One day to go.....and three more new followers

Welcome
A huge welcome to MelyMel, MiniLisa and RosaMaria.  As always I hope you enjoyed visiting my blog and that you will come again often and leave some feedback on what you see here.  I really appreciate comments and love to hear from you.  


MelyMel, your Victorian house is very elegant indeed.  I really like the way you have the different areas in the living room but the room is still a coherent whole. 


MiniLisa, the workshop you attended looks interesting.  Some kind of kitchen it appears, and it will be nice to see the finished result. 


RosaMaria, not only have you received some beautiful gifts lately but the Summer Swap items you made for Natalia are exquisite.  I'm sure she was delighted with them.


One day to go
It is 9pm, 19th September here in Sydney.  The giveaway closes midnight tomorrow night AEST (Australian Eastern Standard Time).  So there is just over a day to go - 27 hours in fact.  I have started to make the list of who wants to go in which draw.



New arrivals today
The Courier called today with a package from Petite Properties.  It weighed a reasonable amount too - because it contained three kits: Church Farm Cottages, Honeysuckle House and Cockleshell Cottage.  That is three more to add to the container of kits.  Or perhaps to the list of possibilities of the next thing to start on?



Dragons

The first of the dragons is painted.  It's Violet. You can't tell, but there are three shades of violet to purple paint on her, the final one being violet metallic.  Then I've used pure silver metallic over the top - some parts are painted on, some parts I've just rubbed it on lightly.  Her eyes are blue to give a little contrast  but they might need to be a bit darker I think.


 I wanted to have the scale markings still showing in white but that didn't look nice, so I tried it with the darkest purple worked into the grooves instead.  


 I have painted Rosie too but am not happy with the result - the colour looks quite different when it's put on the air drying clay.  And I suppose it will look different again once it is varnished.  But Violet is rather sweet, I think.  If I was a doll-maker I would give her long curly eyelashes but I'm not, so I'll have to leave well enough alone vbg.


She's not all that big, but bigger than I planned at first.   Rosie, the second dragon, was an attempt to make a smaller model but she has actually come out longer.  I still need to try again. 


Here is Violet curled up on my hand, to show her size a bit better.  


So - until tomorrow......