Today's Experiment

Today I am experimenting with this recipe: Torn toilet paper, wallpaper adhesive and sand. I mixed these three things together to make a paste like paper mache.


I crumpled some aluminum foil, added my "paste," covered it with wax paper and rolled it out flat with my rolling pin. I want to have one side textured and the other side smooth.


Now I wait. I don't know how long this might take to dry? Days maybe? I don't know if it will even hold together?


What I am hoping to do is take the dried "paper" and cut it into what I hope will look like cement blocks or stone. I may need to add glue to the recipe or use a different kind of paper?



Here is another recipe I may try. I didn't have all of the ingredients needed for this one today.

I'll let you know if this works? If it doesn't, I will show you that too. :}

Fireplace

The glue isn't even dry but I wanted to show you the beginning of my "custom made" fireplace.

I cut wood for the fire box and painted it black. Now I'm gluing on little sand paper bricks.

This is going to take a while...

Later - Here's the work in progress. Nothing is glued together. I just wanted to see how it was going to look. Still lots to do here.



Hope you are having a good day!
Blessings, Kathi

Monopoly Anyone?

I was thinking that maybe I can use some of the pieces from my old monopoly game in my dollhouse?


I found some Playdoh this morning. I also have some little bricks from days gone by and a whole lot of wooden blocks that my kids used to play with! I know I have some Lincoln Logs too.

Maybe I should get in that toy cabinet and see what else is in there?! I knew there was a reason I've been saving these things for all these years!

Wouldn't it be fun to make a Monopoly village? I can see a jail, a waterworks building, a parking lot, a railroad... Then there could be all of those mini houses with cool addresses!

Sweet dreams!
Kathi