Severus Snape'e snake book ;)

Lucky me! Oh,no! I forgot again: Lucky Snape!:D Look what postman brought me.. ee.. him today! A parcel from Ira!

This great book with snake on it's cover is going to just adorn his office! And so is the rest of books and notebooks Ira generously sent us. Girl, you are much too good for me!:D I love them all and they all will be placed in the office! The snake's book is my absolute favourite!:D Thank you sooooooooo much Ira!:)

My purchases from Lorraine home!:D

This is fun!:D I was reading Debbie's of Tiny Treasures post about beautiful wands made by our very talendet Ira and Ira's post about her purchases from DFLY Creations, around noon today, not knowing that somehow my next post will be related to these two posts when I come back home ;)
And when I did I found a parcel with my purchases from lovely Lorraine of DFLY Creations! Lately Lorraine made a number of great wands and boxes and thanks to her kindness I was lucky to buy these three wonderful creations! She even made one wand more of already sold ones specially for me:)


Thank you Lorraine! The wands and the box are just simply beautiful!

And welcome to all my new Followers! It's 153 now! WOW! Hope you all will have fun here! :)

Still Water

I was once asked by Ascension if I am going to fill the jars in with some liquid too. Well, the truth is, in my country it is really hard to get many things one can make minis from, so naturally I couldn't find any liquid fimo or scenic water here. But looking through the hobbycraft's websites I found a shop in my city with all the things one needs to build electric mini railways and trains together with all the views around. That's how I found something called Still Water. It is used by minitrain's lovers to make small ponds, waterfalls and rivers. They wrote on the bottle, the liquid should extend and level by itself and dry to hard non sticky crystal finish within 24 hours. I thought I will give it a try.

First I put some of orchid's dry offshoots to the jar and filled 2/3 of it with the liquid in.

48 hours later it still didn't dry. I left it for some more time thinking that there maybe some chemical reaction between the liqiud and natural offshoots.
But in the meantime I tried once more, this time with the jar fully filled with the black pepper seeds. I poured the liquid in and 12 hours later I was surprised because it dried completely! So I knew I must put more of offshoots to the first jar. I did. The liquid dried soon!

Next I tried it with the tadpoles I made of airdrying clay. I was a bit affraid if they could melt in this liquid. Still I put them to the jar, filled the jar just a little bit above the tadpoles with Still Water in and waited. And waited. I saw the tail of the tadpole on the top is broken but the liquid finally started to dry. After two days it dried!

But a few days later I saw this in the jar!

A whirlpool! Lol! I put the jar up side down and thought the liquid would level itself. But it didn't. So I put the jar back as it should be. Luckily nothing more is going on with the tadpoles and the liquid so far.

The conclusion: Still Water is a good liquid for flat, shallow and even areas. It wrappes aroud things instead of fullfilling the dish.
I will give it a try with really small bottles and see if it will be drying better and faster there.

The laboratory table changes

This is the first table I've got for Snape's office. I bought it unpainted for there is more fun with it then.;) This is one of the tables everybody says it looks so small and one cannot put many things on the top of it. And later it appears one can put a lot of stuff there.;) This is the trial arrangement of laboratory bottles and papers that I photographed around....two years ago - I am slow worker really ;)

You've already seen this photo before but this is how the table looked when first painted and in this stage it spent these years in the box.

Later the idea of how the table should look like changed. I admitted the table is quite small and decided to extend it. This is how it looked with additonal table top and shelf and first layers of a new paint.

And this is how it looks right now
I am really pleased with it now.

Although, you know me...the table is not finished yet I am affraid. ;)I am planning one more change.

