Tutorials ? - And a new village "delivery service" soon :-)

I was wondering about some Sylvanian awfully expensive items lately. Like the florist cart. 

I truely love it but... Am I willing to put something like 60€ for it, when I can hardly gather that much to simply eat for a whole month ? Nah....

I also wanted to create a couple of booth to make my market a little bit more attractive. But Sylvanian ones are totally over my budget too, even if less expensive than the cart, still not "that" interesting to put much money on the table. I had a look at Playmobil... expensive too. And kits made of MDF. Still too high for my budget. 

Then I was looking at my Big Shot cutting machine... and I thought about some cards & boxes I made years ago. Maybe I could re-use my ideas to create funny cards to make some accessories.

I'm talking about this kind of things

A little bit like what I did (never finished, missing supplies) for the tiki bar, or Captain Horatio's one. Maybe I can create something.... sooner or later....probably in august.
Did some of you make some of those things ? Do you know about reliable tutorials ? 
I'm willing to share what I come up with, if I manage to create something "clean" enough, and if some people are interested.

For now I'm trying to end the total redo of my 1rst level balcony at home, and it's NO fun. It's an awfully hard job, and now I'll start putting the tiles on the floor, that's not my favorite part of the job ouch... I'm not that clever, and I have really few tiles, if I break just a couple of those it's going to be a catastrophe. I'm not even sure I have enough... Let's cross finger...


Well, this being said, I bought something. I shouldn't have. But again, it was one of those "nobody-want-it".... I wanted to buy this set from SSK and I started to save money to get the 2 matching sets...but the price jumped up one of a suddent... and then I had no money enough. I was more sad than upset. I gave-up. The price on ebay is reaching the sky.... Except for this one. I guess it comes with no accessories, but I don't care much, it looks clean...
 

I've let the price for you understand why I just couldn't resist LOL
I can still make some ice cream... If only those sets weren't that expensive, I'd get several to organize a delivery larger service hehe. At least, with some hope, I'll get this one !
*happy*

Some news (Sylvanian related & not)

Hello !

I just come to give some news, and the very first is that I am SO happy to tell that Bois Joli's post office is going to be totally efficient now, because a little guy is flying to me. Yes, I found a Samuel postman, it was a bit overpriced (because of the silly shipping cost, 1.5 time the price of the item itself huh). François said it's going to be my gift to reward me for all the hard job I did at home, and the gift for my "feast". I'm not sure it's something celebrated in other countries, but here we have a catholic Saint for each day of the year, so on the day it's the Saint matching your name, you are kind of celebrating it. I believe it's a tradition that's getting lost because now people name their kids with foreign names, or even invent some... So I guess I'm now belonging to the dinosaurs team, having a name that's matching one LOL. Mine is July 27.
We usually don't celebrate much more than wishing people a happy-you-day, but some get flowers, or chocolates, or a little gift. Most of the time only a card. I've always been celebrating ALL the people's "day", but hardly celebrated mine as nobody cared. That's great to have "my day", finally :-) And mostly when there's Samuel Stamp involved hehe

So, for anything else, not much to tell beside that I've been working awfully hard at home, trying to prevent it from falling apart, I still have no clue if I'll be able to keep it, I wish so. Until then, I'm working as hard as I can. I no nothing about all those big home jobs, I'm learning by myself, and using tutorials on youtube (!)
My last big project is to finish the balcony that is on the 1rst floor, and it was NO fun at all. Huge holes in the walls, etc
I'm almost done with the major problems, now I need some finishing and doing a kind of concrete ground before I can try to glue the tiles... Wish me luck
I'm suffering much, I hardly sleep more than 30mn in a row. ALL my body is hurting, and if I know what the problem is (diagnosed by a foreign doc), here they just consider it's not interesting, they don't care. As I have no money to run from a doc to another until I find one that has knowledge about all those things, I just do nothing at all. I have Ehlers-Danlos syndrom, and endometriosis, plus a large amount of tumors here and there, and a weird other orphan illness. It's getting harder each day.

But I still work. Nobody wants to employ me, I get no social help (because I refuse to go living in one of those dangerous building in the middle of drug traffic and other wonders). Working at home is keeping me kind of alive. In a certain way...

I first tried to just fill the holes, gaps, etc

but it wasn't working well. So I started covering it all with a heavy coat of cement/resin/sand

There are a bunch of ugly junctions, but it was too painful, I had to do it over many days...

walls weren't finished, no corners, etc

can you see the gap I had to fill ?

I used a kind of rail made of metal, and started filling the missing corner with rocks and a kind of very sturdy concrete mix

it started to get better

after

I still need to change a part of the glass (broken), repair all the wood of the window, and the door is not better... argh

*

and then I coated the walls too. Why not ? LOL

before/after

I start to enjoy cement and concrete more than stitching LOL

Ok, so I'll be back soon I hope, to show you my last creative finds, I tried to order a couple of things online with the last money I had on my paypal account (we are talking about 12 euros, don't expect wonders LOL), I tried a couple of asian sellers for scrapbooking dies, ink for my stamping, etc. I have more trust in asian sellers than french ones, and I believe I'm true about it. Most french sellers are *** ***** like the one that is living 25km from home. I bought from her a used stamp set from Stampin'up, and after 2 weeks nothing came... Ah ?! I asked her. It took her 3 more days to tell me she had been busy but she'll try have it done this next week... HUH ?! "TRY" ???? No, do not try, DO IT ! And maybe telling me instead of having me wondering and waiting for nothing ? Or maybe telling "I'm sorry" ??? No ???? I sometimes wonder if those people were raised by wild boars. Or salmons maybe. Gosh, I had the ugliest parents in the world, they taught me nothing, but still I am telling things like "thank you", "I apologize", or ....Argh.....

 I'm going to let her know the bottom of my thoughts when (if) she finally sends it. No matter it's a 5€ thing. And if I don't get it by the end of next week, I'll start a paypal dispute. Grrrrrrrr. So ok, lesson learnt, I've been ordering several times in my own country and it always was a problem. People are just not serious. That's why now I'll get anything from elsewhere.

That was my "venting" moment, sorry so LOL

Sylvanian - useful accessories

Sainsbury shop boxes

Post Office poster

Some shop signs, awning, box for the doughnut stand, and pictures from what I believe was the flower shop - to be printed A4 size

I'm also including this, it's an old lundby (or so) house roof, I thought it could be great to repare those classic little Sylvanian shops (like the florist, post office etc)

Hope it can help someone, because I know how frustrating it is to get a set that is not complete, when many people have it, and you don't get much help to complete it...

I've made my own stamp booklet for my post office using a blurry picture... LOL

Bois Joli has a post office !

Still wondering if Bois Joli citizens are going to actually use it, because the building is at the top of a shelf...huh....hill let's say, but the post office is finally opened !

Everything is ready !

The parcels and envelops keep coming, stamps were delivered, including some collectibles, the flower shop offered a bouquet...

*this is a behind the scene picture, to show that I was a little bit too much enthusiast with printing envelops...LOL. I've also printed 2 old advertisings, tiny stamps, changed the colour of the "remember to use" poster for it's matching the dull colours of my building, and at the bottom you can even see how I make my parcels for they are quite "sturdy", putting a cube of very dense foam inside, insulating type, not craft one as we don't have it here*

there is just a problem....

Peter Petite, the village postman is ready to collect the mail and deliver it on his bicycle all around the village and suburb.... but...

There is nobody to take the office in charge.

I've been told this role was for Samuel Stamp, but alas up to now we can't find him...

We also need a scale to weight the parcels...

Well, ok, the PO is opened but... not totally efficient LOL

Guess who was a bad girl ?

I finally received my parcels, it took "some" time as long as one was sent nobody-knows-where.
I now have my furniture for my little post office, so I hope I can find some time to finish it soon. I only miss a shop scale ! I'll probably try to make one using fimo...

I also got my tiny Sainsbury shop, it's so cute ! Very small tho, I understand why some people were disappointed, but I like that it's taking no space...

isn't this little bear adorable ? He still has the sticker under his foot

(don't forget my camera is partly dead, there is no stain or missing flocking)

look how small it is !

And then, I also bought something else. Yep....
NOT something I should have done but.... 5£ and no other bidding...

arghhhhhh

I placed a bid, and got it for the starting price... LOL
You know I love stairways, and bridges and all those funny parts/additions to buildings
I already have a school with the library in the tree but....

Ok, now I can think about what part of the school I can place in it, probably a tiny theater, or a canteen ... depending on what I can find...
Just having it AGAIN is quite nice, isn't it ?!

And what about a new tiny shop ?!

Not only I did it again, but... I did it again-again... Haha

Ahum... HOW on earth can someone resist this cute little bear with his itty bitty Sainsbury shop ? Many people I guess. Including me. But the kind seller, very reasonable shipping cost, and the only bid at 0.99 convinced me to give it a try. Let's put a 3.71 maxi bid.... And I won it. I'm a bad girl, but any good news is a treasure to cherish in my stupid life. Let's enjoy (and push some walls because I really don't know where I could display it, as small as it it LOL.

*would have you been able to resist this cute set ?*

Did it again... another Sylvanian parcel coming home !

Ok. It was NOT something planned but... I already missed 3 times (THREE) a set of furniture on ebay, because I totally forgot the end of the auction (!) and I was really mad at myself for this. Those sets always had the 2 same furniture I wanted for my post office : a kind of cupboard and a desk. I even forgot the auction of 2 desks with a cashier on, that sold for very few...

I must say I was about to forget this set too, when I suddenly remember that...hey...isn't it today ? It was. Only 3 minutes left... And of course it's the perfect timing because my computer was doing an update, for the 50th time this month....grrr... I had to retype all my passwords and such, and was very upset, believing I'll be late AGAIN.

I came just in time to put my bid of 3.02£, it was like 10 seconds before the end. I couldn't bid more because of the high shipping cost (ouch), and there was already a 0.99 bid. I was sure it wouldn't be enough... but I got it. Yooohoooo

So, not only I'll have furniture for my post office but I'll also have a cute forest table, to put in my caravans area. I'm so happy !!