Sleeping Beauty Cupboard.

Finished this and sold today! 

Faerie glow windows

The second custom order was for four arch butterfly windows. I had one for sale in my Etsy shop, and had just enough of the colours to make three more. These are quite popular as they do look rather magical glowing in the garden after dark!

Custom Orders, faerie closet.

Today I finished all but one of the custom orders. Just waiting for some paper roses to come, although I have a sneaky feeling they will be too big.
The first was the faerie closet, with crowns, slippers and tunics, and of course cake!

Custom orders

I begain some work on two new cupboards. These re custom orders, one a 'faerie closet' which the client requested to contain clothes, crowns, shoes and wings! The person who ordered has already purchased several of my cabinets including a faerie closet(Clothes and shoes) and a crown cupboard I made. This was an exciting challenge as I usually look at a piece of furniture and know immediately what to do with it. This time I ordered a doll's house wardrobe especially for this project.

 I chose a blue green to begin with although made it more blue after the paint had dried a little. I then added some pearl mauve , since this would go with the colours I had chosen to make the shoes with. I try to compliment the contents with the main colour. I then began work on some polymer shoes, and of course cake! This has become a bit of a thing with me, as my first ever faerie cupboards contained cakes!

 I chose a pastel lime and pale lavenders for the complimentary colours, which I think work quite well. I then started on the clothes. I actually dislike sewing the most, especially as they are such tiny, fiddly things to craft! I mostly use hand dyed muslin for this as you can work easily with it and can always add a little diluted P.V.A to 'mould' the finished item. I also used a little felt as of course you do not need to hem anything!

 I put the glue on first and then add 'flower soft' , micro beads and glitter to the clothes in fairly random patterns until I think it looks right.

Fox Spirit doll

Some of my work apart from making miniatures, is to make spirit dolls. I have made and sold several in the past, but thought I would try a fox. The idea came to me from someone who buys and has blogged about  my dolls. Corvine Magic has bought and worked with several dolls including a crow doll I made for her. She spoke of the spirit of the fox and what the totem represents, since I often watch the foxes at close range. I am grateful to her for sharing her spiritual magic and made this in her honour.