Bridal: First you need to choose the scene: Will it be the Bride's bedroom, getting ready for the wedding? You could have the gown and veil, flowers, etc. displayed in the room, and maybe show trousseau items around (in state of packing for the honeymoon) and some wedding gifts. Or you could do a church scene with the Bridal couple standing at the altar, flowers and candlesticks around. Or have them posed in a garden scene, or at the reception cutting the cake. If it's a small scene, you could just display items that are special to the wedding, like a memory box. No matter what, it'll be fun.

Paulette in Indiana

Bridal: what about scanning the invitations and making miniature ones and scan a picture of there wedding picture and hang on the wall? and there was someone out there that gave a how to make idea for a wedding cake. and what about taking a picture of her wedding dress and making it in miniature or having someone else make it? what about making your daughters dressing room scene? like gloves and dress and garter and a bed and a changing wall and some other clothes in a closet? a wedding ring and pearls and a long mirror. Or you could remake the bridal party?? where she got the gifts and things? just some ideas...

Jennifer KY

Wedding Dome: Isabel asked for help with a wedding room box. I made a dome for my daughter Andrea's first anniversary. Her wedding took place in Denver at the historic Grant-Humphreys Mansion. I was fortunate to find a water color picture of the house in a calendar of historic Denver houses. I made a folding screen for the background, using that picture. The dress was the hardest part for me. I found a dress in a Susan Sirkis Wish Booklet that came close in design and was able to make the dress from it. I made several versions in different fabrics before I was successful. The flowered fabric draping the table is an almost perfect mini match for the fabric in the bridesmaids dresses. I made the cake from Fimo. You can't really see the tiny shoes, but they are decorated with little beads. I had fancied up her real shoes with lace appliqués and pearls. I also copied her bridal bouquet of white roses. Just put lots of love into it and your daughter will treasure it forever!

Linda P in TN

Wedding Bag: Your wedding room box can be as simple or as elaborate as you want it to be. I did a wedding memory box for my son and his wife on their 1st Christmas together. However, I didn't do it in a room box, but in a gift bag. I found a bag with roses all over it nearly identical to the roses in her bouquet. It wasn't a very large bag but I managed to get everything in it I wanted to. It was just bit enough to hold a lace-covered rectangular table that I built up to the height I wanted to foam core--then covered with white felt, and then used pre-pleated lace for the sides, lace across the top and tiny lace trim to hide where the edges came together. On the table I had a wedding cake with flowers similar to their real wedding cake (the cake was different sized dowel rods glued together and covered with white Silicone caulk. The table also held a bottle of champagne, 2 Chrysnbon glasses tied with white silk ribbon bows on the stems, a reduced copy of their wedding program and a tiny wedding cake cookie tied in a cellophane bag (like their wedding favor). On the back wall of the gift bag I glued their invitation as a backdrop for the "reception table." On the floor on both sides of the table were wedding gifts. On the right wall was their framed wedding picture and the left wall, a framed sampler, mini-ized version of a larger one I made for their Christmas gift, also. I have a few pictures on my web site if you'd like to take a look at it: http://fayzerplace.homestead.com(go to "My Minis" , and then "Wedding Bag."

Fay in St. Louis

Transfer Medium: The Transfer medium you are looking for used to be called Frisket. I have used clear contact paper for the same kind of transfer, however, the most recent uses at my house were painting Mod Podge on the picture or object to be transferred, give 2 or 3 coats, drying between, cut out area you want to use with scissors, then soak in warm water until the paper part looks wet, then gently rub off the paper, leaving the transfer part (colored) let dry, trim as needed, then fix transfer to object. My mother did a lot of decoupage in her later years and this is the method she used. I just look at a picture and draw and paint what I want right on the object. (sure I know each of us has our own talents and one of mine is drawing and painting) You can also use thinned tacky glue if you can't get ModPodge.

Rhoda from Whidbey Island

Glue Tip: I use the Aleene's tacky glue and have several bottles that have thickened and just wont come out. It makes them impossible to pour. I use a glue syringe. I run some warm/hot water in the sink and sit the bottle down in it for a while and then you can pour it into the syringe with no problem.

Kim

Weldbond Glue: Weldbond is a white glue that dries clear and is available at home improvement stores such as Home Depot and at hardware stores such as True Value and Ace Hardware. It comes in a white plastic bottle with red writing.

Jennie in San Antonio TX

Weldbond Glue: Weldbond is a general purpose glue that can be thinned to lots of different consistencies to do lots of different things from gluing to glossing. It's very sturdy when dry-I used it on some picture frames that had to hold some weight-and it's holding up just fine. It's very runny (a little more so than Elmer's white glue) and it takes 24 hours to completely set. I have found that Aileen's Quik-n-Tacky works the best-it tacks up quickly, but not so quick that you can't jimmy pieces around, and it's not too runny. I found Weldbond at the art store in the drafting section (!why?) and Quik-n-Tacky at Joann's-but I've seen it at every craft store.

Monika

Yes Glue: I do mostly quarter scale, and it doesn't take a lot to wallpaper a quarter scale house, so my glue does thicken on me. I find that when it does, after spreading with a credit card, lots of times it is almost dry by the time I start putting it on walls, and it doesn't stick as good. I just add a little water, mix it thoroughly and for me, it does a much better job. I hated to use it before I started thinning it.

Betty in Ky

Yes Glue: YES glue is actually a bookbinders paste. It is used to glue those sheets of sometimes fancy paper on the inside of the covers of hard cover books (among other things). One of its great attributes is that it doesn't cause paper to stretch or curl. Adding water can negate this feature. A really good tool for spreading YES paste is the auto body putty spreaders that are available in auto parts stores. We use them to spread the paste (just enough to make it look shiny or wet) and to smooth the wallpaper onto the wall to eliminate bubbles.

YES paste also does not attack the copper wire as some wallpaper pastes will do. What I don't understand, is why Grandma Stover's takes a 4 fl. oz. jar, fills it with YES paste and sells it as 6 oz.

Tom Berkner