The Circus Arrives Without Warning....and so do I.

Yes, thats right, after MONTHS of not having a computer, trying to do everything through apps, hating my tablet and frustrated by my phone.....I have a normal life again.

Its weird, the screen seems so big.

ANYWAY, I've been crafting during my absense, and here is a result.....a Realpuki sized diorama, inspired by The Night Circus.

How cute is this little reveure? 

You can find the end result here: Night Circus Pumpkin

Pumpkin house is officially up for grabs!

Now I can start being anxious about shipping it....ha ha ha!

Here is the Etsy link, to my dusty old shop which i haven't used in a looooog while!

Realpuki pumpkin house

Mini pumpkin house- Realpuki size.

So I keep making these things.

I thought I'd offer some of them for sale, because it's getting a little weird up in here. We got pumpkins all over. And honestly, I love making them. I can't stop. Therefore, I will offer a couple for sale in my Etsy shop, Lovefool Designs. (Which I haven't used in forever, since my ole jewlery craftin' days)

It is a realpuki sized diorama, made with various, various crafty materials.  You can see Jackie here, with his guitar (neither of which are included in the selling of this diorama) lookin cute and giving a good size reference.

Here's a cute little garden sculpture, made with some glass I found at the beach, and moss which I am addicted too. 

I'll add some more pics and list in on Etsy as soon as I can get a shipping quote. But i really hope someone likes it. I love it, but I made it so it really doesn't count. I can't be the only one out there obsessed with realpuki pumpkin houses!

Curtains for the pumpkin house.....or, a tutorial on how not to do things.

Ok, so I saw this idea on another miniature blog somewhere.....I thought I bookmarked it, but I have no clue where it went, so thank you, mystery blogger for the idea.

I thought some curtains would really bring the pumpkin house together, and I would love to finish it this year, so this was my jump off project.

Scraps of fabric, brass tubing and some little brass beads with holes.

I cut the fabric into same sized rectangles and folded over some seams...this was super easy because of the checkered fabric, very helpful in measuring!

 

I used a fabric glue to do all the seams....because I hate sewing. This was fast and easy.

Then I inserted the brass rod and scrunched up the curtains, pinned them to a styrofoam...I had seen this on the blog, only she didn't use pushpins and she didn't use styrofoam. Don't use pushpins or styrofoam. Pushpins are really thick and left obvious holes in the fabric.....sewing pins are way more discreet.

The mystery blogger sprayed her curtains with hairspray to hold them.....I used a spray adhesive. Don't use a spray adhesive. It does not dry well, it made everything sticky AND it melted the styrofoam! Fun!

 

Here are the little brass balls glued onto the rod.....You can really see how 'well' the spray adhesive worked here.....(sarc.)

 

Aaaaaaaaand a couple of shots from the glue gun, and they are hanging up! how cute huh!

 

 

SO, this can be a quick and easy project, if you do things NOT the way I did them.

 

Next....I would like to have the chimney pipe installed, and the little lanterns hanging on the sides! Get the table in there, with a little matching cloth....it might start to look like home!!!!

 

Always in bloom at the pumpkin house...

Moss and blooms and rocks....

I cannot wait till winter leaves. I think my goal this year should be to finish this dang pumpkin house!!!

Jackie's time to shine!

Since it's Halloween....here's my guy, Jack. His home needs work, but he's sort of a spartan guy anyway!

Happy Halloween!!!

The Pumpkin house....

Ok, well I have been toying with ideas for making a home for my Realpuki Roro, Ghost.
And I can't help it, even though it's been done....I want to make a pumpkin house.
Luckily, we had a crap-ton of halloween decorations boxed up, and I found a nice big pumpkin to carve up.

I wanted the inside to look like an actual dried out pumpkin, so I concocted this recipe of acrylic texture paste, craft sand, yellow and cream paint, and some pastel dust:

So I mixed it up and smeared it on:

And then added some pastel dust for effect, just scraped 2 shades of orange onto the paper with a blade, and then I gently blew it into the wet....'recipe':

And here it is, dried, with the cardboard beginnings of the stone fireplace (which I worked on today and will post pics of very soon- its AWESOME). I really like the colour, and am VERY excited about this project!: