Friday, September 17, 2010

Gleanings from nature

I think miniaturists may be just a bit obsessed sometimes . . .
We had a picnic lunch at the beach a few days ago when the sun was shining. I was idly beachcombing when I saw that there were a lot of little dead crabs. Alan got a fright at my shriek of delight - 'dragon's teeth!!' He helped me gather a whole lot.
I can use the whole claw as a dragon jaw, or cut the tips for teeth - perfect for my little dragon scene :)
And how about this - big grape pips make instant bird skulls - if you hollowed out the eye sockets while they are still soft, let them dry out, then paint them black you'd have raven skulls.
Glenda

12 comments:

  1. They're fabulous finds Glenda - although I'm very glad there weren't other people around when you started shrieking "Dragon's teeth" - only another miniaturist (and dear Alan) could possibly understand that you hadn't completely lost your mind!!

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  2. Oh that's funny Glenda! I shriek for odd things sometimes and scare my husband half to death too!

    I was working clay once, in front of the TV and looked down at it as I folded, then unfolded a really thick piece. I made some sort of weird shriek and then yelled "I found the ice cream!", as I had just found the perfect ice cream texture that I had given up on months ago. :) He had no clue what I was talking about and just asked if I had to keep doing that all the time.

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  3. They are both fantastic. I think its perfectly normal to collect such items and can be seen collecting the ddest items too. There is a garden centre near me and reckon they think im mad, but in the car park they have the tiniest little weeds with the most beautiful yellow flower, i dry out and use on potions. Didnt mange to get any this year. I dont go in the garden centre but just stop there to collect the weeds, lol,

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  4. They are both great finds!! LOL at our mini thoughts!!

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  5. Good idea for dragon's teeth. I have a never ending supply of them right by my workshop.

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  6. Glenda, when I saw the photo, I had realized before reading!
    We can recover pretty much everything (and I say no more !)...
    Sometimes I think the eyes of others, the "normal", we are able to be even a little pathetic.
    But not matter, when you have dragon's teeth so nice!
    :-)

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  7. Una gran idea!!!!
    Las que hacemos miniaturas siempre miramos las cosas, intentando adaptarlas a nuestras minis jejeje
    Lo pero es que la gente que esta a nuestro alrededro se contagia y de vez en cuando tambien te traen cosas que te pueden servir jejeje
    Es como una enfermedad!!!!
    Feliz fin de semana
    besitos ascension

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  8. Superb ideas! Love them both! And very true -only miniaturist can see something different in the ordinary things ;D

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  9. OMG!!! Perfect!!! Glenda, you have THE EYE!!!

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  10. Love the raven skulls! Brilliant. i can see one attached to a potion bottle.

    Victoria ♥

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  11. but of course... its obvious now you mention it!!! LOL great tip x

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  12. Glenda, you clever clever gal. The grape pips do look like raven skulls. I love them !

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