All Minis, All the Time!

 I had a go at doing more painting on the dragon on the conservatory this morning... He is coming along and so is the inside, but nothing to show you up close and personal quite yet. 

I did notice that the windows are in need of a good washing though.

Did I mention that Tessie is the only one that isn't still partying as a part of my blog celebration... She is more interested in me making more minis for her.

Her only problem at present is finding a way to get out of the box that I just made for her yesterday... Yup.  Locked the door and hid the key...

This is the first day that I have been brave enough to mess with the cross stitch program on the new computer.  It took a while, but I managed to get it working...

This is more or less just a doodle.  If you want to use it for a pattern, feel free to blow it up and have at it.  You can use any four colors that you want to use.  I used two shades of green, a rusty brown and beige for a background.

Mind you, I didn't say it's the best rug that I ever designed, but hey!  It's a start! Next try I will do something more serious.

See you tomorrow.

One Step Forward...

And only one step back... I opened the conservatory roof to try the potting bench and discovered a lot of white spots on Desmond that didn't get paint!  It's not a BIG  step back, but it is going to have to be fixed!

Poor Desmond.  He it going to have to stand upside down while I paint his underneath part.

 Anyway, this is what the potting bench looks like so far.  It needs a couple more legs on the right side and some shelves.  Then it will need painting.

It's not perfect, but then I wasn't trying for perfect.  I just wanted something different in the way of a potting bench.

I may have to do some rearranging.  I think that it is going to look crowded with potting bench and fountain.  I would rather use the fountain somewhere else if it comes to getting rid of something.  I am liking the potting bench that I see in my  tiny mind. 

Actually, Tessie does too, so that is settled.

She keeps asking how long?  I keep telling her a day or two... That seems to satisfy.

I am going back to build shelves and paint dragons now...

See you tomorrow.

Layers upon Layers...

 OK.  I officially have the base coat on everything now.  Desmond is green and the bricks are stone colored...

 Now I have to make them look like a real dragon and real stones...

This could take a while...

After I get this done, I am going to have to decide what I want to do with the inside of the walls.  I am not sure that I want more stones...

I may just move to wood on the blank end.  I need shelves.  A place to put plant pots, tools and bags of dirt.

And I want to add a potting bench.

While I am trying to decide what to do, I am sitting around curving leaves.

I am using a new mat of a couple of layers of leather.

I couldn't find my stylus, so I am using a crochet hook.  It is working quite well. 

I only have about three or four hundred yet to go.

Wish me luck.  I'm going to need it.

See you tomorrow.

Going Green...

Slowly, but surely, Desmond is coming to life... I got one basecoat on him today.

I had to go out a while this morning.  Haircut and Christmas shopping. 

The other thing that is holding up progress is the fact that I didn't scribe the stones.  They all have to be gone over before I start painting them. 

There is a definite difference after they are scored.

Meanwhile, Desmond's older sibling has made himself at home inside the conservatory.

He is going to have to move, once I start working on the inside. No more laying around, doing nothing...

I am almost done with the scoring now.  Better get back at it. 

See you tomorrow.