Pull Horse

Thank you all for nice warm welcoming words on my last post and the compliments, they warmed my heart.

On our weekly mum-daughter night we made a little pull horse .

The horse is from a broken plastic carousel(Christams ornament).

We painted it with acrylic paint and now it looks like wood.

We used a little woodsy and drill a hole in it , painted it and beads for weels glued to a piece of coctail stick, a piece of string with a little bead is tied on the woodsy and the toy was ready.

My mum's toy is the one with the red weels and mine has purple weels.

I am looking forwar to Saterday, my mum and i go to shop for miniatures at a miniature fair  poppenhuizenbeurs in Rijswijk 

Hugs

Maria

Day 6 of the corners,a little tutorial, a lampout of beads and help!!

We are busy making a chair, still needs to finish it up.

 and we made some more bundles of wool.

For those who don't know how you make bundels of wool here's how we didi it:

First take a big straw ( the ones who comes with milkshakes) and cut it in pieces, as big as you want your bundles to be.

Than take a needle and thread, we used embroidery thread but you can use whatever you want.

Start winding the thread around the straw by going in one  whole end , going out the other whole end.

Do this till you're bundle is big enough and than cut it of.

You don't have to use glue, it will stay like this by itself.

You can finish it of with a lable, made out of paper.

 I also made a lamp out of beads and wire for the girlsroom of my big dollshouse.

Maybe you wandering why you did't see me for a while.

I am having some problems with my laptop.

If i want to type some texts my laptop is acting really strange.

If i type a t i get a new tab and if i type a p it wants to print and more of this things.

The only way i can type a letter is by typing ctrl and then one letter and then ctrl and type the other letter.

I don't know how i can fix that.

Has anyone of you had this roblem before?

I am now using my man's computer posting this post.

Day 5 of the corners / wicker baskets tutorial.

 We made a basket, only one each.

Let me show you how we did it:

First you need a piece of sticky florist tape.

 I did cut a piece 50 cm and cut that piece lenghtwise in tree pieces.

Wrap that around a florist wire of 7mm.

Saw a circle from thin wood and dril holes in it not to far apart from eachother, make sure it is an uneven number.

 Cut the wire a bit longer than you want your basket to be.

 Glue the wire in the holes.

 Weave small rope or cotton tread around the wire.

 If you want your basket to be wider on top bent it before weaving.

Finish of by making handels from a piece of rope  or not and make a braid to decorate the top and hide the wood on the bottom.

We used tacky glue because that doesn't make stains when dryed.

On the picture the glue is still wet.

 A lot of work, but they turned out pretty cute, don't you think?

I hope you like this tutorial .

If you have questions, please ask, i'll be glad to help.