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Yay!
I don’t even know where to start, yesterday my husband brought the new issue of Miniaturas Magazine, and look who’s there! 🙂 Me! 🙂
This is the process of making Dickens’ desk I made some time ago.
Turning pages and here’s another one! Small article about me and some photos of my furniture and art nouveau roombox.
Still cannot believe my eyes, very happy and humbled. Thank you, Madelva and thank you all for reading my blog! 🙂 Good weekend to you, guys!
Second Floor
I finished the chairs and moved on to my dollhouse, now it’s the second floor, lots and lots of work here. The rooms are dusty and look very sad without lights, I need to make several lamps ASAP 🙂
Tea o’clock
I can’t stop playing with all those minis I bought recently:
Just For Fun
Cushions – done, now I need to cut those brass tubes and make some sort of stoppers for them.
This week I received a package from UK miniature store, with lots, no, I mean, LOTS of minis, I’m feeling like a small kid, happy and excited.
Wood carving tools sharpening
I’m in the middle of uphoslering the chairs, looking good so far. But today is all about sharpening tools.
The biggest fan of sharpening is my husband, but I still have to do that quite often, every other week usually.
My tools set:
Morris Chair
I started a new project from Scale Cabinetmaker magazine – two Morris chairs. I couldn’t find the right prototype on Internet, but you’ll get the idea, I hope.
Holidays
Just came back from the wonderful two weeks in Cyprus, it was amazing! We were very lucky with weather, not too hot and not cold, perfect temperature for sunbathing and swimming. What is more important – no Internet, it was a great chance to take some time off it.
At first, I was thinking of buying some minis, but then decided against it. It was just the time for ourselves. Before the trip I started making a simple Buck Point lace sample, it was a bit tricky for me, because it looks very easy, but you have to be very careful not to make any mistakes, as there’s a huge amount of pins; you just don’t see anything. And, obviously, I made some. Though, I have to admit, I like the result despite all of this.
I need to get back to Torchon book after that, several samples are not done yet.
bombe Chest – Done
One more commissioned piece is done. I only managed to make several photos of it.
It’s funny but the projects that look difficult are quite easy to make. Well, that’s how it works for me, at least. The drawers were easy to form, claw foot was also a simple task, I had enough practice with the previous piece as you can remember. 🙂
I made the inner parts out of mahogany as well, don’t know why, I guess I just love the color of it and thought it would look very nice. And it does, actually.
As for the hardware, this time I had to use the handles from Houseworks, I’d rather use the ones from Phoenix Model Developments, but there wasn’t the right size and from, I managed to use them only for the top drawer here. The back was trick, as you form the sides manually, with Dremel and bandsaw, so you spend a lot of time fitting it, the pattern won’t do here.
Despite its looks – it’s very light and you almost don’t feel it on your hand.
I actually love the mahogany covered with shellac, to me it’s so much nicer than cherry wood, though my husband thinks otherwise. The surface is so shiny and smooth under shellac. With so much practice I finally can achieve such results with French Polish.
I guess it won’t be the last bombe chest that I made, I’d love to have a similar one for my dollhouse.
First Fitting
I started making drawers, at first I cut them out with band saw, then sand with Proxxon rotary tool.
