Didn't I say I've been painting some extremely small miniatures these days?? I was contacted several weeks ago by a very nice lady, Joy, from Australia, who found me through my ETSY shop. She is part of a worldwide miniatures club on Yahoo and as the name states, they have members all over the globe.
Joy asked if I would be willing to paint some very small mini's for her club and because I like a challenge and was quite intrigued, I said I would do some work for her.
If I ever thought that eggart was small and hard to work with, I think I have rethought that notion. The spools are a bit difficult to hold and because of the way they curve, a challenging surface to paint on.
The thimbles however, are the biggest challenge because they are just, in a couple of words, super tiny!!! I actually ended up painting the thimbles by sticking them over one of my fingers(after all, that is what they were meant to do) and that made creating the design a bit easier then trying to just hold them in my hand.
So these little ones have been shipped to Australia already and are probably, by now, on their way to their new homes around the world. I will be doing some ongoing work for this club so I'll have more photos to show of new mini's as they are completed.
Remember a while back I did some work for the Worldwide Miniatures Club?? I've been doing some more miniatures this week.....I had an order for thimbles and for thread spools. I knew the thimbles would be the hardest because they are so small so, I painted the thimbles first. 
The hardest to do was the little Hummingbird and I really thought that I might not be able to complete that one, I figured I would give it my best shot anyway. To my surprise, I was able to paint the hummer on this tiny surface. After this lot was completed, I really felt like I needed a good stiff cup of tea!!!
I had really wanted to show some beautiful butterfly pictures that I had taken last month but my computer is down at the moment and I'm afraid, all the photos I've taken are down with it. Hopefully it will be back up and running tomorrow once again and then I'll have access to all my photographs, in the meantime, I can at least use Chris's laptop. It has been one of those weeks.....how does that saying go.....when it rains it pours!!
