New miniatures - tables, scales

[nid_dabeille]

My local doll house store is closing!  I grew up there!  At least, I guess I started going there when I was about 13, and now I'm nearly 30, so it's been my store for a while.  Though there were several missing years when I went away to college.  As a teenager I used to take workshops there.  I learned how to make fimo/sculpey food, I made a wicker sofa, a gazebo, a dogwood tree...  They were so much fun.

Anyway, now it's closing because the owner's retiring, and therefore things are on SALE.  So I finally bought my scales!  My scales!  The Nantasy Fantasy scales!  Which I yearned for and loved so much, which swept me off my feet, and which I used to visit every time I was in the store!  They're mine.  No one else would have loved them like I do.  They're mine, and I will give them to the miniature invisible Dr. Maturin.  Even if they're unsuitable for life aboard a man o' war.

I also bought a beautiful table by CJ's Miniatures.  It's very simple, but it's so fine that the Bespaq things I looked at seemed chunky.  Though they were still tempting... but I find that I'm more drawn to simple things rather than the frilly fancy elegant rich Bespaq things.

And I also have a picture of my surgery table.  It was an unfinished table I bought and stained and distressed.  It was fun.  I thwacked it and gouged it, sanded edges, rubbed grime all over it, and...  ok, this may sound mad, but I cut my finger while working on it, so I dabbed blood on the table top.  It's very subtle, so you can't see it in the picture, and it's just a small spot.  But it's like my signature.  I'll spread the mini tools across it in the sickbay.  (No, there won't be an amputation scene.)  And I do know that a naval surgeon would often lash together the midshipmen's sea chests for an operating table, but in the movie of M&C they have a trestle table.  And it looks nicer in miniature than a bunch of vague sea chests.)

So here, pictures.

Dining table for the captain's small dining room.


Distressed sickbay table
 

 
linked at doll_houses and little_world .
 

Comments

[ozfille]

cut my finger while working on it, so I dabbed blood on the table top. It's very subtle, so you can't see it in the picture, and it's just a small spot. But it's like my signature.

A wee bit primitive methinks but certainly an age old practice of marking your ownership of an object by applying bodily fluids to it. *g*

So there will eventually a whole set of pictures once you have completed the set up your naval surgeon's cabin/dispensary and your captain's cabin I assume?

[grace-poppy.livejournal.com]

Of course! Currently my sickbay is sporting shiny copper tapewire, though. It needs a paintjob and beams and lights installed, and I don't want to give any spoilers of how it will look! Not till it's ready.

[hoosier-red.livejournal.com]

Sympathies on the shop closing, but at least you got the tres nifty scales! And I love what you did to the surgery table -- very realistic.

[grace-poppy.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Yeah, I'm dismayed about the shop closing, but at least there's the internet these days, which is actually where I get more of my stuff.

[esteven]

I hope there will be another nice shop not too far away.

Congrats on the table. It looks nifty. Though two seachests lashed together and covered with a piece of stained cloth would also look good. ;D

[grace-poppy.livejournal.com]

I don't know where another shop is at all. I've only read about one that's several hours away, but oh well, I can still shop on the internet.

Thank you!

[sharpiefan.livejournal.com]

It all looks wonderful and I can't wait to see it all put together.

[grace-poppy.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[obeliamedusa.livejournal.com]

Oooh, those look great! And you're right, the table looks perfect for surgery--nice and sturdy. ;)

[grace-poppy.livejournal.com]

Thank you! And I'm so excited that I have some expensive artisan pieces! I feel all grown up. :D

[ladybugjo.livejournal.com]

I love the scales! They're so wee and fun.

[grace-poppy.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I love them too. They're extremely delicate and so beautiful.

[martiw.livejournal.com]

Oh I want those scales!!!

[grace-poppy.livejournal.com]

:D But they're mine, all miiiiiine! (Unless you order them online.)

[lunagypsy.livejournal.com]

The distressed table is lovely! And the scales look perfect for what you are doing:)

[grace-poppy.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I find that I just love distressing things.

And yes, those scales were just DESTINED to come home with me! I love them.

[materia-indigo.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry to hear that your local miniature store is closing. At least you made some nice finds! I really like the distressed sick bay table.

[grace-poppy.livejournal.com]

Thank you! It was fun to distress!

[kestrelhill.livejournal.com]

The scales are exquisite! Of course Stephen needs them!

[grace-poppy.livejournal.com]

Well I know he would WANT them. I wasn't sure before whether he would have scales quite like that, or if he'd be more likely to just have ones that hang from a hook. I think the hanging ones would actually be more accurate, but these are just so EXQUISITE - plus I would have had to make the hanging ones myself, and they wouldn't have been nearly so nice.

[larimoon.livejournal.com]

There isn't a decent dolls house shop anywhere near me, it's very sad - I drag Mum to any fairs I see advertised!

Those scales are absolutely fab

[grace-poppy.livejournal.com]

Alas, there aren't even any fairs near me. My local dollhouse shop that's closing used to sponsor big events, but that was back when it was under different owners. I think the new owners decided it was too much for them to handle. I miss those fairs. They were SOOO magical (especially since I was only about 15 and had never seen such wonders before, and there was no internet shopping yet).

[ldhenson.livejournal.com]

Yay for you for getting the scales at last!

That table looks very cool, great job on the distressing. I guess great art really is blood, sweat, and tears!

[grace-poppy.livejournal.com]

Thanks! :D

[nightkate.livejournal.com]

I've been a silent reader of your journal for a few months and I really enjoy seeing the progress in mini-Stephens world (my favourites are his laudanum bottles). Excellent work!
I wish I was good at anything of that kind.

[grace-poppy.livejournal.com]

Well thank you very much! I've made him a huge carboy of laudanum too, to make sure he doesn't run out.

[nightkate.livejournal.com]

Now you forced me to look up "carboy"...
But Stephen can quit the laudanum anytime he wants, you know he can. ;)

[grace-poppy.livejournal.com]

Of course he can! But why should he? It's a perfectly useful and beneficial physic!