Dusty Attic Carousel

WARNING: Pic heavy....

I have spent a few weeks working on this Carousel...

1 Dusty Attic Carousel + Prima Papers + Inspiration + a bit of time and this is the result....

Yes, there is a lot of detail... and no the photos really don't do it justice! 

Those who know me, know I like the shabby/distress look, and this is definately it. I decided on a old carousel, and with the open space in the middle, I added in a couple of swings (one broken), and flowers and some mushrooms (made from airdry clay). 

I also wanted to add in a little music box which I then hid under the ticket box... I mean what's a carousel ride without music and a ticket box?

The hardest part, was actually trying to get it all put together as I did each panel and the inside of the while it was all in it's separate pieces.

I have to say I do love how it has come out...!

Winter...

As some of you are aware, after I finished my winter house for the set of music boxes, I decided I didn't like it... lol

So I've now redone it...



I liked the blue one I did for my niece, so went with the same colour scheme for winter...




And I did a little tweaking with the other houses and now I can say that I've finished the set completely!



I'm happy with the final result... what do you think?

It was my niece's birthday in April and I told her I would make her one of the houses with a music box in it for her birthday.
After finally tracking down a music box, this week I got her house done.
She wanted it like the Autumn house I made, but I made her a blue one.
And this one plays Wish Upon a Star.... it seemed appropriate.








And here are some detail pics...









I hope she likes it (it will be travelling to her this weekend), but I know I can post it here as I know she doesn't visit here... so shhhhhh.....

And the other frosty morning taking some rubbish out I spotted this red rose covered in dew... so I just had to pull out the camera and getting a couple of shots...

Happy dance, happy dance....

DS1 was today selected for the Great Southern Regional hockey team.... woohoo... so proud of him!
He's worked so hard for it and now succeeded.... woohoo....

Ok... onto more mundane things... I've finally finished my seasons houses...

So without further ado... here is Winter...



and some details...





Winter plays Over the Rainbow... and yes... I have glitter EVERYWHERE!

And here are all 4 houses together!




I have some tweaking to do, but overall I'm happy with them!

Now to just find another music box to make one for a present... can't find one locally any more! typical Esperance!

It's Autumn!

and to celebrate I would like to present the Autumn Music Box House...



which plays La Vie en Rose....
(ok not really an autumn song, but it was chosen by default...)

and here are some detail pics...






I never had any clear idea for this one up until I really started thinking about working on it...
We don't really have a fall as such with the falling leaves, etc, here in WA, so it wasn't until I started thinking about autumn being the season of harvest for fruit and vegies that I came up with this idea.
The apples and pumpkin were a lot of fun to make, messy to paint, but turned out well I think.

the hardest bit was the fence... I was going to do a brick fence but it just would not work, so I neded up with a picket fence again... a bit different to spring though and this one has a letterbox...

I still have to work out where to put the name of the house somewhere but... any suggestions?..

unless I put a sign on the fence....

Waltzing Matilda

The boys didn't know this song... now they do! I actually made them read it from a book of Banjo Patterson I have!

It goes with my summer music box house... and what's more summer than an Aussie Summer!



The roof and the windmill were the most fun. A lot of work but it was worth it. I couldn't get a windmill locally so I printed out a pic, traced it onto chipboard and then handcut it.
To get the rusted tin look, I painted the roof and the windmill silver, sprayed with leather glimmermist, dabbed with copper and black then wiped them off, then sprayed again with the glimmermist.
I think it was well worth the work.

Here are some detail pics...





And of course this one plays Waltzing Matilda!!!!

The flowers might be a bit much, but I like the colour... what do you think?