To you these are the throw away tops of the dreaded plastic bottles of water, we are all trying to give up; in fact it is the top from someone else’s bottle. Not a stranger, I am not quite that obsessed yet!
You see, half the fun is to take something ordinary and turn it into something extraordinary but in dolls house scale.
This top is still talking to me, I know it can be something exciting but I am not sure yet what that can be. It looks like the blue light on a police car but much too big a scale for my 1/12 scale houses. Someone has suggested a Porta potty for camping, when you look at the open version. If I go for that it will have to be stored in the ‘sometime I will need this‘ drawer, joining countless small boxes from face cream that look like washing machines and tumble dryers and other bits and pieces waiting for their new identity.
I am thinking the white bit reminds me of oil lamps but that still isn’t right. I will have to wait for inspiration.The flip top interests me, hmm, maybe a top for a bin? Boring.
Anyone who makes dolls house furniture without a Kardashian sized bank balance will have such a stash somewhere in their house or shed or garage of things that look like trash but have potential.
Only today, family members were pounced on to give me their clear straws to help make oil lamps, not today, not tomorrow but one day. After all straws are disappearing and if I use them then they don’t end up in landfill. So as well as up-cycling and recycling my hobby is reducing landfill but I do it for fun.
Mabs Aug 2018
Making miniatures for fun 