How To Make Trees Made Out Of Rope We had collected some packets of trees on our travels over the last 10 years but when I came to making the mountain just like the flowers, weeds and shrubs I very quickly realized that we were going to need a whole lot more. I priced them online and didn’t want to pay the prices they were asking for them amount and we were going to need so many trees and not to mention the lack of variety to choose from, especially when I wanted gum trees, wattle trees, autumn trees, cherry blossom trees and just plain green trees of varying green foliage, so I decided to make my own. On the internet they show a few different ways to make the trees. But the type that interested me was ones made with string and rope, these look more do able for my first set of trees.  Here is a list of the following tools and items that you are going to need to make your own...

                             My Miniature World Is Growing As you can see I am not only working on Ho scale and life size, but also have now started working on 1 1/12 th doll house scale. So many pretty things to collect, where do I start. Well for Christmas my Hubby and Daughter and Son in-law brought me some furniture and bits and pieces to start me of. And my Parents gave me this 1 1/12 th scale Kitchen Aide Mixer. Just love it, it’s so detailed. 

                                          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...