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[dreamflower]

Thanks to coneygoil I finally am able to post some pics of my recent projects.

 

 

Here is polymer!Frodo, from several views.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here is my model of Bag End.  I used $40.00 worth of styrofoam, resin eggs, polymer clay, grapevine wire, floral picks and the odds and ends off broken silk flowers, 4 bags of reindeer moss, a bag of polished pebbles, and a bag of fake dirt sold for model RR sets, and 140 hot glue sticks.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The back is still a bit unfinished, but I don't want to completly cover it, as I would lose the kitchen window that way.  The veggies in the garden, the front and back steps, the well and the bird bath (and robin) and the mushrooms are all poly clay.  The windows and doors are painted with acrylics.

 

 

So now *I* have spammed with pics!

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[dreamflower]

Polymer!Frodo took about two days, since he had to bake in stages; and then when his hands broke off, I had to redo those, so add on another couple of hours to that on another day.

Bag End took me a little over a month. But I've been gathering the stuff and planning it in my head for a couple of years. The hardest part was covering the little resin egg houses with the styrofoam. The second hardest part was hot-gluing all the pebbles that line the road, the paths and the edges of the flower beds. The trees were not that difficult--making the trunks took only about 20 minutes apiece, but the hard part on that was taking apart the little greenery picks and applying the leaves. Some of them are wired on and some are hot glued. I had loads of fun planning out the flowers and plants. The daisies on top of the hill were some of the few flowers I bought (the rest were scavenged from the store's floor.) I had to re-make the bird bath, as the first one was (A) too large and (B) fell apart. I wish it had been bigger--it is of course just a small part of the actual smial. I plan to hang a mirror behind it, to give the illusion that it is larger.