Craft room tour and update

Hey guys I'm back! Wow where to start?! So, basically, as I'm sure many of you have noticed, i haven't published a blog or a youtube video in a while. 12 months to be exact. 

I took a break from miniatures and blogging with pretty much no explanation on social media, which probably wasn't the best move. But, i promise i had good reasoning! I'm excited to be back doing what i love which is creating.

Why i took a break

Taking a break wasn't something that i had planned on doing. I fell fairly ill and I'm (finally) mostly recovered. Right in the middle of my illness, both my parents also had life threatening illnesses, to which they're both being treated for to this day.  While i was away from crafting my husband and i took the opportunity to renovate the dungeon (lol just a nick name, promise) down stairs to be my craft room. Now we can have the kitchen table back haha. 

Its still incomplete but the foundation is there now. Here are the progress shots!

Concrete floor, semi-passable brick walls and so many holes. We had to replace the left wall and make is structurally safe and rewired everything. There was a huge hole in the external wall too that needed to be sealed.

Once the building work was done it was time for paint. Lucky for me the person tinting the paint did a wonderful (cough not) job of having the sample match the paint. We ended up with a base coat that was 3x darker than requested. But we persevered and finished it off with a nice pastel purple called cloudberry.

I wanted to have one wall a feature. So i chose a marbled mermaid look using a few colours in a matching pallet. I hand painted the marbled wall and gently used a roller over the top to blend everything nicely.

Next the tricky bit. Using holographic gold paint, i hand painted scales over the entire wall. The effect of using this paint leaves a shiny and bright gold scale up close and from the other side of the room, the gold holo paint merges into the wall to appear marbled.

I'm fairly happy with my wall and should be lovely and calming for me to stare at when i need a break from crafting.

The majority of the furniture has also been built and it's ready to be populated with my crafty supplies! All of the furniture i chose was either white or a pale beige to match in with the walls and not distract away from the feature wall.

Do you see a sneaky gremlin chicken on the windowsill? Haha!

I still have to install a large art print, caulk peg board, desk accessories, bins etc before the room is complete. I'll be slowly finishing off my room in the next month and by then miniatures and youtube tutorials will be back!!

Now for the scary and large process of purging old craft supplies and organising my new room... I'll keep you all posted!

Victorian suite

Hi Guys! I made a 1:12 scale miniature Victorian lounge suite complete with tiny table. Apologies for not completing a step-by-step for the beginning of the project, I simply forgot T.T

Essentially what I did was create a template for my design on paper and roll out thin strips of polymer clay and cut out each template before baking. I pre-baked each piece separately and the assembly as well as the arm rest pieces were completed at the same time, using liquid polymer to join each piece together.

After baking this is the progress so far...

I gave each piece a very light sanding to rough up the smooth, shiny surface and give a more realistic wood grain finish. Then i gave it a very light coat in paint primer. The primer I used is from citadel paints as it is nice and dark, showing up the darker undertones of the wood as well.

Here is the progress after the wood stain has been completed and the gold trims have been brushed.

I opted out of fabric as all I had in stock was of a low thread count. For tiny furniture such as this, high cotton thread count or non-fraying material is preferred to minimize the bulkiness. I think textured finish like this turned out nicely though. ^^

I will be putting these cute little pieces up for sale in the near future on etsy, so stay tuned!