Studio 27 - By Jennifer Adams: September 2024

Friday, September 27, 2024

House Gnomes: Kitchen

Are you ready to see the kitchen for my house gnomes? Check it out:

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Starting again with a shadow box painted in beige for the walls and gray for the floor, I began gluing together craft sticks to create a counter.

With the frame in place (top photo) I added more craft sticks to serve as the counter front. Another craft stick above will be the wall shelf.

I constructed the pantry shelves by gluing in another frame with smaller craft stick pieces added in length wise. All of the furniture was painted in white acrylic before I began gluing in Barbie accessories (the basket, sausages and bag of flour)

I continued gluing in accessories until the kitchen was full. A lot of the items are as I found them, but some I repainted. The plants were pink kitchen containers that I painted gold and glued in tiny pieces of greenery and the hanging pans were pink that I painted in gray. The sink was a pink dish that I also painted in gray, all Barbie. The tiny cheese, lemonade and fruits are miniatures from Hobby Lobby and the buttons I added in for fun - the hanging light is also a button.

And that's my miniature kitchen.

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Want to see more?

House Gnome Door Tour

Miniature Laundry Room

Miniature Breakfast Room

Miniature Dining Room

Miniature Front Room

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I hope you enjoyed this how-to miniature post, thanks for stopping by!

-Jennifer

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Friday, September 20, 2024

Fake Bake Cookies: Halloween

I'm always adding to my collection of fake food decor whether I find new cutters, a new mold or just want to experiment with a different medium! This time I used salt dough and some new Halloween shapes, check it out:

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Here are the cutters that I found at the thrift store. Any time I find a shape that I don't currently have I make sure to purchase it. That way I get to add more pieces to my fake bake holiday sets and fill out😍 my cookie cutter collection!

After mixing up some salt dough I used the cutters to create these shapes and let them air dry.

Sometimes I air dry my dough and sometimes I use the oven at 250. Air drying leaves the dough completely flat and pale, but takes at least a week. If your dough pieces are very big it can take longer, and if the room is humid mold can even start to grow while the dough is still damp. Oven drying needs a couple of hours at least and will give the dough a bit of a browned look. Sometimes the dough can get puffy in the oven, but if you catch it quickly enough you can use another pan to flatten your pieces back down.

Do you see the cracks in the dough in the photo here? That's simply because I didn't spend more time working the dough before cutting. Sometimes I like a really smooth cookie and sometimes I'm going for more of a roughed up look. If you want your dough to be smooth then spend a little more time working it before rolling it out and you won't have this problem.

This post has the salt dough recipe.

Once the dough cutouts were completely dry I painted them with acrylic. I left these cookies pale, but if you want a more browned look you can give them a 'wash' first. Mix a couple of drops of brown paint with water until you like the color, then brush the stained water over both sides of your cookie. Adding water is going to make your dough a bit sticky again on the surface, so be sure to let your pieces thoroughly dry again before moving on.

A bit of puffy paint for the details and my cookies were done!

I only made three because I have such a large amount of faux Halloween treats already. These I will tuck in with the rest of my cookies and because I left them pale and a little rough, they will add a nice contrast You can see more of my Halloween fake bake collection here.

And those are my latest Halloween fake bake cookies!

Interested in more fake bake crafts?

Check our these posts:

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Salt Dough Pizzas

4th of July Fake Bakes

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I hope you enjoyed this fake bake post, thanks for stopping by!

-Jennifer

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Friday, September 13, 2024

House Gnomes: Front Room

Welcome back to the tour of my miniature rooms, today I'm sharing the front room shadow box:

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Starting with a thrifted shadow box I repainted it with beige walls and a gray floor. This miniature laundry room post will take you through those steps in more detail.

I've been making each miniature room reflect the furniture and decor of the rooms that they are being placed in, so my front room box features my desk area. I used craft sticks and hot glue to create a small table...

...then painted it white and glued it into the box.

I needed a box of some sort to serve as my computer screen and painted this Barbie pet food box in solid black. After gluing it to the table I painted the keyboard on the table top.

With the basics in place I then accessorized with buttons, empty thread spools and plants. The basket is a Barbie accessory and the pots all Barbie containers that I painted in gold before gluing in bits of faux greens. The mirror is a frame sticker where I kept the sticker backing paper in place inside of the frame and colored it gray to represent the mirror surface. I always have a jar of dark chocolates on my desk in real life so a tiny Barbie container worked here as well 😊

And that's my miniature front room.

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Want to see more?

House Gnome Door Tour

Miniature Laundry Room

Miniature Breakfast Room

Miniature Dining Room

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I hope you enjoyed this how-to miniature post, thanks for stopping by!

-Jennifer

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Friday, September 6, 2024

DIY Faux Pumpkin Plant With Dollar Tree Foam Pumpkins

With September here it's time to start crafting our fall decor. Take a look at how easily you can put together your own faux potted pumpkin plant:

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Starting with this thrifted bucket that I found for $1.99, I stuffed the bottom with newspaper to make it less deep.

On top of the newspaper I settled a round bit of foam with glue on the bottom. Since it was a recycled bit of foam it already had a few tiny holes, but that's no problem as they won't be seen. I used a screwdriver to add in a couple of larger holes to create a holder for my greens.

If your plant is going to be top heavy, you can always put something weighty like rocks underneath your foam to keep the plant from tipping over.

First coating the handle of the faux bushes with glue, I then pushed them into the foam holes.

I used two bunches of greens for this planter. They also were thrifted and had a few sticks with missing leaves here and there - no problem, just snip those off.

The artificial greens covered up most of the foam, but I added in a bit of moss to fill out the container. Just tuck the handfuls in here and there around the base of your greens until you feel the foam is covered enough. I like to put a bit of glue on the foam first to keep the moss from shifting around as much.

Next using wooden dowels and foam pumpkins (both Dollar Tree), I glued a wooden dowel into the base of each pumpkin.

Then adding a bit more glue to the remaining end of the dowel, I inserted the dowels into the foam of the planter.

I want to point out here that the stems of my pumpkins are visible as I intentionally placed the dowels on the bottoms of the gourds. In nature each pumpkin is going to be attached to it's plant by it's stem, not it's bottom. But since I liked how the pumpkins looked better with their stems up, I went ahead a broke the rules 😋

And there you have it, a faux potted pumpkin! This plant is great for fall decor, but I actually keep mine in my 'garden shed' with the rest of my fake fruit and vegetable plants. You can see that shed in this post.

And that's my faux potted pumpkin.

I hope you enjoyed this how-to post, thanks for stopping by!

-Jennifer

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