Just a short update as to what is going on.......
My Husband, who has Multiple Sclerosis, has been in hospital and we are now home trying to regain his strength and what little bit of mobility he may still have.
Please pray for us as I have to keep my job for our insurance. I have no one and no resources to pay for someone to stay with him during the daytime. I have some vacation time to use but it is not unlimited. I am very tired due to rising several times at night to care for him and then taking care of him in the daytime, too. His social security disability has just started last month and he will have a two year waiting period for Medicare. Medicaid won't pick up until we have spent what little bit of savings we have. Tried to get help through MS Society once but the answer was we make too much money. If it is a $1.00 over the limit, it's too much.
God does answer prayer and already has in several instances in the past two weeks. If we can just get him back on his feet to be able to take care of himself during the daytime like he did before.
Need prayer more than anything else.
If anyone out there knows of any help we may be able to obtain, please email me privately   pinehaven1998@gmail.com
Thank you all for your kind comments about my miniatures. Hopefully things will return to normal quickly and I will be able to post another how-to before long.
Gail Harmon Cason

 

           This is a different version made into a settee; It is a little dirty since it has been outdoors in       a fairy garden :

Hope everyone is doing okay....maybe it won't be long before I can put another how-to up.
See you later!

Here I am again......

As I was clearing out some of the items in the craft room, I ran across my modern tables made from pizza "thingies" that you sometimes get in the middle to keep the box lid from touching the food.

Anyway, I spray painted two of them silver and topped them with stained wood circles. The circles are a little smaller than the span of the legs but I think it makes it look more modern this way.

 

 

 

Here is a picture of my niece and her new hubby...

 

Hope everyone has a good week!

 

Hi, everyone.....

Been a while since I have posted, I know.

My niece was married at the beginning of this month and we have been so busy with that. Also, my husband has had to take early retirement due to his health so I have lots of extra "jobs" round the house now. It takes just about all of me to work full time and do that, so.....my minis are suffering.

I am having a major clear out of my craft room and actually the whole house needs good clean, so I will be absent from the blogger world for a little longer.

I will show you a project that I worked on over the winter, though.

 

 

I bought some acrylic mirror in the auto department of WalMart, which is easily cut to size.  The bottom picture (sorry for the blur) is shot at a strange angle to get the details but it makes it appear to be un-matched on the side mirrors. I assure you it is level with the other side when viewed from the front.

Anyway, I framed it out with thin card then painted it gold. I stongly advise keeping the plastic film on while working as the mirror can become easily scratched, which is why I decided to antique it after all. After the frame is dry, remove the film and use a scruffy old paint brush to stipple and dot black acrylic craft paint around the edges at random. Make sure the brush is dry and dab off the excess onto paper towel so you have only a tiny bit left. Some of the paint will get onto the frame, too, but that is okay as it will add a little antique finish. Don't antique too much, though, a little around the edges is best, I think. I glued a little stand to the center back of the middle mirror to keep it from tipping backwards.

The vanity tray is gold color middy braid (purchase from the sewing department at Hobby Lobby) glued around an oval Woodsie; then lined with light olive color suede cloth or fabric. The box in the middle with the clear stones is a vintage necklace clasp I discovered on ebay; the jar on the left is a clear pony bead topped with a nail polish painted then decorated scrapbook brad; the jar on the right is the knob from a pocket watch winding stem. These make perfect little decorative accents. I found a small batch of these on ebay while searching for pocketwatch hands/parts.

 

Hopefully I will be able to finish my Spring clean and get back to my minis, which I so dearly love.

Until then, keep mini-ing to keep your sanity!

AM I CRAZY?

Does anyone know why we can't upload pictures from our pc anymore?
I had to open a Picasa web album to be able to place the peacock room pictures on my blog.....
I thought perhaps it was an issue with IE and upgraded to version 9 but that did not help.

I hate that version, too. It would be better if I could hide my favorites and then call it back up with one button like I did on version 8. I may just not know how......???

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH FOR YOUR VERY NICE COMMENTS ON MY MINIATURES.
I DO HOPE TO BE ABLE TO POST MORE OFTEN AND PUT MORE TUTORIALS UP.
WE'LL SEE........

PEACOCK LANTERN

HELLO OUT THERE IN BLOGGER LAND.....

LONG TIME NO POST!

I finally finished one of my lantern rooms; the black colored one with the wide black stripes on the back walls.

I made it into a peacock reading corner.  



Stem wire makes the quill; eyes are reduced pictures cut out and glued to the end of each wire. Paint the wire with white. Run a thin bead of glue along the edge of black cotton fabric, let dry and cut a strip about 1/2 inch wide. Pull threads to ravel the edge as shown. Glue the strip to the "back" of the wire and up around the edge of the "eye" and back down the other side. Let dry and then trim at a sort of jagged edge; highlight with a gold marker/pen and place in a vase.



BIRDS ON A WIRE..........TREE

Finally finished the birds Christmas Tree...

It does not photograph well as the ornaments are so light they keep turning in the slightest breeze.

There are Silver, Gold and Copper color birds.

Merry Christmas, Everyone!