You may remember a couple weekends ago, I posted about the big plans I had for the weekend to get lots of stuff done on several different projects, but especially for the Backyard Art Studio....... well as you may have guessed from the lack of posts since then, I really should know better than to make plans for getting stuff done..... lol. I thought I would have the whole weekend basically to myself (my hubster was at work during the day on Saturday and was going to be out of town from after work through most of the day Sunday), but as it ended up I didn't actually get hardly any time at home that weekend and, really haven't had a chance to work on anything since. But, today I ended up with a free day and it is super hot outside so I have no intention of going out any more than absolutely necessary, AND I found a DVD copy of The 10th Kingdom that I had forgotten I bought like a year or more ago...... (does anyone other than me remember the 10th Kingdom? It was a mini series that was on in the late 90's or very early 2000's....... I loved it, so I of course had to buy the DVD as soon as I saw it).
So needless to say it's highly unlikely that I'll get any housework done today while watching the 7+ hours of mini series, so I decided to do at least a little bit of what I had wanted to do the other weekend (although I'm not going to do too much most likely, because I ended up putting most of what I'm working on away last week because I need to finally get the table that's been in my living room since Easter out of here, so I don't want to get too much back out until I get the living room and craft room back in order... anyway....)
I have however had a tiny little project that I did a couple test pieces on and then has just been sitting there waiting for me to do more with for a couple weeks, so I worked on that this morning. It was actually super simple, much more than I thought it would be, because I found cloth tape in the scrapbooking section of Michael's, I think it was. One of the side walls in Flutterby Bakery is going to have bunting banners for decoration.... teeny. tiny, itty, bitty bunting banners. I want to have one that is doilies, I have yet to order the doilies though so I couldn't make that one yet, but I also wanted one that was colored round bunting. I originally though I would punch out paper circles to make the bunting out of, which would have been a total pain, but using the cloth tape and punching circles out of that worked pretty well, and then it's also fabric bunting which I like the look of better anyway....
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| the materials... minus the bakers twine I used as the string |
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| I punched holes out of the cloth tape using a regular hole punch {1/4" punch,so they would be 12" in scale}...... it worked pretty well sometimes there would would be a few treads it didn't quite cut and I'd have to cut them by hand, but that was no big deal. they didn't really have any with small enough prints for this tiny a scale (except the polka dots kind of worked) so I just lined up the punch with the part of the pattern I wanted to use. |
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| because it is "tape" and already has adhesive it made it super easy to just lay the bakers twine (which I pulled apart so there was only one strand each of the white and turquois-y color instead of 2 of each) across the middle of each circle...... |
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| .... and fold it over onto itself to make the bunting. |
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| then I put a dot of glue on the back of each half circle to attach to the wall |
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| it looks a little lonely up there on the wall all by itself, but there will be at least one other doily one up there with it, and then there will be a couple bistro tables and chairs on that side of the bakery underneath the bunting. I'm also thinking about attempting to make a banner of tiny tissue paper tassels, but I don't even know if that's really a possibility this tiny, and if it is if I'm really insane enough to try it...... lol |
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