1:12th scale Halloween potted plants

A mad amount of effort I put in to making an abandoned house set for putting miniatures on. The potted "eye plant" was inspired by the one in the film Labyrinth, the other two I don't know.  I liked putting the skull faces on the flowers though. I think the Halloween section of my shop was getting the most attention. 

 

 

These are the canes I made to make the eyes for the potted plants, after that I was left with enough canes to make hundreds of eyes.

So I had this plan, I would also sell eyes, in a different section of the shop, so that anyone who didn't want to end up with canes capable of making hundreds of eyes, could just buy a pair. Which is something I would have liked to be able to do, instead of making them myself, I suppose.

1:12th scale Tang Horse

This is a tang horse I was making for the national trust.

I could sculpt like this when I was applying for the degree at the University of Ulster, I wasn't upset about being rejected, I genuinely believed I wasn't good enough, and this was confirmed to me when I was rejected. I was extremely nervous in the interview and I didn't know how to answer their questions, if they had any, I can't really remember much about it, the A1 folder was extremely heavy and awkward to carry to it and I threw it in the bin and most of the work in it, too, and I dont regret it, the only thing I regret throwing out was the collage of a lion from Tutankhamuns tomb, I did at high school. Even as I was ripping it up I thought I would regret that, and I do.

 

I like the work of an artist called Goga Tandashvili, and I wish I'd been born in Russia.

1:12th scale horse toy

This is a miniature horse I made, seen here without it's pulltoy base. It was going to be for sale, so I could move out of my parents etc,. I have great difficulty with pricing as well, bills, all kinds of things. And to be honest I don't really want to sell it.

 

1:12th scale Halloween masks, witch and Frankensteins monster

These are one of the items I was making for my Etsy shop, for the Halloween section.  I was happy to do this, at the time.

Halloween masks made using Japanese grace clay, which I highly recommend. 

 

On the left the masks as they come out of the mould, middle, painted using watercolour paints and on the right, with hair and other details applied. 

I designed these boxes in MS Paint, mostly to avoid copyright issues when selling them. 

Saved cellophane from envelopes to create windows in boxes, also to use in the Christmas boxes I was going to sell. 

These are the masters, for making moulds from, I had plans to make a werewolf and a devil too. 

 I would have liked to have done Jewellery and ceramics at the university of ulster, but for some reason when the foundation course was over I thought it would be best to abandon getting a degree and look for a job instead.

1:12th scale Halloween party scene

I disappeared from my blog for a few years, to start my own "business" and then things were going well, and I started to think in terms of self employment forms etc, and then I quitted. 

 

 

It's been hell.

I absolutely love the film The Addams Family. It's a near perfect film for me, only one scene in it annoys me. 

Recently I bought some Halloween decoration kits. 

Great clock in the Addams family, also love the cat nutcracker, on the left, from Poundstretcher.

 

Made these a bit different, by using only one button on some of them to make them cycloptic. 

On some of these pumpkins I put the smile upside down too, should have taken a picture of one, forgot. 

I got these kits at The Works. I thought the white bit on the cat looked like a beard and I chose not to use it, not complaining.

1:12th scale voodoo shelf

This was one of my favourite miniatures to make. I'd actually started my Instagram, to promote my miniatures to sell, I've quit that avenue now, too complicated to explain, but I'm absolutely shattered by it all.