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Miniature food and food tutorials for dollhouses, room boxes, and dioramas
What are you eating today and where? This is a general page about food. See the food folder for pages with specific food items. What about your general store?
Dining rooms are the formal dining area in the home, where the "wedding china" is used for special occasions.
Pannikins - Mary Echer's site, a wide variety of foods. (Mary used Envirotex, which yellows over time. There are other water substitutes on the market)
To make spaghetti, take a pale yellow cotton thread and dip in TLS and bake. It looks very realistic. Translucent Liquid Sculpey is a liquid form of polymer clay that can be used both with solid polymer clay and other craft materials. It has the appearance of white glue, yet has a viscous and slightly sticky texture. Although initially translucent, tint the Liquid Sculpey to any color with a variety of pigments. The cure liquid clay by baking in a conventional, toaster, or convection oven. Apply it to any material that can withstand baking at 275 degrees (F).
Tar Gel medium is excellent for sauces, available from Dick Blick
Groceries - Cut out the colored ads on coupons in your Sunday paper, cereal boxes, aspirin bottles, cans of tuna, Spaghettios, etc. Paste these into blocks of wood and dowel pieces (painted appropriately). Now you have little products for your house or store shelves.
To make spice jars, Use clear plastic cut into pieces in size required, seal the bottom using clear glue. Fill with diff powder colors to represent the spices. Top the jars with a small button and bead. Hint: Powder can be made by scraping chalk and putting it into the jars.
Fun food -- acorn caps make lovely individual salad dishes. Fill with snipped greens cut from plastic Christmas decorations, add tiny red bits for tomato and drizzle with clear nail polish to hold it together. For potato chips -- dry the seeds from green peppers.To make chip dip - mix white glue with baking soda till it holds its shape in the bowl, swirl the top a bit and sprinkle with a bit of crushed dried parsley.
For powdered sugar, use cornstarch, talc (powder) or white artist soft pastels ground to a fine powder.
For coconut, use shavings formed when acrylic sheets are cut.
Look in the kiddies section of art/craft places for glass paint kits. They have about six different colours in small amounts for children to paint sun discs etc. (need to check the picture of the final item to see if it has the desired colours as they are often different) and the cost is often less than two bottles of glass paints. Having said that the paints are ideal for stained glass windows and things like strawberry sauce and other food items, maybe even a Tiffany lampshade. Usually these are acrylic so will mix with craft paints, or left on their own or mixed to create a new colour, other suggestions are, brown sauce and gravy, raspberry, orange or blueberry sauce and jelly look, I've painted yellow over toast to make butter shiny just look through cook books for ideas, Matte beads used for Christmas ornaments get a shiny glow, just experiment and have fun at the cheaper price you have nothing to lose, always wash the plastic and allow it to dry naturally as the molds usually have a releasing agent and the residue can stay on the plastic. Test on the bottom of one bottle first to assess the result.
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johanna janhonen said
at 12:07 am on Sep 21, 2010
the chef on the main photo on this page is JUST AMAZING!
johanna janhonen said
at 10:16 pm on Nov 10, 2011
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johanna janhonen said
at 10:21 pm on Nov 10, 2011
Needed to remove this code by Mel as this picture broke the layout of this page. Dont know how to change the code so that the picture would be 240 pixels width but if someone can do it in few seconds, please do it :).
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