; can't recall which featured the father character building office furniture).

so immediately after reading her reply, i not only downloaded and installed the LEGO Digital Designer (so i could figure out the names of the blocks used), i dragged bf down to a local LEGO toy store...alas, they don't carry the doors, nor the larger flat bricks :( i stood at the drawers going through all the little trays, pouting and hoping i wouldn't return empty handed.

i do feel a little embarrassed that this was the best i came up with, but i'm quite pleased with it! they'll be used in a 1:12 modern kitchen setting i'm making (it's been put on the backburner due to the i'm a giant challenge), i am loving the colours! i don't recall this lime green being available as a kid, then again i was always fixated on the yellow blocks :S don't you think they'd be cool with modern prints, or lettering (tea, coffee, sugar etc) on the side?!? i'm sure they're already a fixture in many mini modern homes, i just never really devoted much time surfing, so yea, i'm a mountain turtle (it's a common phrase used around these parts for an ignorant/not fashionable/not kept up-to-date/removed from society-type person. hey sounds like me!)

i'll take the Shopping Sherpa's advice and try and get me the pieces from BrickLink, chances are, i'll have to do that much much later *sigh* am feeling quite...broke....

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oh did i mention this will be a lengthy post? :P

 recently, a customer requested i make a special chicken sandwich for her Teenie Gem. ok, so i went all pouty again, cos i have been for the longest time staring at photos of Glot and Glati, which i know i'll never in this lifetime own. /supersadpatheticface

 that aside, it was interesting to note that teenie gems have rather large hands :O so this was made more as 1:4 than 1:6, which i'd always thought should be the case for YoSD sized dolls, since technically, they are 1:4 cos they're kids! ah...nevermind, there i go again  @ @

it's made out of polymer clay. i like its chubby appearance hurhur she sent me a reference photo for a tapioca bun she'd like for the bread, which was another interesting item to me....uh oh my mountain turtle tail is showing again.....*withdraws head into shell in shame*


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i took the opportunity to finally take pics of the 1:6 items i'd been meaning to list for the longest time -_-" They can be found on my Zibbet:

http://www.zibbet.com/Snowfern

although i've been concentrating on the smaller scales, i'm still making larger items, more due to novelty and cos....well, just cos. somehow, in my mind, batch work seems to be more efficient, but that's rather self-defeating since i get nothing much done when i confuse myself over the scales, the different materials and considerations each scale requires :S so it's a good thing that the challenge has shifted me to concentrate on 1:24 food items, since i've grown a little bored with 1:12. NOT!!! LOL no no i still LOVE working in 1:12, i just get a little frustrated sometimes and require a bit of distraction so i can refresh myself...heh


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so since i'd also told myself to get to work on christmas items, given how slowly i work, it was great that a request came in for my 1:24 macaron set in christmas colours? of course, i couldn't stop at one....

ionos about you, but after making and taking and editing these photos, everything looks the same to me XD i took special care to make each set a little different so i don't get too confused....

these were inspired by Paulette macarons, which were introduced to me by CH (HIIIIII!!!!!) when she requested i made some in 1:4......it didn't even occur to me to check their packaging but Asuka pointed out that my own packaging reminded her of it XD FERPECT I SAY!

to which, i want to say, i've come to terms with the whole copyright issue. as rightly pointed out by a few of my mini friends (YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE THANK YOU!) it's a totally different market, and though it doesn't mean i'll go around rampantly scanning and selling replicas of their packagings, i think i'll be comfortable knowing that i'm not 'ripping off' or 'profiting off' them. but that's another argument for another day *head goes giddy again*

these are also in 1:24, and i'm pretty happy with them! i surprised even myself, i know they're not super duper realistic, but it's really hard to squeeze in that much detail on a 4mm circle of clay! i had to re-take all of the photos cos i messed up all the photos (poor lighting) during my 2-3 hr photoshoot last night T-T  why, oh why do i insist on being a stubborn donkey when it comes to photography?? why can't i just be patient and wait for a nice sunny day to take pics, HUH HUH?? /bonks self onna head

so yea i made some larger croissants too, but uhhh i miscalculated (hurhur) and they turned out quite small...they're approx 1cm long, which makes for a medium-ish croissant? so i think they'll work well as 1:16 too! i think even the 1:24 version will work in 1:12, mini sized real foods seem to be very fashionable these days!

uhm. yea i got a few other things to clear, probably make a larger croissant now that i am happy with these shapes :) i think i have to work a little more on the coloration, but maybe soon, i will finally be satisfied with these so i can move on to....

......................maybe fish?

:P

k i hope i didn't confuse too many of you with the many different scales. my etsy store is more organized than this post, i promise! please go take a look :D

http://www.etsy.com/shop/snowfern

ttyl!

I'm a Giant challenge Day 6

i really should change the title of these to "week" instead of "day" :P I usually try to spend a little time every morning on a few elements so that things can 'come together' rather than linearly, since i have nothing planned :P

managed to settle on some walls. again, everything is made out of mounting board, have finally used the new mounting board i purchased. it's slightly thicker than the old one, which probably shrank after sitting there for about 2 years.....*blinks* so again, all my measurements are off by a little, which is alot, in 1:24.

probably should have put in the window first, but i thought i'd make the window frame + sliding window and just slot it in the hole, then patch up the loose spots with spackle or the like. that's how they do the real life stuff, right? *puzzled* but of course i'd stupidly neglected the fact that my windows are..well, cardstock-thin T-T

since the pieces are so darn thin, i went ahead and threw out all the planning and unnecessary anxiety out my head, stuck in the i -think- 1/16 basswood strips, as well as the styrene channel. can't remember thickness, all i recall is it's slightly wide for 1:24 but it's the thinnest one i could get. since the main part of the challenge (for me) was not to spend unnecessarily, i went with cardstock that i got from Daiso. i -think- the thickness is approx 0.5mm. probably shouldn't have skimped on this portion, i'm not sure how it'll work out after i put in the 'glass', which i haven't yet decided what i want on it. probably will use transparency film, since it's the thinnest and least flexible i have here, though i might have run out of it hrm.....:(

it's already gesso'd up, just like the displays....

they're waiting on a coat of titanium white paint while i decide on what my 'showpiece' furniture item will be. :S

this is the sanding block i bashed together, from what i gather off various life sized woodworking sites, it's a must have tool! so i looked around my room to see what i could use for my mini projects. i used an acrylic container (used to be for a carl craft punch!) and tore out a piece of 300 grit sandpaper (might be finer, i forget) to fit. tadah~! i've been using this for all my recent wood projects. it's not really uh 'accurate' but it works very well, and i can hold it comfortably. made me wish i'd thought of this sooner when i had to sand down some chopsticks aeons ago..-_-"

the food component of this project is coming along too :) I've made some 1:24 danishes, macarons, croissants....and since i've made quite a number of 1:24 canes before, it's finally time to put them to use, YAY!!!! i can't imagine caning them down specially for this project, not when the deadline is in 1.5 mth's time :O pics coming up in a later post :) i'm super glad the boxes i made seem to work rather well too with the displays i've made.

/abrupt end to post cos i suck at signing off