Latch Hook Rugs

Hi
I have completed my dog rug. I am very pleased with this one.

I have been back to Hobbycraft and found another animal one. This time it is a horse.

It contains the wool or yarn,

the canvas,

and the instructions.

This kit also contains the latch hook itself although not all kits do. This only really matters when you are buying one for the first time or need a special size.
I'll let you see how it turns out.

Stickers

Hi
When I was out at the week end I saw some stickers for wheelie bins. I thought they would look good on my cupboards. I already have a couple of cat stickers I purchased from B&Q months ago.

Some Disney stickers I bought a couple of weeks ago.

Finally a bird cage I got last week. This one came as multiple pieces that had to be put together.

I think they cheer the room up but will have to stop buying them since I am running out of space.
Any way here is the most recent pack.

In this one the individual pieces needed cutting out.

Here is the finished arrangement on the cupboard door.

Hamma Beads

Hi
To solve the problem of the curvature of the base of the pictures I found it necessary to leave them on the board much longer while ironing. This gave much better results but tended to destroy the pegs on the boards.
I used to enjoy playing a game called Battle of Olympus and so decided to produce some of the icons from the game. If you played the game you might recognise these.

Hawks that dropped stones on the hero's head.

This is the hero.

                                                            

This is one of the old men the hero had to talk to inside one of the houses.

Here are some of the snakes from a cave. The later snakes were red.

Here are Zeus and a messenger.

Here is the hero with the princess he has to rescue.

I hope you enjoyed these. I will show you my two favourites from this set next time.

Fairies

Hi
I have been collecting Preiser figures for a while now. I particularly enjoy looking at winged creatures and picked up some fairy figures from Model Zone.
I found a tub that had once held an assortment of bath oils etc. in which to make a scene. The top is a bit cumbersome but it will keep the dust out.
I wanted to include something to give scale so I looked for a tree. Unfortunately the only ones I could find were on the small side for what I needed. I decided to make my own and ended up using Woodland Scenics 'plaster cloth'. I wet it and wrapped it around a newspaper shape and I think it worked reasonably well. The rough texture once painted gave a fair representation of bark.

I covered the base with grass paper and added a few pebbles and a few polystyrene balls. The purple fluff was claimed to represent woodland flowers but I wasn't totally convinced on that point. I think it works better when viewed from the distance.

Anyway I glued one of the seated fairies to the tree root and the other to the branch.

One of the standing fairies I hung from the branch to try and make her appear to be flying. I think this has worked quite well. The thread is practically invisible from a distance.

The second standing fairy I had to attach to a base since, as you can see here, she kept falling over. I used a small piece of clear plastic so that it wouldn't be too noticeable.

The third standing one I glued onto a pebble.

Finally I added a figure of a photographer to help make the fairy figures the right size along with the tree that I used as a bush.

I think it has worked quite well and am pleased with the result.