I will show it to you once I figure out how to do this thing.:)

The ears for Nina ;) The candles for Snape:)

Today the postman brought me these beautful Magic Spell Candles for Severus!I bought them from DFLY Creations at their Etsy shop. And I also got a gift, can you see it?:) The candles are just fab! They will be perfect in the office:). Thank you, Lorraine, for them and for the gift!:)

Now about that ears. They of course are not for Nina but she wanted to see them so here they are. One is heavly crushed - te owner probably didn't want to give it away without a fight;)

A fish, a frog and a snake :)

That just means my first trials with the air drying clay. I have to admit I am somehow affraid of using a clay although I love the things, specially minis made of all sorts of clays:) Still it was an interesting experience. I started with some medieval pottery but the result was just a disaster ;) Still I didn't give in yet. I've heard so many times about the shrinkage of this clay which made me very happy because I was thinking it will be perfect for jar's fulfillment. But it appears my clay just doesn't shrink at all or not much really. Or - and most probably - I made the minis too big so the clay couldn't just shrink THAT much;) So here they are: a fish
A frog or I should say Neville's toad (finally killed by his potions'skills;)) in a Douglas sample container as it was too fat for Avon's jar;)
And a snake which didn't shrink at all that's why it looks so strange and doesn't look like a snake at all.
I made a pair of ears and three tadpoles too but don't know yet if I will use them somewhere in the office :) I think I might give a try to that clay one day:)

Gifts for Ira, Nina and a question for Sans

First of all a very warm welcome to my new Followers! Glad you are here! And I hope you will have fun!:)

Ira wrote she is not patient when it comes to surprises so I decided to make a pre-view of what I will be sending to her hopefully on Monday.:) Dear Ira, these little things are from me to say thank-you for your good heart and for all the fun I have here - I hope you have it too ;)(If, or I should write: when ;)you decide to make HP house I can collect some Avon's jars for you too if you wish ;)) First of all you (or I should say most probably the skellies) will get these three very simple old books

From left to right we have here:
1. The cook book - "Imagine: how to make something to eat from the very bony beef"
2. The cook book - "Imagine: how to make something to eat from the very husky fish"
3. No, that is not a cook book it is a...family album!;)
Of course Ira you can name the books the way you wish. You should see the sale's man in the shop - I just loved the look on his face when I asked only for the skulls and bones.;)And as I visit the shop often lately he still asks me what I have done to that stuff:D Now there are a few minis more for you Ira:)

There is a top hat for Mr Poe - this one is made just of paper (right for the dead man I think;))I thought he may need something more clean when he is going on the date with this lady or ladies? (I can't recognize;)) Hope you will like the minis! :)
Now move on to dear Nina. You didn't say yes and you didn't say no my dear ;) so I am sending these little things for your future pub and a white-blue room. Hope you will like them:)
And a question for dear Sans: would you like something like these books?
Now I am off to bed. Good night:)

For fun:)

Welcome to my new Followers! Hope you will have fun here:)

Yesterday Jana who makes beautiful books, left me a comment under the post about The Poor Books. This way she brought them back to me and today I spent the whole morning trying to make a book like the ones in that post in 1:12 scale. Here it is what I came up with - a loud laugh welcome! :D In case nobody knows what it is - it is supposed to be a skull;) This is the other site of the book. I treated it with a fire as you can see ;) I don't know what I will do with it yet and don't know if I try to make another one. I have a feeling I should leave it to the artists we have aroud the blogland;)

The homemade cauldron;)

I promissed to show you the Toffifee cauldron ready. Here it is: glued with two bowls together, painted and hanging over the ashes. What I like about it, is the fact it has four handles;) The ashes are made of brick's cement and painted grey, black and gold;) Still think if Sev should have a fire there....

The cauldron is quite big so Severus will use it for the large amount of potion - maybe enough through the whole school year for Lupin?;)

The Child's Day.

In my country we celebrate the Child's Day today. And I am feeling like one because the postman has brought a package with my purchases from our very talented Nikki!
Beautiful, aren't they?:) And Nikki kindly enclosed the potion jar as a gift for me!:)Thank you so much Nikki! I love all the minis but the olde bones are my absolut favourite I love all the detailes!
It is such a perfect work! Just look at the skellington... ups!;) skeleton atlas at the bottom!
I was looking at these minis and thinking about the comments we exchanged with Ira today and I have more and more clear idea or maybe ;)two for the next project/s I was thinking of wizard's shoppe(possible kind of a supermarket ;)) with everything that a witch or a wizard needs - including fav of Snape's black magic ;) and/or a shed/a house for only Severus black magic stuff:)

Today is a good day!:) I finally found something just perfect for Ira. But you, my Dear, will have to wait until I make myself sit down and work on this one ;)Promiss it won't be THAT long ;)