About this blog:


Welcome to my blog about my dollhouse and miniatures hobby. Here, you will find information on items I have made, bought, and sold, as well as some resources on where to find some really cool stuff! Feel free to browse around and follow my blog!

Thursday, February 23, 2012

Landscaping the Herb Shop

Well, I was feeling crafty today and decided to take some time after work to go to Hobby Lobby and look around for inspiration. I picked up some mini shells and Paper Clay. But I had a plan in my mind to finish the sidewalk to the herb shop...and that's what I did tonight.

Before:

With the sidewalk I previously made:

The sidewalk was okay but it wasn't really doing anything for me. So last night I looked up pictures of stone gardens and found some pictures of flagstones laid along a gravel path, kinda like the 4th picture from the bottom on this website. So  I thought that would look cool in front of the herb shop.

So this is what I did....


I took some paperclay and made some round stones - I actually made 5 of these of varying shapes and sizes. Then I painted them with acrylic paints in brown, transparent red oxide and bits of white. I also added some very small pieces of model railroad shrubbery as pieces of moss in the stone.



Above, I was waiting for glue to dry, so in the meantime, I hung my "Herbs" sign I got at Earth N' Tree.


I really want to make a shop sign for the herb shop and will add that someday (hopefully soon!).  Anyway, once the flagstones were glued down, I laid down some Tacky Glue in areas around and between the stones where I wanted the path to cover. Then I sprinkled these awesome little black stones I found at A.C. Moore a while back. Here's the result:





I am pretty pleased with the result! I plan to add a lot of plants and flowers to this scene, but  I am finally happy with the sidewalk. Currently, I have coffee grounds drying in the oven for soil. Not sure what I am going to do with it, but I have been consulting my copy of Frieda Gray's Making Miniature Gardens for ideas. We have a ton of tissue paper left over from Christmas, so those may become flowers soon! :)

7 comments:

  1. Great stone sidewalk, and that dog is so cute!

    ReplyDelete
  2. Thanks! I actually got that dog when my boyfriend ordered from Small Dog Electronics (http://www.smalldog.com/). They send tiny toy dogs with every order!!! :)

    ReplyDelete
  3. I loved the sidewalk and the little vegetation.

    ReplyDelete
  4. Oh I love it, and the dog is so cute! XD

    ReplyDelete
  5. The sidewalk is great and the little dog is very cute!
    Hugs

    ReplyDelete
  6. A great makeover, those black stones are spectacular!

    Greetings
    Birgit

    ReplyDelete
  7. The stones are fantastic. I like the little dog.
    Bye Faby

    ReplyDelete

LinkWithin

Related Posts with Thumbnails