Most of the members of Garden City Miniatures have been working on this little project since the start of the year. We finished the last workshop yesterday.
We meet on the third Saturday of the month at St Marks Church in Opawa, Christchurch. This was an ongoing project, Judy Straw was the main tutor, with other members of our club tutoring different workshops. We could choose which ones we wished to partake in.
The photos in this report are all of my own creation - mistakes/alterations/amendments/deletions/additions included!
The first workshop, was to decorate the base and screen, and put it all together along with the black shelves. (Sorry I don't have any photos of this.)
This is the front view of the finished product:
And with a NZ $2 coin for size comparison:
And the back view:
Close up view of the jewellery and precious bottles:
When we made the clock, candle stick & snuffer - I decided to add my little doll dressed in lacy black (a purchase from Convention last October).
I added a crystal bottle (piece of broken jewellery to the middle back of the display. (Hard to photograph - but it is there!).
Next to the hand holding the necklace, I added two handbags (actually buttons), and the small change purse (which is a bracelet charm with the jump ring snipped off!)
I was away from Club on the month the hats where made, so I made this pink little number at home - trying to recall the method from a workshop I attended around 5 years ago! My 8 year old son informed me I needed to include a mirror - so this is a little hand mirror charm I had, painted silver with the addition of a small piece of miniature mirror (easily cut with scissors) attached.
This shelf is different to everyone else's. I think the original sample had the shoes (from the box underneath) displayed on this shelf. I kept the shoes in the box, and tucked the shoe horn in beside them. The vase on the right is a bead from the Oamaru Bead Shop, with feathers; the middle "glass vase" another bead I purchased at our Club Garage Sale in May.
I made the tissue box out of square dowel, wrapping paper and 1 ply of real tissue paper. The handbag in front is another "clip" handbag. (On the original sample this handbag is displayed beside the hand.)
The last workshop day, we could choose to make a silver drape (to go over the chair); an Art Deco wooden chair and a fox fur. I didn't make the drape, but I did make the chair and the very gorgeous fox fur. (Very un-p.c. these days, I know, but all the rage in the 1920's!) And don't despair,only acrylic (I think!) fur and fimo was made to create him.
I really enjoyed making this project, and I think it will look quite nice in my bedroom. Thank you for taking the time to have a look.
