(I really do love my miniatures.)
I wanted to add some little pots and display pieces around the shop front at ground level, to break up the bare white panels at the front a bit. But every time I wanted to move the shop, or turn it round, it was a pain in the bum. So I decided that I needed to make a base.
I used an old picture frame and cut a piece of heavy duty cardboard to fit the frame, covering the glass exactly.
Mr Gypsy thinks I'm a bit weird for keeping strange bits of rubbish. Sometimes I do too. Occasionally, I will pack up my crafting stash for the umpteenth time and put away some piece of packaging and I will wonder if perhaps I'm not just a bit of a crazy hoarder. Who moves house with an old empty egg carton, anyway?
But look - I used it! Knew it would come in handy one day. #smug
My cobblestones are made of egg carton, which I think I first saw suggested on the amazing Otterine's blog. The grouting is wall mending that I just had lying around (if you've ever lived with small children, you will understand why this is the kid of thing you happen to have to hand).
At the front is a little strip of turf - actually railway modeller's grass, glued and scattered directly onto the cardboard.
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