Ginger Piggy Booboo

Introducing my dog Ginger, or Piggy, or Booboo. (her nicknames).   

Catalogue Links.

Here are a range of Links to online Catalogues of miniature plastic figurines.    

Mojo

http://www.mojofun.eu/catalogue/


Schleich

http://www.schleich-s.com/toys/


Papo

http://www.papo-france.com/


CollectA

http://www.collecta.biz/catalogue/


Bullyland

http://www.bullyland.de/


Safari

http://www.safariltd.com/

Introducing:-

INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY of ANIMAL REPLICA COLLECTORS.

SCHLEICHTIERSAMMLER.
STS FORUM.


STS is a great place to meet other collectors all around the world.  
Awesomely friendly, and loaded with information.

Check it out!
Let me know what you think.

http://schleichtiersammler.forumieren.de/

Horse Wash Bays

Hello Hira,  thankyou for taking the time to write a comment on my blog.   You are the first to comment!

I have posted your great comment here about the stalls so other readers may benefit from your    excellent advice.  Here is the comment below.

"Thanks for post I like it me also share with you some tips hope you like Make sure your stall roofs are at least 3ft above your horse's head so if it spooks or rears up it will not injure itself. Also, the door to the stalls should be at least a metre wide (more for bigger ponies or horses) so both you and your horse can get through safely". 

Here Hira has posted a link to check out.   Very nice,  informative website.   Lots of details to consider if you want to create realistic and safe things for your plastic horses.    The images are good and clear as well.   They even have examples of Round Yards,  and even building plans, if you need a stables built from scratch.   

site.http://www.signaturestables.com.au/


http://www.signaturestables.com.au/we-build-covers-for/wash-bays/

I could definitely do with one of these!    There is quite a few models of girls made by different companies, like the one in the photo  holding gear.    Imagine this scene in miniature!   How cool! 


This is a Playmobil set.   
Horse Washing Station.   set number 4193.   
It's got a hose, and the pump there,  (which is blue, on the right),  pumps real water!

Thanks again Hira for sharing with us that awesome link.  :-)

Apollo Story

Hello All!   Here is something different!

My husband Mark, was sitting there reading a library book about Apollo.   I got dressed ready to go out and he looks up and says to me "Don't wear those trousers!  They are boring, change into something colorful!"

Well,  I took them off, took his book off him, and went to the sewing machine and did this!   I put them on and showed him,  he said "Now, that's more you!"  

Note:  I didn't have any stripes in my stash.   so, that's why the flag is stars and stars instead.
This is my first experiment with my new freeform embroidery foot I got yesterday at Sunlit Blooms in Townsville.    I love my sewing machine!  Thank you Kath & Liz.  Awesome service!  

Horse Garlands

Hand making little horse garlands can be lots of fun!   Shopping for little flowers to sew onto the straps is a great excuse to get out and about to the craft stores looking for flowers,  (and a whole lot of other random stuff to include in your stash)!  

* Have you ever looked on You Tube and typed in Craft Haul?   People going shopping for crafty bargains and putting them on you tube to show everyone?  

Here is my beautiful Mojo horse to show you the size of the garland and how nicely it fits.

INSTRUCTIONS:
Step #1.   Cut out some strips of pretty material from your stash.  
Step #2.   Find some pretty matching ribbon and pin the ribbons in the ends.
Step #3.   Sew the raw edges in so they don't fray.    (that is, tuck them under and press with an iron, and sew them up).  
* be sure to stitch at least 2cm of the ribbon inside.
* NOTE:  if you cut the ribbon on the diagonal, it is less likely to fray, but since it will be used to dress up, it's a good idea to put fray stopper on the ribbon ends as well.   Nail polish can be used instead of fray stopper, and it's cheaper!
Step #4.   Glue on the flowers (just to position them where you want them), and hand sew them onto the strips.  All done!
Step #5.   Have fun, and please be sure to post your results here.   I'd love to see them!   or, email Petunia Park Stables and I can post them up here with a photo of yourself with your creations!  petuniaparkstables@iinet.net.au  


  

Talent Quest

TALENT QUEST

What I like about this image is that I made use of lots of other small elements in it, making it a little different from the others.   I had fun making up this one as well.   It actually took several hours.   (well, most of my images DO take a day each).    well....... it makes me happy.   :-)

The rings are off milk bottles, wound with satin ribbon.   I put the sequin trim (I had in my craft stash)  wrapped around the bull.   The blue stand I got from a garage sale for $3.   (It's a part off a wooden tower of Pizza).    The little red rubber things under his hooves are some parts of packaging from tools that I found in the garage rubbish bin.  

The stage lights are off the christmas tree, and the stage is a breakfast in bed table.

The easel is from the Playmobil Pirate Set, and the plastic number 4 I got as part of a mathematics set I paid $2 for from the local Vinnies Store.   (That's an opp shop,  short name for St Vincent De Paul).

The polar bear judge is one of my favorite Schleich models.   It's a retired model.   I've had it for quite a while.   I really like it's pose.    I set this scene up against the dining room wall because I liked the stripes of the tongue and groove wooden wall.  

Peace Offering

PEACE OFFERING

by Mark Harper.

