Miniature Hot Cocoa Bar

Happy Saturday everyone.  As temperatures drop and the holidays approach it's hot cocoa season! 

This miniature hot cocoa bar started with a GSL Workshop Table 1:12 This table works really well because it has three separate horizontal spaces to place the tiny bits on. There is the top shelf that fits right into the back wall of the unit, another lower shelf that fits between the side supports and a nice large main work space. Tacky glue is used to assemble the entire piece.

 

The next piece I worked with was the GSL Mini Picnic Basket 1:12 Scale, available from Alpha Stamps.  The basket's weave comes from sections that are stacked and glued together. It comes with handles which I chose not to use for this project. Once assembled I painted the basket brown.

Since this is a winter time project, I chose one of the GSL Icicles Roof and Window Trims also available at Alpha Stamps and painted it with white acrylic paint. 

 

It fits perfectly on the front of the table. 

Every hot cocoa bar needs marshmallows! Mine were made from white polymer clay.

 

Once baked, I put them in a small glass jar embellished with baker's twine. I also filled one with peppermint polymer clay cane slices. 

 

Another element of the cocoa bar is a tiny GSL 1 to 12 Gingerbread House.

 

After assembling and painting, I decorated it with polymer clay candy slices.

 

Here's how it came together.  In addition to the marshmallows and peppermints, I made a few sugar sprinkle spoons from wood stirrers and microbeads. The cinnamon sticks are curls of polymer clay, the donuts are made from paperclay and the cocoa is resin colored with acrylic paint.

 

Joining the gingerbread house on the bottom shelf are a small snowy tree and a pair of mittens made of felt.

Happy holidays, everyone!

GSL Products Used

Workshop Table 1:12 

Mini Picnic Basket 1:12 Scale

Icicles Roof and Window Trims

1 to 12 Gingerbread House

Other Products Used

Tacky glue

Acrylic paint

Polymer clay

Polymer clay cane slices

Paper clay

Resin

Microbeads

Miniature dishes & bottles

 

Miniature Cocktail Bar

Happy Saturday, everyone! With the weather warming up, we're gearing up for outdoor entertaining again. A few years ago we purchased a potting bench and turned it into an outdoor party bar. I was inspired to recreate it in miniature using a GSL Workshop Table 1:12

I started by laying out the pieces. It has a rear section with legs, front legs, two side pieces, a small upper shelf and a lower shelf.  There is also a large horizontal workspace. 

Using tacky glue I adhered the upper shelf to the back of the bench, the lower shelf into the side leg sections and gave everything a coat of gesso before gluing the front legs and horizontal work space into place.

While that was drying, I made a towel bar by removing the ends from a cotton swab and painting it silver. I used two silver beads on each end of the swab to hold the bar in place.

I chose a raw umber acrylic paint for the final finish and fashioned a hand towel from a small piece of fabric with miniature ric rac glued onto the front.

The finished towel bar was glued onto the front of the bench with E6000 glue.

Since this is meant to be an outdoor bar, I added a few jar candles to the bottom shelf. Those were made by stuffing polymer clay into the jars and adding a snip of black wire for the wicks before baking. 

For the top shelf, I glued on some resin soda bottles & some small plastic martini glasses. The bottle of rum is a porcelain feve, which would typically be hidden inside a king cake during Mardi Gras. I knew I needed some sort of snack to go along with the cocktails so baked off some chunks of cheese made from polymer clay.

The main workspace contains two more feve bottles and an ice bucket made by gluing in clear bits of plastic I bought years ago. I think it might be vase filler. The lemon and lime slices are cut from polymer clay canes and glued onto a small scrap of wood which serves as a cutting board. The dish contains fine crystal glitter, which is what I used on the rim of the lemon drop cocktail I fashioned from ice resin tinted with a bit of yellow oil paint. There are two other ice resin projects on the scrap of blue wood; a pitcher of cranberry juice and a pink cosmopolitan. The final touch was a miniature cocktail recipe book. 

Here's a photo of the full size original.

 Thanks for stopping by!

GSL Products Used

Workshop Table 1:12

Other Products Used

Tacky glue

E6000 glue

Gesso

Acrylic paint

Cotton swab

Silver beads

Fabric and wood scraps

Miniature ric rac

Glass jars

Black wire

Polymer clay 

Polymer clay canes

Miniature bottles, glassware, dishes, book, bucket, knife

Ice resin