Fun Food

Acorn caps make nice individual salad dishes.  
Fill with snipped greens cut from plastic Christmas decorations, 
add tiny red bits for tomato and drizzle with clear nail polish 
to hold it together. 
Cut slices of a white straw for onions.

For potato chips -- dry the seeds from green peppers.

To make chip dip - mix white glue with baking soda till it holds
its shape in the bowl, swirl the top a bit and sprinkle with a 
bit of crushed dried parsley.

Small plates and bowls from tea light holders.

Chris in Canada writes:
Use a paper punch to cut shapes from the thin metal cups that tea lights come in.
Then use a ball stylus to indent the centre to form a plate or shallow bowl. (I put the piece on a cutting mat and just go round and round with the stylus until the it is the way I want it.
The harder you press, the deeper the indentation. Flip it over and smooth the rim from below if it has curved upwards due to the pressure of the stylus. Fluted rims can be made by indenting the flutes using the tip of a table knife BEFORE you work on the indentation.
Finish with gloss paint or nail polish for porcelain, or burnish with a medium metal stylus or round end of a metal crochet hook to make pewter plates.

Champagne Chairs

Design within Reach Champagne Chair Contest
http://www.dwr.com/display.do?ruleID=101077


Make a Little Chair out of a Champagne Cork Holder - More DIY How To Projects

Baby Trunk

http://jasminasnoussi.web-log.nl/

Bekka had a trunk just like this as a child, pink with silver trim, housing her favorite doll in it with all her dolly things. She plans to make a mini one just like it.
This will go in the little girl's room in Bekka's dollhouse. It will have a cradle, trunk, high chair, things a little girl would use to play house with her doll.

Tanya's minidoll blog has a kit and video tutorials for the trunk and the tinny doll to go in it..
http://taynasminidolls.blogspot.com/2008/08/miniature-doll-tutorial-part-1-2-3.html

http://taynasminidolls.blogspot.com/2008/07/vintage-trunk-tutorial-part-1.html

December Swap

The December " Stock the Kitchen" swap. More pictures are in the Little Roomers Group photo album. Barb, Dolores, Carolyn, Janice and Jaime made this swap a lot of fun! Thanks gals!

Pill Bottle Platters

Chris from Canada says:
I save prescription pill bottles for shipping, storing small items and keeping custom mixed paints fresh until I finish a project. I was about to toss one of those"childproof" bottles (the push down and turn style) that I had used for mixing and storing some textured paint,when I took a good look inside the lid. A quick slip and flip with the tip of my craft knife, and out popped a 1.25" diameter serving platter, just right for serving up a large ham (or a roast Head of Hag ) with veggies, or a big plate of Christmas cookies. I checked out my stash and came up with .75" and 1" sizes, as well as a whopping 2" one, which would be the perfect container for a shallow planter or small reflecting pool for a patio scene.

Interesting Finds

Chris from Canada was in Cuba and found this mini at one of the Artex stores.

She says: "It is a lovely hand-made representation one corner of the style of home one sees
in the Camaguey area of Cuba, complete with one of the clay jars they used to use to
collect rainwater before water began to be piped in to this arid region.
The maker is an older woman named Minerva whose husband makes wood items for the tourist trade, and she uses his
wood scraps as well as anything else she can scrounge to make her scenes. Does this
sound familiar to anyone? :-D"