Just a Little More Glitz.....

I am doing little things today. I didn't tell you before, but I was bitten by a spider last Friday. I have had spider bites before without a lot of trouble, but this one kept getting worse. I finally broke down and spent Wednesday afternoon in Urgent Care Center in our neighborhood. To make a long story short, after waiting 2 1/2 hours the doctor took a look at me from 6 feet away and prescribed two kinds of antibiotics and a tetanus shot and left. I won't be going back there again. Not even if I am at death's door.

Anyway, you don't want to hear a description of the bite and gruesome details so I will just say it hurts and I am not doing a whole lot. I think that the antibiotics are starting to kick in today. When they do, I will be back to normal, whatever that is........

I filled a few more holes in the typesetter's drawer this morning. I am not sure what people are going to think of the toilet setting on top. Oh well. I like it.

I made the mistake of tiptoeing into Tessie's cottage and taking away the sparkly light. When she found out where I put it, she took up residence next to it and started trying to call the other witches to enlist help. She still doesn't get the fact that the phone isn't connected. She looks into the mouthpiece and yells a lot. Maybe I should give in and let her have it a bit longer. For the present, I am going to leave her there. It keeps her occupied and out of my hair.

I did do one tiny project this morning. I had some Metal Miniature pieces that were primed and ready to paint.
When unfinished or just primed, they are not at all pretty, but the detail is great. I have had these for quite a while and never found a place to use them until now.

I primed the pitcher with charcoal and the candle sticks with white gesso. BTW, if you want acrylic paint to stick well to the metal, first wash them with soap and water and then rinse with alcohol. This takes any residue of mold release from them.

The candlestick in the middle was an experiment. I used a copper leafing pen on that one. I liked the look. It was a bit hard to get down into all of the little crevices, but it worked.

Here's the results. I tried to completely cover the candle sticks. With the pitcher, I wanted it to look old so I only hit the high points with the copper leaf.

After the paint dried, I used some of the rub on metallic in gold on the candlesticks and I threw in the train engine for good measure and used the gold on the edges and high spots on that too. I think that they turned out pretty good for lowly metal minis.

I am going to go back and nurse my wound now and see if I can get into more mini trouble.

See you tomorrow.