{Mermaid Cove Cottage} Getting Ahead Of Myself.....

Somehow, even though I didn't sleep well last night and woke up kind of dehydrated and really not feeling like doing much of anything, I still ended up spending most of my day running all over the place... I'd call it running errands, but most of it wasn't strictly completely necessary, I did actually need to go to Walmart, and most of the rest of it at least started out as getting things for Easter, so it was kind of errands..... But anyway, one of my stops (well actually 2 because when I went first thing in the morning I forgot one of the things I needed from there and had to go back late in the afternoon) was Michaels.  Scrapbook papers are one of my best friends when I'm working on miniatures.... I've used them for flooring and wallpaper and all sorts of things, and Michaels always seems to have a good selection of patterns that work well for my projects (Hobby Lobby is another place I find good ones). And today they had them 7 for $1! Soooooo...

I was able to pick up several that I may be able to use for the Mermaid Cove Cottage, and possibly for the Bakery in A Cake, although I'm not 100% sure what I want to do for the floor and walls in there yet so I don't know if I'll actually be using the ones I got today or not.  The teal/aqua marble-y one that you can see under the gray striped paper will probably be getting cut into tiny strips to use in the kitchen of Mermaid Cove Cottage to make a floor similar to this one; the 8.5x11 piece of vellum that's sitting on top (it's a sea glass blue color, sorry the color is a little off I didn't have good lighting where I was taking the pic and honestly just didn't feel like going and setting it up somewhere else, please refer back to the first sentence of this post...), will be cut into itty bitty tiles for the kitchen backsplash (to look like a glass tile backsplash).  And that gray striped paper? the gray stripes from that will be cut into the mermaid scale tiles for the bathroom.

In fact..........

I already cut a few out just to get an idea of how it will look (even though I haven't even started on the structure yet). 

and of course I had to lay my little painted "vanity" up against it to get an even better idea

It's going to be awesome! And actually I don't think the tiles will be quite as tedious to cut out as I was afraid they may be.... I just used a hole punch to cut the curves, I'll need to measure to make sure they're all even when I do the ones I'm actually going to use, but it'll be a lot better than cutting them out by hand. Oh and I think I forgot to mention when I was talking about painting and fixing up this piece that I had gotten it from PrettySmallThings on Shapeways.  Check out their shop they have so many fabulous pieces, the furniture I used in my North pole Tearoom in a teapot was from them.

On a side note, I keep mentioning the tearoom and I suppose I should do a post with pictures of it on here if I'm going to keep talking about it lol

I also got some other furniture kits in for both Mermaid Cove Cottage and the Bakery in a Cake, but I'll wait unitl I have put them to together to do pictures and talk about them...