Stocking up the pantry and kitchen

Hello again

This week I have been playing around with Fimo polymer clay and making some food for the kitchen and the pantry. Below you can see the finished food on the tables and on the floor of the pantry.

Roast chicken for dinner....mmmm !!!

I also needed some sacks to put the potatoes and flour in so I made a couple from canvas that I had then I stamped some logos onto them with a small alphabet set and Stayzon ink pad.

Now I have 3 sacks of potatoes to go into the pantry

The Pantry

Still looks quite empty at the moment but will fill up eventually

 Some food ready to be baked in the oven, it takes 30 minutes to cure the clay then it is hard

colouring the apples with chalk pastels then baking them

the real potato is in the photo just to show the scale it wasn't cooked

again I coloured the potatoes with chalk pastels

I needed a sink base unit and had a welsh dresser that was not Georgian at all so I halved it and used the bottom for my sink. I took out the middle section and made a wooden sink and painted it .

this was the welsh dresser I altered.

Next was the sink for the scullery. I made a double sink with Bass wood painted it then added the pipe work underneath and added 3 legs

Also added tiny we taps too.

 In the corner is the Copper where all the household linnen was boiled it was a brick construction with a copper tub inside and was heated from below with a fire, you can see the little door at the bottom

It was made from a gravy tub and Bass wood with brick paper for the outside and the top is Bass wood

The inside is the bottom of a plastic cup trimmed to fit and painted copper

I borrowed the maid ( Niamh calls her Silly Sally lol ) from the Victorian house next door to let you see the how the Scullery will look and I have now noticed that the lights in the basement rooms are too low so that's something I will have to fix.

You can see the light here is far too low.

 The stairs in the back of the Scullery lead up to the ground floor entrance hall

 Back to the main kitchen now and you can see I also borrowed the Cook from next door too. Ready to slice the bread sticks and serve dinner...

Lights in here need fixed too

That's it for this week I'll be working on some of the uptairs rooms next and may also do some work to the outside of the house too, I'll keep you posted. Thanks for your visit see you next time 😍

DISASTER !!! at Dalton Manor (beware this is a long post get a cuppa before you start)

Well there I was sitting in my craft room making pictures to hang in the dolls house Dining room when suddenly I heard a CRASH ! 

 Looking round I discovered it was my chandelier in the Morning room which, in true Only Fools and Horses fashion had fallen and crashed onto the Morning room floor. On further inspection (sounding like Sherlock Holmes here ) I discovered that the wire had snapped. I don't know how but there it was. I've rewired it and thought it was fine then plugged it into the house electrics and blew the fuse.....3 times. So I've now had to send for another light and fuses.....clearly I'm no electrician lol.

the broken chandelier 😭

Moving on from my disaster to much better things. A few pics of one of the picture frames I made ...had great fun doing this we project...they are very ornate as all Georgian decor was and very gold.

I used dado rail to make the frame and decorated it with some mouldings that I made with liquid Fimo (wonderful stuff ) then painted the whole thing with Liquid Leaf which gives a lovely gold shine.

You can see the finished picture later on in the Morning room and also more frames that I made in the Dining room. You will notice that I changed the picture to a lovely female one.

I decided that the Morning room panels were not ornate enough for the Georgian period so I changed them. I downloaded some Chinese blue wallpaper and made 4 wall panels and again decorated them in the same way as the frames.  They really lift the room into the Georgian period. Next I added some moulding to the front of the Charles 111 window seat.... it needed to be more golden...pics below..

adding the mouldings

 Making the moulds

adding some gold to the moulds and a gold border and corners to the room

Charles 111 window seat with moulding

Love this picture

No curtains yet that will come later

no chandelier

Dining room pictures and a few more to be added around the house although I still need to make more.

The Kitchen Rooms

A further update on the kitchen rooms, below are pics of how it looks so far.

Doors are oak stained this time as below stairs ( as it was called) was mostly wood decor with only cupboards and maybe tables got painted but not white usually green ,cream or blue

The scullery with stair leading to the entrance hall and the pantry where all the food was stored. I still have to wire the lights in here and add the sinks and a copper (a copper boiler which was heated with a fire underneath and bricked all round and was usually in the corner)  I've also added a few shelves

Fire has been added to the kitchen range

Lights on and fire glowing..beginning to look better now did you notice the ceiling beams ? These were used to hang numerous things like pots and pans and utensils among other stuff. Still to add cupboards and sink and maybe another table ....

 pots and utensils hanging above the range

 to the left is the pantry and then we have the servants hall. This is where the servants and butler and housekeeper relaxed and had their meals. It's also where all the china and silverware was kept sometimes under lock and key.  A corner might be reserved for the housekeeper to do the accounts.

 making the beams

Well if you made it to the end of this post well done you deserve a cuppa. The house is beginning to look a lot more lived in now but still a long way to go. Until next time thanks for your visit and all your lovely comments xxx