End of Winter Crafty Blues

Sometimes I get an overwhelming urge to do crafts. No point in lying down until it goes away, I just need to make something. (Note: Mindolton Manor tour will continue soon. I've got to get this craft craziness over first.) This past weekend I had the late winter blues and while I was organizing (read playing in) my dollhouse room I came across a cardboard box marked "Unfinished Kits".

What treasures lay inside! I dug up some paints and tiny paintbrushes and set about finishing a few of the pieces.

First I mixed a green colour that I liked and I painted the wooden pieces.

Then with small brushes and a vague memory of a tole paining class I took decades ago. I decorated the pieces after Tynietoy.

I have never been able to perfect the stain on these wonderful kits so that they look like the picture. Painting them seemed like the perfect solution.

I still need to find a complementary fabric for the chair seats and the bed covers, but that is a project for later.

I am very pleased with how the set turned out.

Who knew I could paint? Certainly not I.

This project was so much fun I am encouraged to try again.

I built these from kits too, but used pieces of a chinese fan as the chair backs, I am thinking of painting the set an off white, maybe with flowers, maybe not. What do you think?

Hugs,
Susan