Mini-room: Straw into Gold

Made for @imera in the Mini Room Swap; one of her interests was fairy tales, and I did the thing where I just started working on something and this is what it ended up.


(yes, I know that’s not actually how a spinning wheel works.)

And a few in-progress bits:
Flagstones (gel pen outlines & fill… after that I added watercolor pencil & then played with a water brush)

Haystack! (strawstack?) It’s made of garden twine, loosely crocheted into a cone, then with a whole bunch of short lengths untwisted & pulled through the base.

Egg carton wall stones (before I added the top of the second wall) and both the straw and the little balls of spun gold tied down with thread & then glued on the bottom:

Windows, full wall, stones slightly rearranged (I could have spent basically forever tinkering with the stones…), and gluing the tiny toothpick-tip legs to the stool…

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Well that’s just adorable. I love how your haystack came out!

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That’s charming, it tells the story nicely.

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It is fantastic! Really like the rustic look of the egg carton walls.

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I love this! This was one of my favorite fairy tales!

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super cute!!

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How great is this? I love how you reimagined your supplies into these minis and how you’ve told such a clear story with just a few carefully selected pieces!

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This is the best! I love the mini gold skeins and haystack.

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twine becoming the straw equals briliant!! The room is adorable

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Love it.

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This is fabulous, you are very clever

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I missed this first time around. This is really cool.

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