This image was my husbands idea.   The message here is that United Nations is giving the lion a strawberry cream cake so he will not be interested in hunting the zebra and giraffes (in the background).   Of course,  strawberry cream cake or not,  he will still go and hunt and eat the other animals.   So, the whole thing being a pointless exercise.

The Jeep is Safari, Mojo lion, Mojo Zebra and the 2 giraffes are both Schleich.   Photo taken on the dirt next to the driveway which is now baked hard, (because we are coming to the end of our tropical dry season).   I also faded the color out of the photo to make it look more like a hot African savanna.  

The cake is a Sylvanian Families (Calico Critters) Bakery Set cake.   The girl hanging out of the window of the jeep, is Wendy, from the Wendy & Friends Riding Set.  

Monday - Washing

MONDAY - WASHING

This image is one of my favorites.   I set this up in the park across the road from my house,  shortly after sunrise.    (see how long the shadows of the trees are in the background?).    

I crochet these little blankets with DMC size 8 Cotton Pearl using a pattern that I saw in a library book.   The name of the book is Teenytiny Crochet by Catherine Hirst.   This is a cute little book, and, it's illustrations are very interesting.   They are little carved balsa wooden props painted, and in each of the backgrounds, features Schleich plastic animals.   

For the cloths line, I got a couple of tent pegs out of the garage,  and little wooden pegs I got at a cheap shop for $2.50.   (packet of 50).   The little washing basket is part of a Sylvanian Families or (Calico Critters) set.   

I was walking around the local Spotlight store, and saw little squares of yellow material for .50c and I had some yellow/orange trim in my craft stash at home.   That's how I made her little apron.   I put the cloth around her waist and tied the trim in a bow to fasten it.   

If I was to improve this image, I would find some finer grass with smaller blades.   What do you think?

Tuesday - Ironing

Street Performers

After the talent quest was over, the winners decided to put on a show for the crowd outside!

Sunday Best.

SUNDAY BEST

Mrs Ewe Mojo in her Sunday Best

Mrs Ewe Mojo would like to say that she had spent a great deal of time washing her wooly coat especially for the photo shoot.   the day before, she confessed, that she had a gluttonous feast of very ripe blackberries in the field.  She was very glad to have a matching hat that she could pop upon her head to conceal the stain between her ears.   

 Mrs Ewe Mojo  (model #387058) side view of her lovely Sunday Best outfit.   Beaded with little yellow glass beads with bright orange centers adoring her hand crochet coat in lovely rusty brown size 8 DMC cotton pearl with matching hat.   

New Outfits For Model Horses

Going out for a lovely walk in the park?   On a cool late afternoon?    These outfits are just right for a sunday stroll!

The Schleich Goat and Pony outfits are made from wool,  and the Mojo Black & White horse, and Schleich Brown & white are both wearing a breathable light cotton rug with hand cross stitched motifs of an owl and rose, and little heart.   The light rugs also have glass beads attached at each end to weigh the rug down slightly for a snug feel, and also adding just a touch of classy bling.

Commercial Centre Renovation Update 15th june.

Today, I decided that all this me trying to get the floor right, was just too much!   so, I got the professionals in to lay some lino and carpet for me.  

Here they are hard at work.   and, the last photo is of the top floor all completed.    I have to say, I'm very happy with the result,   and they did it all in one day.   :-)

NEWS FLASH >>>>>>>>>>>  NEWS FLASH >>>>>>>>>>> NEWS FLASH >>>>>>>>>>>>>

JANUARY 16th,  2013.  
I decided yesterday that I didn't like the carpet and Lino there.   The carpet started to fray, and so,  I took it off.   I kept the plain white floor.   O, and the Lino was just too hard to keep clean.   I accidentally tore a hole by moving a shelving unit around.   I didn't have it glued down permanantly, so that was lucky!  

Lazybones !!!!!

I hired this guy yesterday to help me with Petunia Park Commercial Trade Centre.    His job for the day was to clean up the rubbish on the floor and put it in the bin,   and stack the boxes of farm supplies away neatly in the corner.  

I left him there to do the work in the morning,  and when I came back in the afternoon, this lazybones  was just sitting there, and he had not done ANY work at all!  Not even lifted so much as finger!     Sooooo hard to get good hired help these days!   

Horsey Couture

Showing off the most glamorous and lovely outfits from Petunia Park Commercial Centre,  is the lovely  Mojo 2010  Clydesdale, model code #387085.

This little outfit is a pretty little coat with red satin ribbon,  little red embroidered flowers, and a frill of pretty little green and blue flowers.    The lining of the coat matches the frill.    Very pretty.

This lovely coat features a large red roses frill,  little gold buckles on the ties and a lovely green braid.    Very sophisticated.

It's a warm tropical night by the ocean.   Here we have a lovely sky blue,  hand crochet surround at the top,  and along the bottom,  a sandy beach hand crochet boarder for the hula dancer under the palm tree.   Hand embroidered onto soft, hand-spun natural calico,  just like the beach, soft enough to dance on.

Feel like climbing up a lovely tree and having a swing on the tire.   Old fashioned in style, with a dear little house on the other side,  this nice little coat is perfect for wearing on a lazy sunday afternoon.  

