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.
