How To Make These Flowers The items you will need are: -String -Flocking (I have demonstrated how to make this in my blog called ‘making the foliage for the train layout’) -Liquid hair spray glue (which I demonstrated how to make in last week’s blog called ‘making hair spray liquid glue) -Green paint (or a can of dark green paint) -Spray gun -Scissors -Glad bake String Liquid Hair Spray Glue For the foliage you might first like to mix up some mixtures of coloured flocking. Some of the variations I have mixed up for our flowers are: Purple and mauve with some light olive green flocking. Dark pink, medium pink, pale pink and white flocking. Dark pink, medium pink, pale pink, white, and light olive green flocking. Deep red, medium red, and dark green flocking. Dark yellow, medium yellow and pale yellow...

                               Making Hair Spray Liquid glue To make your hair spray liquid glue you will need the following items: -Some very cheap hair spray with the strongest rating of hold and make sure it doesn’t have any softener in it. (Here in Australia when I first got some cheap hair spray I managed to get it cheaper from the reject shop but they haven’t had any since the Covid isolation. I have picked up my cans of hair spray from the supermarkets when they come up on sale). -A can of WD-40 spray. You will need the small plastic straw that comes with the spray can. You will not be using the WD-40 at all, only the straw. -A can of compressed air. You will need the nozzle of the top of this can. You will not be using the can of compressed air spray at all only the nozzle. -A disposable plastic contain. -Glad Wrap. First you will to take the nozzle of your ca...

  So Many Different Types Of  Foliage Trees and Shrubs           Over the years we collected some trees and some flocking and when it came time to place the foliage on the mountain I realized that I didn’t have enough. I didn’t have enough to cover even a third of the top of the mountain, nor did I have enough variety for what I wanted to do. And when I looked online at the prices of everything and knowing how much I might need I decided I would have to make all the foliage. And it really wasn’t to expensive at all. It did take a little time to make though. I would find that I would make approximately 20 trees and shrubs and that would take about 3 to 4 days to make and then I would place them and then it would be making another lot the next week. For a while there it was all I seemed to be doing. But it did pay off and we think it made it look so much better and more original. Here are some of the types of foliage I had to make. I will be expla...