Another pretty one.   Country style tiny red roses with pretty little on the little frill.   the hand embroidered butterfly is colored with colorfast archive ink.   Casual and pretty.  

Undersea Special.   This little number will have you dreaming of being a seahorse.   Hand embroidered,  this under-the-sea scene of fish, seaweed, and jellyfish features a coral - like crochet ruffle in deep sea blue around the edges.   Even the little octopus loves living here!

Now, something from the skies!   This little coat has a pretty ric-rac edging in bright happy yellow.   The beautiful butterfly,  hand embroidered with the finest silk ribbon is a stunner.   The butterfly is outlined in jet black with Mouline Sticktwist embroidery floss by Madeira, Germany,  gives the primary colored butterfly a stunning finish.  

This stunner features an amazing vintage style flower crafted with an authentic vintage flower loom from the 1970's.   The edging is a glitter golden ric-rac around the quilted coat with a beautiful cotton lace sewn around the outside edge.  This coat says it all!

Bejeweled!   Stick on jewels makes this coat with make you stand out from the rest of the herd.   Each jewel surrounded by simple embroidery in royal purple.   The frill is a pastel green which matches perfectly with the pastel purple of the pretty flower pot featuring little french knots,  and the pastel pink running stitches around the calico. 

County Bird hand Appliqué.   What a beauty.   This coat has  ties and lining to match the bird wings.    Cool enough for the city horse to wear out to any country rodeo with style.  

This funky little coat would be great for the young colt to get the attention of all the fillies!   A cute, scary crab with big red claws,  a seaweed style green and gold edging,  perfect for the image conscious teenage horse with attitude!   Fully sick!

This is an interesting one!   Designed with 'fun' in mind!    A city - fanciful hand embroidered scene.   It  has a little red car,  parked at the traffic lights, with a panda waiting under the tree to cross the road safely.   The boarder around the edge of this fun little outfit is machine edging in red cotton little cars.   Fun & Funky.

Thankyou to my wonderful Mojo Clydesdale for her time.   She's a very stunning model.

What to do with the floor?

What, O WHAT will I do with this floor?   some of this stuff stuck on the wood is rubber cement glue, and the rest is some other hard stuff?   HELP!

I decided to just paint over the stuff really thickly, and in boring blue,  to make it sort of like a concrete lookalike which you could see in a regular shopping centre.

I have yet to paint up the walls.   I plan to paint them like the trim on the outside.  Full on gloss white.

Shelving and shop display hardware.

Went to a garage sale on Saturday,  and picked up this groovy box of wooden dominos for 50c    Bargain!   They are varnished, brightly colored and smoothly sanded.    Afterwards, I went to the hardware store and I bought a couple of sticks of round dowel for $2.50    I thought I could cut up the dowel into short lengths (about 4cm)   and glue them onto the dominos to make shelves.    I decided on round dowel apposed to square because the stick was quite long so I thought of cutting up a few smaller lengths (2cm or 3cm)  and glue (have you ever tried using Tacky Craft Glue?  good stuff!)   on printed off little labels so they can look like cans on the shop shelves.

These are going to make the perfect shop shelving hardware for the Petunia Park Commercial Centre!!!!!

And....... Here we have the finished product.   Perfect size for my home made feed packets.  

Home-made Miniature Feed Packets.

Miniautre Feed Packets make top little props to have hanging around the stables, or in the feed or tack room.

Here are some that I made following the instructions I got from You Tube.    There are quite a few sites like this one by Conveyor12Studios to view.    I looked at alot of them, then adapted the instructions to make mine unique.   I totally love them,  they are soooo cute!

Here is the video instructions I got off YouTube.    This video is made  by Conveyor12Studios.

One THING I DID A LITTLE DIFFERENTLY:

- Printed off many different labels from lots of brands on a sheet of paper.  (Google / Images / Horse feed).   Then I cut out the little labels and glued them onto my little packets.   This meant that I could use different types of paper like old butcher bags, school book paper, and colored fancy paper).  And have other brands and labels, not just Spillers.  I choses labels that have nice clear horse images on them.   I didn't bother with the ingredient labels on the backs either.        

The paper I used for my finished packets were the butcher bag, and the school book lined paper pictured above. 

I haven't used the nice shiny gold coffee bag for anything yet,  but I'll think of something and post it up here.

Commercial Centre Renovation Update 18th May, 2012

Renovation Update  18th of May, 2012

I got this at a garage sale for $5   It is the future Petunia Park Commercial Trade Centre.

The paint job on it was sooo bad!   there was black texta and liquid paper on the perspex windows.  

I used cheap hand sanitizer to get it off.   Came off really easily, germs would have no hope!

I painted the roof using Taubmans Yellow Hi Chroma paint which was $5 for a litre can.   Bargain!  and for the outside walls, a Taubmans green paint called Green Thorns.

Some of the roof wooden trim was snapped off, so I used wood putty to fill it in.

Please keep following my Blog for updates.   I am new to Blogging so thankyou for your patience as I learn how to add members and other features.

Regards from
Petunia Park Stables.