the forgotten garden...

For the last three months I have been working on a miniature garden scene. It started out as a simple garden shed, an idea triggered by the arrival of the Wooden Market Stall Kit, but it soon grew to included two Cottage Bases, an arbor, a platform base, stairs, the skeleton of the gardener, a huge wisteria vine, shutters, window boxes, and lots of garden accouterments...

As I was photographing the garden for this blog post I decided I really need to add one more Cottage Base in between the two existing bases so I can add a water feature... Yes, I may have become a bit dotty from inhaling too many glue fumes...

Let me show you some of the things I like best about my overgrown garden...

 The back of the shed has lots of "ivy" growing up it. I cut apart a plastic vine I got at a craft store to make the ivy...

 Inside the shed is a wonderful potting table stocked full of garden supplies. I used "soil" made for miniature railroad enthusiasts to fill my potting soil bag and make a dirt pile on the potting table. I find lots of useful stuff in the miniature railroad department of the craft store!

 I made this heather plant out of Flower Soft, Lycopodium, and floral wire.

 The wisteria vine was made from a plastic flower bush (from a craft store) I cut apart and combined with lots of Fern Garland to make it look overgrown.

 If you look closely you can see a cat peeking through the arbor at that nest tucked into the wisteria...

 A drippy faucet is easy to achieve with a bit of Making Waves Resin Water...

 Take a peek through the window and you will see a little rat watching the cat napping...

You can find my supply list here for all of the great products from Alpha Stamps. Speaking of great products... let me show you how easy it is to put together that potting table...

 I paint my pieces before I glue them together.

 All you need is a bit of white glue.

 Before I glued my table top on I decided to change the color...

 When the glue on my potting table was dry I touched up any spots I missed while painting...

 After the glue dried on the table top I gave the whole table a good sanding to make it appear used...

 

Then I applied a bit of darker brown paint here and there to age it even more...

Such a fun and easy little table to make! It could be used in a garage or workshop too :)

I hope I haven't put you to sleep with this loooong post! Thanks for stopping by and have a great and artful day!