A Ghoulish Feast

Hallowe'en has firmly arrived at Pixie Dust Miniatures! I've listed every item on Etsy now and have moved on from this holiday to prepare for a mini Thanksgiving. :) Certainly was fun coming up with a Pixie Dust Hallowe'en range, and looking at other peoples' fantastic varied and different takes on Hallowe'en in the world of mini.

Here's the Ghoulish Feast I put together with all my Hallowe'en items 2010. Scroll down past the pcitures and there's a video.
Hope you like it. :)
Caroline

Cracked Crockery

I made some Cracked Crockery or Witches Dishes to use when I did my Pixie Dust Miniatures Halloween feast photo shoot. Lots of fun to make. They're ceramic dishes which I painted and textured with three kinds of paint. 1:12 scale and soon available on Etsy. :)

Candles, Candles, Candles

Finally! I took inspiration from the wonderful old classic horror films like Bella Lugosi's 'Dracula', Lon Chaney Jnr's 'Wolf Man' and Boris Karloff's 'Frankenstein'! I loved making them. People have been asking for a tutorial so I'll try and get one up in the next few weeks if I get time. I've also been asked to do candles with faces in the same vein as my children's book 'The Hidden World' which has faces on just about everything in each illustration! So I'll get around to that too.

Caroline :)






Old Dripping Candle Set












Taper Candles in 'Pewter' Holders

Jack o Lanterns and Pumpkins!

These are traditional orange pumpkins in 1:12 scale. They come in 4 different sizes and two different faces. All listed on Etsy today :)

And in case you didn't catch my history lesson last time, here it is again...!
The old festival of All Hallows Eve (or its original Celtic name, 'Samhain') wouldn't be complete without goulish pumpkin faces sitting in the windows. The tradition is hundreds of years old. People believed that the spirits of the dead rose on this night, and some of these spirits were bad ones. People disguised themselves as demons and bad spirits (hence wearing costumes on this night) so that the bad spirits would think they were one of their own and leave them alone. They also make fake demon faces to put in the windows of their houses to keep bad spirits away (carved turnips into jack o lanterns).

Spooky Halloween Cake

Straight from the Pixie Dust witch's kitchen... here's a spooky Halloween Cake! It is quite a bit different to my Hummingbird Miniatures cake (which was decorated with chocolate and candy). This one is a bit witchier and more fitting for a witch than a miniature candy shop.

It is moist-looking chocolate cake with green sugar frosting, but it's topped off with a highly poisonous Banded Krait snake, sheep's eyeballs and finally rainbow sprinkles.

1:12 scale, polymer clay as usual.

I've only got three left and my Hummingbird Miniatures Halloween cakes sold out fast, so be quick if you'd like one! :)
Mini hugs,
Caroline
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Bubbling Iron Cauldrons

This was enormous fun to make as I've never worked with resin before and thought it was brilliant, although it did make my studio smell like chemicals for days so not necessarily recommended...!
Basically, I made battered old-looking iron cauldrons first out of polymer clay. Then I put weeds and a long handled silver spoon inside each. (The weeds were scenic foliage used in miniature railways). I mixed up some green resin and poured into the cauldrons and layered with a mixture of varied size glass balls to create the look of bubbles.

Great fun!

Hope you like them. They'll be on Etsy soon. Let me know what you think. :)
Caroline
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