Christmas Tree Workshop in Spokane, WA

Today I will load you with the tons of images. Yesterday we had the Christmas Tree Workshop in Spokane, WA, organized by a local dollhouse meeting. More than 40 people attended it with 12 dealers.

Each participant got a tote bag with a lot of goodies and surprises and kits to decorate the Christmas Tree.

There were Door prizes, Exchange Gifts and Ruffle tickets.

Everyone worked on theirs trees. Unfortunately, I didn't, I was one of the dealers, but I will make my own Christmas tree and post an image of it later.

Vicki, the President of both Dollhouse Miniatures clubs in Spokane, WA and Cour-d-Allen, ID, was very busy and tired, and I got the feeling she didn't like me snicking around and taking pictures of her but I still did it. She did an amazing job organizing that workshop and deserves to be known.

I believe nobody completely finished the Christmas Tree, that's why I don't have any images of them. The rest of the pictures will be from the Display room, and sorry if I missed somebody's name, because some of the projects didn't have them.

This project took the first place in the Category "Dollhouse Miniatures" at the Spokane Fair this that was held in September, 2011

and was made by this wonderful lady Katie

This Christmas hutch and a Christmas room box were made by Tammi

Christmas room box by Cheryl

A project by Rosemary Shipman

Project by Michelle

Christmas room box by Marilee

Another big project by Marilee "French Bakery"

This project was made by the youngest member of a Dollhouse Miniatures club, Samantha

Big Christmas house by Danny

Oh, I forgot to mention about this dealer

it is a beautiful parrot and his helper

and the others (sorry, no names)

This is the sample of a workshop that will be held in the Fall 2012:

Haven't you got the Christmas spirit yet?

New Chairs

Today I put together a pair of chairs, I cut the parts on scroll saw, 1:12th scale. I used Mahogany and finished them with Lemon Oil. I like to use Lemon oil. Now they are drying. I am not sure if I want to make seat covers for them or not.

Have a great week!

New Project. New Rug.

Oh, no. I haven't forgotten about stitching at all. On the contrary, I've done a lot of charting lately: some rugs (Heriz, Dharrie, Navajo), some new designs for slippers and pillows. I am preparing myself for a long winter, :))) This design, something simple, has been charted by me for my new future project, something in Gothic style. I started stitching it at the beginning of September and I am using 40 count silk gauze and Gutermann silk. It MUST be completed at the end of October.

Rocking Chair and shelves

I've been busy working on my scroll saw lately. I have had a lot of pieces to cut. Today I put together a rocking chair

and a couple of shelves from maple

One shelf was finished with lemon oil

another, in a Shabby chick style

As for a rocking chair, at the last moment I decided to age it

... more to come...

my favorite toy

New October Project

September is almost over and I've been thinking about starting a new project. Since Halloween is coming, I decided to make a scene that will be named "Three sisters". For this project I needed a wood base. So during last week I had been cutting wood base and since I have had some different pieces of wood I made couple of them. It's not like I haven't had anything else to do but cut wood bases. I practiced my skills working with a table saw, router. I also tried different types of finishing on the wood. As a result, now I have a pile of nicely cut and nicely finished square, rectangular and round wood bases of different sizes. Some of them I am planning to use for my future projects, some of them I will list on my Etsy store ScarletSails in a case if you need one too.

A House in Art Nouveau style from a Scratch

If you haven't started following Victoria's blog yet, then it is just perfect time to do it. Victoria is building a house in Art Nouveau style from a scratch. The shell has been put together already. Victoria is full of new ideas and it is very interesting to follow the process. Have a look:

http://inchscaled.com/

The Winner of the Fall Giveaway 2011 is....

I want to thank sincerely everyone who participated in both of my giveaways and have become my new followers. I enjoined visiting your blogs and reading your stories a lot. I hope it didn't bother you to answer the questions I offered to you. It is such a great feeling to know that, inspite of all problems we have, we still keep smiling. I wish all your dreams come true one day! Unfortunately, I can't give $1,000.000 to each of you. Unfortunately, there is only one winner in this Giveaway, but I am sure that we all will be happy for that person.

THE WINNER OF THE FALL GIVEAWAY 2011 IS...

!!! T O R R E S R O S E L L !!!

http://minisrose.blogspot.com/

Please, contact me at scarletsails@live.com (I need your physical address).

For those who liked the furniture, you can find it at my on-line store:
http://www.scarletsailsminiatures.com/shopnow.html?page=shop.browse&category_id=16

Thanks a gain and have a nice weekend!