sugarsweet

I made this working sugar pourer! Well to be exact: I made the spout. From tealightmetal and it's of course the part which basically makes it one :D. The rest is a glass miniature-perfumebottle* & a closed metal jewelerypart (endcap) that I made a hole in for the spout to go through. It can actually 'pour' the sugar (with a little help by tapping the bottle), the 'sugar' being regular white sand I've grinded to get it very fine. It's so fine, that to the naked eye it looks like powder, but as you can see in the photo on the right, they're still 'sugar'chrystals. Just very tiny and - probably - about the right size for miniature.

and as I've done with my other working miniatures, I've made a video of it being used! I have so much fun making those :D.

while filing the bottleneck to make the cap/jewelrypart fit (the neck was too wide for it) I unfortunately damaged the upper part of the glass, the part directly under the neck. It got scratched, although I really thought I was careful enough and avoiding just that. But apparantly didn't ;), so I decided it to be a feature of the glass ;). Like it's a section of sandblasted glass, albeit not the most neat one, but hey :D. With the 'sugar' in it it isn't even noticable.

also, the neck broke off while trying to get a tiny piece of metal out of the spout while the cap with it was on the bottle.. not a smart thing to do apparantly ;). I did have another one of that same perfumebottle I could use, but didn't feel like filing another bottleneck, which hadn't been the most fun part. It's also very delicate/risky to do as that part of the glass gets very thin because of it. So I decided to glue the piece of glass back on and hoped for the best. I used 2-part epoxyglue, that worked perfectly! And the cap still fits too, yay! It's still how it was before glueing: fitting snugly so it stays put while pouring, even with 'vigorous' tapping ;), but also detachable - very carefully - to be able to fill the bottle.

the little teabag for anyone who hadn't seen it before and because I really like the photo of it. I made it like a RL-teabag, glued in the middle so it gets two compartments, filled with real - finely ground - tea, folded and then closed at the top.

 
*unfortunately discontinued.., as are the other 4 models of perfumebottles from the same company...