Dollhouses and miniatures - DIY
Found
treasures - a piece of synthetic grass becomes an urn with irises |
I found a piece of synthetic
grass at a car booth sale for one SEK and got lots of plant material
for a mini garden and house plants. My daughter who lives outside
NY has lots of fantastic irises in different shades in her garden
and the grass looked just like these clumps. I decided to make an
urn with blue irises. |
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| I knew I needed a big urn
for the garden and managed to locate a heavy brass urn; filled it
with hobby clay and glued the leaves to the clay after making six
holes in the plastic with a needle. Then I made six irises from coffee
filters painted in shades of lilac and dark blue and arranged them
in the urn |
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| The leaves had a plastic
sheen so I painted the leaves with different shades of green to
cover the plastic. I bent some of the leaves for a more natural
look. Finally I sprinkled ground coffee beans in the urn to mimic
soil |
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