Welcome to my world!

OK.  So Cat and I decided that I needed a webpage.  I’ve been tossing the idea around a lot lately, but know next to nothing about setting up a blog or website.  Guess it’s time to learn! 

 I need to find a way to get my miniatures and craft items on the web.  Being jobless is demoralising to say the least.  I love teaching, but the classes are not consistent enough yet and the attendance at this point is not big enough to create an income stream.  It’s early days, I’ll get there, but I need to market my minis properly.  Hopefully this will help.

 All I know is art.  I’ve done so many different things – scrapbooking, polymer clay art, painting, box making, decoupage, pottery and ceramic painting, teddy bear making, dolls house miniatures, beading, jewelry and so much more. Every aspect of art fascinates me – there’s so much to learn.  I’ll never make a living from painting – too eccentric according to my friend!  I’ll stick to set and stage design – the size of the canvas suites me!  Pottery and ceramics are physically no longer do-able, so that route has been closed, but where one door closes another opens.  If I had to choose only one medium it would have to be polymer clay.  I love the way it feels in my hands and the way I can shape it to create a myriad of different items.  From tiny dollshouse items to dolls and tiles and beads.  It’s really limitless – except for curing.  Can’t go bigger than a domestic oven!

My speciality is dolls house miniatures – the food!  I love the authenticity that goes with reproducing an exact scale image of the real thing.  That’s collectors dolls houses, not the childrens play scale dolls house.  Polymer clay is ideally suited to the minute details miniature food.  The time period of the house is so important as well when it comes to food.  Many ingredients were not available at various points in history or where only available in certain countries.  Some foods were the province of the wealthy, while the peasantry ate totally different foods.  Whether the cooking was done indoors or out, if there were ovens or open griddles, what did industrial development and world exploration do for food and produce …. all these are factors that need to be taken into account when doing the research into a project.  That satisfies my passion for history.

 With this page I’m hoping to share my love of arts and crafts with you.  I’ll be setting up a shopping cart eventually and sharing photos, sites I find interesting or helpful and hopefully also setting up on-line tutorials for like minded artists.  Welcome to my world!