Creatin’ Contest

​I don’t rightly remember how I found the Creatin’ contest on Miniatures.com.  It may have been through a YouTube video.  It possibly could have just been a random click while perusing the miniatures.com website.  But somehow early this year I found competition.  Should I?  Was my first thought.  No way I quickly told myself!  My creations are not competition quality, at least not in my mind.  But I kept going back to the contest pages.   Should I?

It was right about this time that I saw a little box that some cat food in that just screamed miniature sized outhouse!   I answered the call of my idea and I created a miniature outhouse…just the building.  I didn’t put it in a scene or make a scene with it.  I just made the outhouse.  But what to do with it?

No idea what to do with my randomly created outhouse, I went back to thinking about that contest.  Should I?  No… but then again….

By golly, I decided to do it!   It was a porch scene…what was somewhere near a porch in history?  An outhouse!  Even better, maybe I could incorporate some quilts, because I love to create miniature quilts!

What about doing the contest but doing a wash day scene!  Ohhh and I love kitchens, maybe I could build the house onto the porch and have a kitchen scene!  I plunked down my money and waited for my contest room box/porch to arrive.   I didn’t start working on it immediately….instead we bought a house and moved!  But I got to work on my project once we got settlers in.  I worked in fits and starts.  A bit here, a bit there.  

Immediately I realized that adding on the kitchen would make the project way too big.  I just don’t have room for a large finished project.  The yard and porch would be plenty big alone.  So I scrapped the kitchen idea.  But I still had plenty of ideas for my project.

Barn lantern in the outhouse?  Check!   Lamps in the windows?  Check!   Quilts on a clothesline?  Check. A tree with a treehouse?  Check!   

The contest entry had to be submitted by December 9th.   I work well with a deadline. It forced me to actually work on it, even when life got crazier and crazier.  I worked super early in the morning sometimes (4am miniature time?  It worked for me!).    Without the deadline I would have most likely pushed it aside and not completed it!

But complete it I did!   I took my pictures and I have submitted my entry!  A week before the deadline also!  At one point I was positive that I would be gluing and finishing things up at the last minute!

So here is my entry!  I was only allowed four pictures for my entry.  But hey…I obviously took plenty more so here is a mix of some of the pictures.