Saturday, 20 August 2011

BIG SHOCK -TRYING TO CATCH UP

I have been working sporadically and wrote out some of my activities and took photos but I haven't posted for almost a year! I was shocked and thought I had just made a mistake in dates but here I will try to catch up and hope to do better.

 Since my dates are not accurate I will just post here as I think of things and try to at least get things up to date.

 I took some trips to the East Coast to visit family and brought materials to work on furniture for the parlour. My efforts worked out well and I even discovered/invented some techniques. Well I hadn't seen them and they were developed by experimentation so I think I invented them.

I combed the internet for Victorian furniture at various antique sites. I saved many photos for inspiration andmy next project was to develop ways to construct fancy furniture in quarter inch scale.  The answer was that same egg carton foam I had used for brick work.

My Victorian sofa was the first (and perhaps best) of my efforts. I was able tocreate the effect of carving onthe back of the sofa and I strengthened the rest of it with filefolder car d stock and bits of wood. This is the end result.

I also worked on some chairs which turned out okay as well.  

One was an ornate white carved chair using foam, and the other was a tufted barrel chair also shaped using the bottom cup of a foam egg carton.

During this time period I also made many more pieces for the parlor. A desk and book shelf, round table and chairs for tea, and I have planned some candles that I hope to make using optic fiber. I did not photograph all of these pieces as I was working so I will post them in the parlor when that area is finished.

Posted by hilocreations at 11:36 PM EDT

Updated: Friday, 21 October 2011 4:54 PM EDT

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