This Mess

 

The full scene.

Lipstick on the cup and mug is, well, lipstick.

Front view of sink. Not easy to see here, but I simulated the "gunk" that gathers on a bottle of dish detergent with Gallery Glass stain (sunflower).

View from the top. I knicked the "cane" of the Chrysonbon chair to make it look old and unraveled.

Kitty really wants his kibble. The sink drainpipe are two bendy straws put together.

This was another throw-together-in-a-weekend project. I'd been thinking about and saving stuff for the scene for some time.

When I was in high school my girlfriend's mother had a sign in her kitchen "This mess is a place." It tickled me. Recently, when I was experimenting with making mini bubble bath scenes I discvoered that clear beads look like dirty sudsy water rather than pretty bubble bath (use pearlescent beads for bubble bath).

I made the bag of tipped over pet food (is it the cat's or the dog's? It's the cat's now) from a bag filled with a mixure of tiny beads, glue, and burnt umber paint. Plaque made by me (obviously). The sink, Chrysonbon chair and Chrysonbon plates/cups/bowls were purchases at mini shops that collected in my cabinet. The dog, ditto.

Purchased for the room from Mainly Minis: Cat, dog bowl, dish detergent bottle, cat towel holder and towel, and checkerboard mug. (Mainly Minis has the coolest accessories.)

Scroll down for close-ups. This scene now resides in my kitchen.


 

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