this week at the bazaar!

It's Friday already?!?!?! Where does the week go?! I feel like just yesterday I post last week's wrap up!

Oh well! Lately there is always something going on at the Bazaar so let's get to it!

1.) Today I tried my hand at making a butterfly cane! Not only was it more complicated than I expected, it took forever! Haha!

This wasn't just something random, either. There is a shop that opened up in town called The Blu Butterfly. I met the owner some time ago through Etsy when I was playing around with Etsy shop banners and stuff. I made her a whole branding package and we have still ~kinda~ kept contact over this whole time.

Anyways, I made this cane so that I could make some earrings and pins and maybe even some charms or beads - all for The Blu Butterfly! This is actually the practice cane, but I am gonna make some example pieces with it so I can go show the owner and see what she thinks!

These almost look like drawings to me... which makes me like them even more!

I still want to play around with what I can do with the cane. Like I said before: earrings, pins, beads, charms, magnets (?).... Anyone have any other ideas?

2.) I also practiced my pumpkins this week! (Shout-out to Jenny who loves pumpkins!) I made them different colors other than orange because I want to have a wider variety this year than I did last year - I can't wait to start on Autumn minis!

3.) We also can't forget about my little watermelons! Which, by the way are listed HERE in my Etsy shop.

4.) There was also the Ombre Cakes and Sprinkle Cakes from the beginning of the week!

5.) I also have been practicing on some fruit! I am having a lot of fun with these, most likely because I have never made many fruits before- so you can expect some fruits to be listed in the Etsy shop soon! Haha! But only after I am happy with how everything looks. In this next image I was playing around with the translucency, hue, and size of each fruit.

6.) I also got a request on Etsy for a set of custom cake boxes. The customer wanted a teal box with little white stars- here is what I came up with!

7.) I know I already made one point about the fruit, but one thing I am SUPER happy with is my blueberries and the little basket! I can't wait to make more of these and have them sitting on my produce stand!

8.) I cut my hair! Yes, by "I cut my hair" I mean I CUT IT MYSELF. I don't know how practical it is, but I prefer to cut it myself because I hate going to the barber JUST to get almost all my hair cut off and thrown away. I know this is kinda irrelevant... but... it still happened this week! Hahaha!

UGH. Notice the little lock of hair over on the side. Hey.. I said I cut it, I didn't say anything about brushing it. HAHAHA. Also, I am beginning to hate the color of my room. I love green and brown and it suited me when I painted it a few months ago, but I am ready for something different. Something lighter. Maybe a project for the coming week!? :D

Well, that's all for now! I hope you enjoyed today's post!

Until next time!

xoxoxo

-Blake

Working all over the place!

Being able to work on miniatures again has turned me into a madman. Not only have been I been making a lot of new stuff, I have been all over the place doing so! (As the title suggests.) Here you can see that I went back and painted the rest of the brick wall. I ended up painting over ALL of the red, and I did it with white. I felt like this helped with the look i was going for. Oh! Don't mind the brick column in the middle of the house. lol. That is from the front porch because I can't find the actual posts that are supposed to go here! :O *SHAME ON ME*

Below you can see some "swatches" from the house so far. You have the brick wall, the wallpaper, and then a close-up of the kitchen floor!

TADA! I really love how this came out. I think it was all of the layers that went into it. I started off with washes of greys, browns, and cream colors. Somewhere along the way, if you look close- you can see the TINY crackles in the tile. I am going to try to recreate this look for some other things because it is actually VERY realistic and would be great for miniature pottery!

Another thing that was on my wish-list of things to try was mini crochet! :D :D :D The picture below is of the materials I am using now, but I think I will have to go down to even smaller materials if I am going to make anything closer to what I think is the right scale. (Key words- "what I think.")

And then when have the cakes! MUAHAHAHA! Okay, I know I make a lot of cakes, but I have a special places in my heart for cakes. My heart... and... my stomach. :) These are going to be bases for a line of cakes I will *hopefully* be coming out with soon. :) 

And then here is the other tidbits I have been making! You have oranges, breads, watermelons, and blueberries. I am especially proud of the bag the oranges are in. It was such a random coincidence that I had the materials in the house and then knew exactly how I wanted to make the bag. The stars aligned- I would say. :)

Well, that's it for today! Thanks for stopping by! I will hopefully have SOMETHING complete soon, rather than constantly starting new things. Hehehe... what can I say? :)

xoxoxo

-Blake