Disco Ball, Motorized: At Christmas time, you can buy a small attachment for a string of miniature lights. It replaces one bulb. The ornament hung from this gizmo revolves. I adapted one for a hanging light in one of my stores. Possibly an oversimplification of your required solution, but often, the simple way is the most effective.

Becky

Candles: an alternative to fimo is to use toothpick tips. Yeah, I know, that is what I said too, but I painted some tips the other day with gloss acrylic, and glued it into a candlestick holder it looks quite realistic.

Kim From Canada

Making candles: This is a Dutch website with lovely projects, including candle making. Go to: http://members.tripod.com/vanderhelm/workshop go to "Workshop kaarsen" and click on the picture. The instructions are Dutch, but it is easy enough to follow the process only by looking at the pictures.

Betsie, South Africa

Candle flames: In those tourist shops(at least in Colorado) They'll sell tiny pieces of rocks in small bottles. Amber or carnelian make great flames to glue on top of mini candles. They sparkle in a lighted room!

Michelle, Loveland, CO

Candles: I make mine out of porcupine quills. They are a translucent ivory color and look remarkably like candle wax. You can also dye them in RIT dye - -- my red Christmas ones are gorgeous. Be very careful of the dark tips - -- they have microscopically small barbs like fish hooks, and if you get one imbedded in the skin of you or your kids or your pets, it stings like the devil to pull them out. The other end has a root-like thing, and this is the wick. You can trim it to the size that matches the scale of the candle and maybe dab it with white acrylic paint to make it look more like a candle wick

Vicki

Candles, revisited: You could also use the middle part of the pick for a straighter line candle as well, I have done that with centerpieces. In that case I used bits of sewing thread as a wick in the middle.

Kim From Canada

Bees: My bees made from rice were from uncooked rice. I made them about 8 months ago and so far no bugs, no crumbles. I did worry about that but so far so good.

Pauline

Bees: There is a product on the market made by Sun Rice called 3 minute rice a bit like 2 minute noodles its a precooked then dried product this would make ideal bees

Carol Downunder

Tropical Fish - I saw an aquarium at a show, where the artist was kind enough to share her "secret". She said that she had color photocopied the fish, (mirror-copy for the back side), cut them out, and put a seed in between the papers for "stuffing", and glued the papers together. Don't know if you have enough time to make your own fish or not, but these were quite convincing.

Deena in Miami

No Camera or Scanner?? We to would like to see your work and you don't need a scanner or digital camera to show them to us! Use any camera, even a disposable one, to take pictures of your miniatures. When you bring the film in for developing check the box on the envelope that requests that prints be developed to disk. Once you have done this you will be able to load them to a photo site and we will all be able to view them. Ask us again when you have gotten your disks and are ready to load them and I'm sure we will be able to assist you.Marilyn, MI