Platters for Mini Foods

Before I figured out how to make my own dishes and platters from clay I used to buy bolo tie clips from Hobby Lobby for that. They come in a wide variety of shapes and sizes. As you can see from the one empty one in the picture, they have holes in the center but that's easily covered with clay and then the clay foods are baked right onto the clips.

Garage Sale Find

This is the top of a large glass jar and seems to be handmade. Look at all those useful minis! There are jars and cans of food, a tea pot, flowers, several different pots and pans, gravy boat, glass storage jars, a juicer, and a cookie jar and more glued on a bed of mini ferns. Everything will find a place in some mini kitchen I made.

Another Valentine's Miniature Tree

This time I decided to do a simple white tree with just pink roses, hearts and candy canes. The candy canes don't show up as well, though. I'll use this as the centerpiece for my dining room table. I've got a dome to fit over the whole tree, and a little tree skirt to add.

Valentine's Mini Tree

I have a RL Valentine's tree which you can see here and that inspired me to make a miniature one as well. I made mini Fimo hearts and roses, attaching them to the tree with wires, for the decorations.

Update on This Is No Mini

This is a picture of 2 of the 3 alligator trappers who are here to try to remove that big gator that hangs around the pool. They carry polls and bows and arrows and they are currently trying to call the gator.

Rooster Kitchen in Miniature

I am working on making a rooster kitchen and you'll see here a Michael's hutch that I've decorated with plates of roosters that I made, and a hand-made kitchen table that's got an egg being made for something. I also made the little tea pot from clay but purchased at a garage sale the various birds shown there.

Gingerbread Scene

This was fairly easy to make, and fun as well because I had to make some gingerbread and some ginger cookies to get the models. :) There is a little bowl with the gingerbread mixed in it on the table, so again, I wanted to know exactly what the real thing looked like. I made gingerbread men cookies by first cooking polymer clay after rolling it out thin and texturing it, and then after cooking I just used a paper punch to make the cookies. I found a book on Christmas cookies and used that as the background for the scene, for the walls, with a page open showing gingerbread cookies. I used a pen to scribe in boards on the luan plywood floors, and then stained that. I really like using that plywood to simulate wood floors.