Log cabin flooring and chinking: For the floor, and the chinking, I’d use air-drying clay and paint it with watercolors to get the right effect: dark brown, smooth packed earth (maybe even plan your furniture placement and put in slight indentations where people would regularly walk and sweep?) for the log cabin floor and a lighter colorfor the chinking. Maura Bass |
Chinking: For the chinking, get a tube of latex caulk. It comes in white, ivory, clay, gray, well, you get the idea. Cut the end very small and adjust if needed. Remember that removing a very small portion of the end creates a big hole! squeeze it out and smooth with a wet finger. Martha Simpson |
| Mini potpourri: Courdee sent me a tip about making mini potpourri. So today when I was cleaning out the cupboard where I keep all my spices and herbs I thought this was the right time to try it. I had great fun, crushing up some dried flowers and a way past its selling date heather plant. I ended up with a blue-ish and a pinkish mix to which I added some crushed up bayleaves, heads of cloves, crushed cinnamon sticks etc. To round it off I added a drop of lavender oil to both mixes and put them in airtight boxes to mature a little as for full scale potpourri. I will add some thyme leaves and things from the garden that are drying in the microwave right now. I think it will be very nice. The only thing is.........you can make 12th scale potpourri but it you can't make 12th scale quantities. I think I will end up with lots of mini Christmas gifts. Marianne |
| Mini potpourri: All that potpourri would be great in a perfume shop with tiny soaps, little bottles of oils etc. Or gather some up in shear fabric like bridal veil material and tie with gold thread to put in various rooms. Or fill tiny bowls painted to match the bed or bath. Sweet idea. Gail in Orlando |
| Sculpy doll push mold: Rather than baking with the pipe cleaner already inserted, you can make holes through the limbs and insert pipe cleaners or wire after they are baked. Then your limbs are moveable. Kim |
| Sculpy doll push mold: The push moulds are very easy to use. My husband gave me the full set for Christmas last year. I recommend a light dusting of talcum powder on the mould first to stop the clay from sticking .Then take a ball of clay the size of the head you want to form & take a third away from this .Using this third flatten it out but leave a small cone in the center to push into the nose. Push this all into the form then carefully ease it out. this can then be smoothed back onto the two thirds of clay remaining. Any joins need to be smoothed out ,I use a moistened cotton bud for this .Remember to make a hole in the neck to take a pipe cleaner. Then just bake. The faces can be sculpted & changed slightly i.e. cut the mouth open to change the lips or show teeth. If you use the moulds with a full amount of clay you may find them a little out of scale. Liz Taylor |
| Push molds: Just an idea: I think it would be easier to partially bake the first half (front half) of the face first so it won't get smashed. Then add the back of the head. Here's what I think would work: before removing the head from the mold, push short pieces of toothpick into the clay, allowing the toothpick pieces to protrude about 1/4" or so. Then remove and partially bake it (just enough to somewhat firm it). Then add clay for the back of the head (the protruding toothpick bits will help to hold the two clay pieces together while you form the back of the head. Then smooth out the clay (back of head). Remember that the wigging will cover the area where front and back head meet if you feel the joint isn't smooth. Then bake them both together until cured. I have found that rubbing a SMALL amount of vegetable oil on my finders before smoothing out the clay makes that job a bit easier. viola |
| Push molds: I used the push mold of the legs with feet to make,footstools,and tables. Just add pant legs or skirt him and attach table top. Of course you want to paint the toenails of the "her";. Fannye in TX |
Harry Potter doll...why bother making one, there is a great resin cast one that is put out as an ornament, just unscrew the little deal at the top of his head...he's holding two chemistry class flasks...that's not the scientific name for them, they look kinda like wine decanters...you can tell I didn't pay attention in my science classes! It's not the ornament where he's attached to a book...have one of those, too, but can't figure out how to separate his body from the book without losing part of his feet. Molly Cromwell |
Vintage Hankies: Don't forget to save some of these for bed linens. They work beautifully. Becky |
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