First Half Scale Chair, 2 More To Go!

I wanted to put the first chair up for you all to see. I am working on a different "leather" technique, this "leather" needs not to look so old. I hope it works out. If it does, I'll share it with you all. Kris

Iris from Charlotte

First of all I have to answer Ira, I have never heard of such a thing. But all animals are different. We had a dog that would remove the pickles from her hamburger and the black olives from her pizza. I don't know how she could eat a piece of pizza and leave the black olives, I don't even know how she could tell what the black olives were. Now, we are talking real farm dog here. She would kill a chicken from the neighbors and hide it and bring it out now and then to chew on! And she wouldn't eat pickles or black olives. I am sorry if I grossed anyone out. Good dog, though!

O.K. Iris from Charlotte. I tried the stationery thing. I went to Google Images, found a piece of stationery, right click, save image. Opened the folder that I saved it in, right click on the picture, and chose "open with", chose paint. Made sure everything was on one page by opening file and choosing "page layout". Now I clicked on the text button, double clicked where I wanted the box. I chose a font and size, larger than normal. I typed my letter. Next, I clicked on image and reduced the size of the letter by choosing resize/reskew. I would check print preview to see the size and printed a couple out to check. I was happy with what I got. I couldn't read the letter, ofcourse, but you could see the writing.
Charlotte is trying to make some pretty stationery for a French country house she is decorating. If anyone has any more ideas, correct anything I left out or where she can go to get printies for this please let her know in the comments for me.

TTYL Kris

Berries from the dogs?

Ira, what on earth do the dogs do to the berries? They don't eat them do they? When my husband weeds the garden, the donkeys, if they are on the other side of the coral start hee hawing, getting excited over the weeds they will be getting. After that they just hang their heads over the fence to receive the treats! Got a tiny egg yesterday, one of the new chickens must have started laying. Al, that's my husband, is taking out the spring garden stuff that's done and putting in the summer garden, more beans and some beets. I don't know what else he's putting in. Trying out lots of new stuff to keep without having to preserve it. Dried my onions and put them in jars to use later.
I will put pictures up of the half scale chairs when I finish them.
TTYL Kris

Just to say HI!

I am working on a set of half scale chairs, gosh this stuff is tiny! I can't imagine working any smaller. I like looking, but the making is tedious.
I have the picture of Fidg in my workroom, I don't look at it a lot, but he's there. My little chickens are grown up and out with the others. We have always had Buff Orpingtons, a heavy breed. These new chickens are Barred Rocks, a black chicken with white bars on them and not a heavy breed. So every night I have to get them some of them out of the trees. One night I left a couple in and my husband heard a ruckus and got up to find a raccoon had gotten one and took it down to the barn. He saved the chicken and I don't leave any chickens out anymore.
The donkeys are doing fine, my husband is training them to haul brush and logs for us. The logs we cut up and use for firewood, we have a wood burning furnace. They have finally settled in. The greedy behavior they had when they first arrived is gone. They know they will be petted, brushed and treated again, it's not the sanctuary where they had to compete with over 200 other horses and other assorted animals.
The blackberries are coming in and this year they are as big as your thumb. I will be putting up jelly with them.
Thank you to Dangerous Mezzo, I corrected the url for the suede paper. Have any of you tried it out?
Just checking in, TTYL Kris

How Cool Is That?!

There is an article out there about what I do on the blog! How cool is that! I would have never have thought about that, but I don't move around a lot on the net. Thank you for writing about my blog and I hope everybody that has started following me will have fun, I will try to keep it interesting.

Kris

Rug Site

Thanks to Nina for showing me how to link! I have a rug site for you to try, I like the selection, it's not large, some of the sites are too big and the rugs all begin to look alike, and the rugs copy at a large size so you don't have to loose definition enlarging them in a program. The site is:
www.woodworkersauction.com . They sell other things, but the rugs are really nice.


Remember, I use suede paper from www.dragonflyintl.com. When printing I used Windows Photo Gallery, and under paper, I chose "other specialty paper". I hope this helps for the paper jam difficulties you might have. I also gave the paper a press from the back side, paper side with a hot dry iron, not the cotton setting, the one under it. I've been doing all right with it.
I also use the paper that we use for our dollhouse ceilings, it has a plaster like texture. I buy it in a roll from wallpaper sections at the big box stores, I got mine from Menards, it's cheaper to buy it in a roll. It's the same stuff, the dollhouse supplier people buy it and cut it to sell to us. It makes nice rugs, too. Go the the blog entry, Rugs, to find out what I do to finish these off. This stuff makes great quick rugs, I spray them with a matt finish and when you glue the muslin underneath and fringe it at the ends the rugs really work in the room.

Hello To You All

I just wanted to log on to let you know that I am still here. I have just finished a custom order for a pair of Victorian Gothic wing chairs that will be going into Edgar Allan Poe's house in Finland, he's moved I believe, Ha, Ha!!
I have another custom order for half inch scale, I haven't made anything in this scale so it's going to be an experiment. This order is for the Ponderosa, yes, Pa, Adam, Hoss and Little Joe. Their house is made from Legos and is the most amazing thing I have ever seen.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaGfYusRVvE, I would make a link but I haven't been able to make one out of the Blogspot site. I don't know very much about computers.

I have a project for you and will be posting around the 20th again.

For more information on my custom work and ready-made upholstered furniture please go to CDHM.org, I am under furniture. TTYL Kris