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I am finishing the third floor room in the Merrimack as a rec room. It’s the kind of room that would normally be in the basement except, um, the Merrimack doesn’t have a basement. I wanted a bar, because apparently my imaginary homeowners are lushes. There is a liquor compartment in the desk in the den, there is a drinks tray on the credenza in the foyer, but we also needed a bar in the rec room. The 50’s/60’s were a different time. Anyway, I started with the One-Inch Minis retro bar, but I wanted it done in tufted red leather. The “leather” I used is two-way stretch faux leather. It has a nice fine grain, is fairly thin and quite easy to work with. It comes in other colors, and I highly recommend it for miniature work. I put a layer of batting between it and some card stock with my pattern printed on, then used tiny stitches to do the tufting. I was going to use microbeads for the nail heads, but decided they would stick out too far, so I used Kris’s button tutorial. I painted some paper with gold craft paint, then, when it was completely dry, punched out tiny dots using an all-over-the-page craft punch that has dots as part of the pattern. The dots were then shaped using a tiny 1 mm ball stylus meant for nail art. I got a little tired of using toothpicks for legs, so these legs are the tips of some Japanese chopsticks I got at the dollar store. It’s not perfect, and I know the nail heads are a bit large for the scale, but I am happy with it. On the top is a Bols Ballerina bottle (made from the tip of a ballpoint pen, a seed bead, the top of a half-scale liquor bottle, some fine wire, a microbead and tissue paper), as well as some beer steins my imaginary occupants picked up while on their travels in Germany (actually pewter minis I painted).
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