Nutcracker Sweet

Once upon a time, I came upon this sweetfaced doll at a garage sale. Then I came across these nutcrackers at the $ store. Hmmmm.......

The little lady was somewhat strangely bulky around the waist. And once her clothes came off, what did appear! Gee, aren’t there smaller music boxes?

So to reshape and dress.

Then sit her in a dome to admire her nutcracker.

Before and After Gazebo

Now how great a garage sale find is this for 25 cents!

I had some small scale figures in my stash, a couple of trees, and a large cake container, and this is how it ended up. The base is foam core cut to fit the container, lawn is a mix of paper mache, sawdust, glue and paint. The bushes are moss, dabbed with glue and sprinkled with flocking. The walk is paper mache, painted after it dried.

And then the cake containers for storage....a nice little project, kept me busy and out of trouble for a week!

Garage Sale roombox and fish

I scored a wonderful prize at the NOTL Pumphouse sale - a roombox just the right size to fit some items from my stash. Can you believe the price? I left the tag on so you can see.
Here is how it started out.

Here is the finished product. I have had the potbellied stove forever, as well as the checkers table. Printed and framed Canadian themed posters from the net. The upper attic gave me a chance to use more items from my stash...

The fish trophy was made from a $store package of fish shapes meant for scrap booking, I think. See the little fish on the label? That is how they started out.

Not too bad, eh?