Upcycling paperback book

Book Folding Fairy House

Fold book in shape of house and decorate with bits and bobs!  Wool used for grass. Sea shells for garden ornaments.

The last few months have been taken up with study and model making.  I have loved coming up with an idea for a flower shop for a shopping centre.  I have used a lot of quilling flowers I made a number of years ago waiting for the right moment to use them.  There is decoupage on the little wooden chair.
The flower pots are beads and small flowers used for dolls house miniatures 1:12 scale.  The outside is polypropelene so that you can see into the inside all around.  The green is made from pan scourers. 

2011 Year End

Well what an unusual year!  So many diverse projects and challenges.  I am happy to be at the end of it and looking forward to some promising leads for the new year and new friends.  My art work is going well and filling a gap left by my job loss.  Thank God.  Planning on running a course in Dolls house Interior Design and getting ready already.  Exciting.   My chairs are going well thanks to a new friend Margaret whom I met in June.  We were destined to meet as I feel a connection where we have the cake and the cream!
Enjoy this year and Best Wishes to you all.

My miniature Life and Love

I always wanted a dolls house and in  1999 I set about my journey into miniatures!! What a Journey!  I got sucked in and I am still working down the scales at 1/144th at the moment.  I built my first house in 1/12th scale.  I enjoyed collecting all the items and making what I could.  I spent 8 weeks making a patchwork quilt hand pieced and stitched for the bed.  It was a labour of love and worth every stitch.  I have many treasured items collected on my travels around the world.  My second scale was 1/24th so it is almost completed.  I got a comission to do the Street Scene in 2004 seen here and it is proudly displayed in a Pub in the Galway area.