flower-hour ;)

Hey there beautiful soul, how did you end up here? 😉 Some tiny flower-power (hence the little wordplay of the title) I borrowed from Mother Nature. As a prop to show a little something of what I haven't been able to finish yet, just as an excuse to have some fun shooting a couple of pics.

I'll save you the reasons for my long absence, whoever even reads this after being m.i.a. for so long. I still love it, but I'm not sure what my blogging future is going to be like, what I am realistically able to do but it will always be what I can. Because I'm still crazy passionate about miniatures and continue to be working on them whenever I can to keep creating what I love so much.

The rare possibilities I've had I've been working on a simple and mostly cardboard/printed scene*, but I haven't gotten very far yet. See photo below for where I'm at with one part of it, a rustic/industrial coffeetable.
*while hoping I'd suddenly remember where the hek I put away my tiny leadballs 😇 that I need to proceed on my working blender. The irony is that I put them somewhere with the intention to easily find them again, haha!

I just had to show a close up of the mantleshelf, isn't it gorgeous?
I love the way Mother Nature provides us with the perfect things to use for our projects, like this rustic shelf that's just one of a box of pieces of driftwood I once ordered from a flower- or hobbywebshop

Then I realized there might be perfect to scale miniature flowers in a gorgous bouquet of flowers I received recently (I usually always check for those right away and dry them 😉), and there were. So I used them as an excuse to photograph those and to be able to finally use/show at least part of what's in the scene I mentioned. And to show my face again so to speak because I've missed hanging out here!

The lovely & perfect crackle vase is by Elisabeth Causeret of course, the mannequin was a Kit by Queenie Miniatures (don't remember the webshop, but different ones worldwide used to sell this kit if you're interested in one) you may remember I once dressed up with fabric that I distressed and added clay arm-thingies to, as well as the name of a fashionbrand 'Lanvin' (the oldest French fashion house actually). And if you've been a follower for a while you probably remember my 'Murphy's-Law'-working-tablefan. The mantle is the half of a small, elongated box painted with stonepaint, the frame I borrowed from my drawing to frame the quote that was my last years new year's outlook/wish (the scene had meant to be for Christmas 2018) I printed on cardstock and the mantle-shelf is a piece of driftwood from a bunch I once ordered from an online flower- or hobbyshop, like the flowers, made by Mother Nature and I absolutely love it!

Hope you like it, but it already served its purpose because I had fun photographing & showing it 😊

And below what's going to be part of the actual scene, a treetrunk-coffeetable I've been able to work on a bit of and on a while ago. I had been thinking of a way to get the wheels to turn/spin so they'll 'swing' in all directions just like normal tablewheels would (not thát difficult) while also firmly attached to the trunk (which was the challenging bit and I still need to find out I'll get it that way when I get to that). Although it's nothing electrical or spectacular, I think it's fun!

The treetrunk is another fabulous creation by Mother Nature by the way. It's a slice of petrified wood I found online a couple of years ago and thought would make a great rustic/industrial coffeetable. It's polished which I don't like, but fortunately only on one side, so my top is actually the bottom, the unpolished side. Oh and the wheels are metal ones I ordered once at Art of Mini, just in case anyone wants some (if they still have those that is).

That's it for now, I hope to be back with more in not too long, take care!