making the kitchen sink: I

Making Doll's House Miniatures With Polymer Clay by Sue Heaser had an easy-peasy-looking Belfast sink I wanted to make, only I didn't want to make all of it out of polyclay. I had found some Formica sample chips at Home Depot and one was perfect for a drainboard with only minimal cutting down; and I cut 1/4" square doweling into four lengths for the piers and then glued them together in pairs and then sprayed them to prime and painted them pale gray for grout.

I made the washing bowl & plumbing fixtures from polyclay. I found out why Sue Heaser put foil around the mustard tin, there's a tiny roll around the bottom that would make it incredibly impossible to get the bowl off after it's baked. I wanted to make the bowl look aged, so I touched the white clay with just the rim of the yellow ochre paint tube and then folded it in a fold of waxed paper & proceeded to run it through the pasta machine several times.

After baking I spray painted the plumbing fixtures chrome-color.