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This is the fairy house I made for my mother for Christmas last year. I had forgotten to take photos before I gave it to her. Since she brought it back so I can make adjustments to the roof, I figured I'd take advantage of the opportunity to take some photos too.
Altogether it took about 25 hours of work. Every detail is done by hand except for the wood grain texture on the door and shutters on the side windows.
The roses were sculpted by hand, the largest one measuring just barely over 1/4 inch. For the "stained glass" windows I made what ended up being a very large cane. Which is kind of funny since I only needed 2 slices of it.
All of the bricks for the outside, and the stones for the doorway were cut and shaped separately, textured with sandpaper, and laid, more or less, the same way real bricks would have been done. For the mortar I mixed regular clay with liquid clay until it was the right consistency.
The roof comes off so that the house can be used to store smaller things in.

This is the first (and so far ONLY, lol) fairy house I've done. I loved working on it. But if I do anymore of them, I'll probably do less of the work by hand and use molds and texture plates for most of the details.

Description

This is the fairy house I made for my mother for Christmas last year. I had forgotten to take photos before I gave it to her. Since she brought it back so I can make adjustments to the roof, I figured I'd take advantage of the opportunity to take some photos too.
Altogether it took about 25 hours of work. Every detail is done by hand except for the wood grain texture on the door and shutters on the side windows.
The roses were sculpted by hand, the largest one measuring just barely over 1/4 inch. For the "stained glass" windows I made what ended up being a very large cane. Which is kind of funny since I only needed 2 slices of it.
All of the bricks for the outside, and the stones for the doorway were cut and shaped separately, textured with sandpaper, and laid, more or less, the same way real bricks would have been done. For the mortar I mixed regular clay with liquid clay until it was the right consistency.
The roof comes off so that the house can be used to store smaller things in.

This is the first (and so far ONLY, lol) fairy house I've done. I loved working on it. But if I do anymore of them, I'll probably do less of the work by hand and use molds and texture plates for most of the details.