Tekemiäni miniatyyrejä

Tilda-nukke, joka sai jo oman kodin FB.n loistavan nukkekotikirppisryhmän kautta. Hinnaksi tuli lopulta 10 euroa.

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Uusin kokeiluni perhosvitriinien saralla: Soikea malli! Muoto viehättää minua ja aion tehdä näitä lisää. Vitriinin syvyys on noin puoli senttiä ja siinä "lasi" muovikalvosta. Perhonen on hyvin harvinainen, harmi, että nimiteksti on niin pienellä, ettei voi olla aivan varma nimestä ;)

Omatekemä Tilda-nukke

Butterfly and honeycomb-patchwork

Lately I've been on an astonishingly romantic mood, when making miniatures. I don't have a romantic gottage yet, so I had to modify my Dicken's inspirated dark upstears (temporarily) room to get a background for my sugary-sweet-romantic things! I've made everything, but the beautifully crocheted rug and doily. They are the handworks of  talented Tiina. From her blog I got the idea to start sewing that honeycomb-patchwork. It was a good size handwork to carry around when travelling! PS: The miniature butterfly on the wall has "horns" made of thread.

Btw. I DID read the "The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club" by Dicken's to get the inspiration to make this room ready as I planned before, but I just kept dreaming of pale pink and butterflies. Maybe I have to wait to the end of the autumn to get the right gloomy feeling ;)? Also I connect Dickens with Christmas in my head, so maybe there will be an endless Christmas in this room? I have to admit, that when I got this idea, I almost bought a nail jewelry kit to make some Christmas tree bulbs! Shop-a-holic!

Small sized hobby of mine

I've had a dream about a small dolls house in my mind about 2 years now. I've searched the net and found amazingly realistic dolls houses and decided I would want to try my skills to do that too. I did built a big, three and half storey, plywooden dolls house (on my own design) about 6 years ago, but realised that I don't have the consentration needed for doing something like 100 windows that are the same! I want to do one or two things and then change to something else. So I was really happy when I found this from flea market last month:

It's made to contain herbs and pepper and salt, but I saw the potential! This will be the base for my Dickens-spirited house. It will be on poor condition and positioned on some narrow alley of dubious reputation. Maybe in London? Haven't figured out yet what the house will be called or on what "street" it would be in? Any ideas?

The interiors are starting to form.

The first floor will have a fireplace and clazed doors and I'm trying to figure how I could make the door open and look like there really is a street or courtyard behind it. The best dolls houses I've seen have an illusion of continuity. Some cunning tricks are needed!

The 2.nd floor is darker and already has a door, but not much else. I'm seeing an absent-minded biologist having a work space in this room... Will see about that.

The last floos is the attic. I'm pleased on how this window turned out. It looks realistic when light comes from behind it. Hard to get that photographed! The attic has a funny wall paper that I found from the net and then printed out. It has bats on it...I'm so funny! I have bats in the attic!

When baby is awake - the blog sleeps

There has been a long silence here. But I hope my doughter (7,5 months old now) will soon sleep better so mama can attend to her hobbies more :)

The decorations I mentioned on that last post are mostly ready. New curtains and especially the fabric on the wall in our bed room are a small success.

The painted tree on the bed room wall needs more leafs (They are cut from different wall paper samples and glued to the wall). An owl lives already on the tree! I also got a new idea to hang our pictures on the tree trunk (I've got a group of small picture frames I have found at flea markets) - family tree!

New interior ideas

If I would make an interior magazine, it would have to be called: Slowly but Surely. It would be a small, sympathetic number, with lots of unfinished rooms. I ask you: Who ever got the idea that interiors of homes should look like a modern art museum where nobody actually lives?

I've been so sleepy and tired the whole summer and autumn - the reason is our upcoming baby, so it's kind of OK. Although it would be nice to get more done at the home. ( So many ideas - so few of them ready!) But small things make a difference: For example this lantern and lights make me happy (more so because I have to get to the bathroom at nights and it lights my way there)

Then I got my great grandmother's old chest delivered from my home town to Mikkeli. It's from 1920's and needs a bit of loving restoring. Well, there is no hurry with the restoring, because the thing is already on use in our living room. The space above it is looking really empty and I'm planning a big, colorful, textile board on the wall. (The fabric I've bought for it, is on the chest there).

A close up of one of the wood carvings from the chest:

Then the next big thing: A challenge! A possibility! The room that is to be 50% home office and 50% baby's room... At the moment the room contains just all our junk that has no other, better place yet (We have been living here only for 1 year - for heaven's sake!) And all the baby's stuff we'we acquired. Well as usual - I'm planning something really useful....

Instead of worrying the boring stuff (like the baby caring unit, that I let the father of the baby to get) I'm planning to paint a funny big tree on that blank wall (picture above). White walls are not my thing and this, for me, will make a huge difference on this room.

I've found many different tree silhouettes, but this one, I think, is the best:

I'ts a decorative sticker from Djeco. I might just buy the tree, but it's way too small.

Complementary colours

This is one of my favourite pictures and now I know why. I saw an art programme and there was an artist who told about Van Gogh's and his friend Gauguin's colour schemes. It was actually their "invention and science". I really luv these colour combinations! For example our kitchen is turquoise and bright red (and white - I have to admit).

This is the painting that takes me back to 2004 when me and my friend were Interrailing and visited The Vincent Van Gogh museum at Amsterdam. I soooo wanted to buy a replica of it, but the painting could not travel easy in or on my back pack.

The colours and the quirky way of making the perspective makes this a nice one too.

Gauguin loved the complementary colours so much he wanted there to be many of them side by side.

That is why I like Gauguin and Van Gogh.

Painted Sofa

The sofa-project is ready
Sofa isn't the original design I was thinking (look at the older post). And lucky it wasn't, because this easy-lookin pattern was suprisingly hard to do! I painted it twice with acrylic paint and then I made the mattress from old textiles I wasn't going to use anymore (like felted wool gardigan, old towels, a stained and really old bedspread...) I'm always really happy when something garbage-like thing can be re-used!! The striped fabric was just waiting in my fabric stash (it is wast)... And the pillows I found really cheaply from work, when we had closing-down sale of Esprit Home. The dog tried to eat the buttons that I made for the mattress :) Before the hall was so lame

And after!

I'm thinking of doing a picture collage over the sofa. I'm thinking ancestral dogs. I'm thinking fake (I'm so cheap) gold frames! You'll see