Well, I'm much happier with this!
Per my experiment, the tiles are made of watercolor paper painted with FolkArt Milk Paint ("Pirate Black," rather unsuitably!), "glazed" with Mod Podge in the satin finish. They aren't perfect, obviously, but a great improvement on the previous attempts. The tiles are individually glued to a piece of drawing paper, pre-folded and trimmed to fit over the corners and molding, then the whole assembly glued in place. I didn't get the edges quite as flat as I would have liked, but there it is -- perhaps from a bit further away than these photos are, it won't be so apparent!
I will probably age it a bit, though not as much as the carpet shop as that is meant to look somewhat run-down, while this is "newer"! Still, it should probably have a bit of dirt here and there ...
I am amused to find that I am becoming much more nonchalant about re-making miniatures -- I wanted to put a fireplace on one wall of the tea shop, and fell in love with the shape and reasonable price (especially with a coupon!) of this Tudor-esque one --
which has a very simple-yet-handsome arch, but wasn't quite what I had seen in my mind's eye.
Not that a Georgian-ish/early-Victorian shop would originally have had an Elizabethan fireplace, of course, but let's say some recent owner of the shop was loitering around an architectural salvage yard (as one does) and came across a small one, either Elizabethan or Revival, that would fit in a tiny shop -- well, I would buy it! I didn't really care for the Houseworks fireplace's sandstone color, when what I was picturing was more limestone, like Little Moreton's above, or even better Dorney Court's, and so I decided to paint it.
The best grey I had turned out to be the same one I had used on the interior of the carpet shop, with some aging and soot in dove grey, brown, and black. I might actually put a bit more "smoke" on it.
(The pink vase looks huge, but actually it is the fireplace that is really very small -- you can tell by the relative size of the 1:12 chair!)
The tiles are great, I especially like the second photo showing the texture. The fireplace is much improved with your colour change, i.m.o.
I also loved your crochet sampler blanket - not bad for someone who 'doesn't crochet - really'. I recently had someone show me how to crochet, and it worked better than my many attempts to teach myself. The main reason was to see if it was easier on my hands than knitting. It is, but not much. I am still on straight line crochet and so admire your different shapes and stitches.
Posted by: Dawn in NL | June 08, 2020 at 01:29 AM