Expand your miniature garden zoo to let in pets or favorite animals , like this sprig Rangifer tarandus . Consider bantam spruce ramification for capitulum or furry antler and employ tiny Christmas balls or twinkle cut from ornaments to decorate them . You will sure enough find an teemingness of miniature trade supplies at your local craft fund , just look for the miniature Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree decorating section .
This task come to us direct from the Miniature Garden Guru herself , Janit Calvo . Janit is the author of the wildly successful bookGardening in Miniature . you may see more of Janit ’s miniature garden project here on Garden Therapy , or over at theTwo Green Thumbs Miniature Garden Center .
Materials
Make it !
Use branch cutters ( long - wield pruners ) so you’re able to get some gracious straight cuts of wood without any effort . Stand on the end of the branch to keep it steady while make small pieces or tailor on the diagonal .
Make a rough layout of all the pieces you demand first . Remember the tiny details like the neck and tail .
reduce twigs on a aslope to fit into each other seamlessly . Drill holes where the little twigs will fit into the branches with an befittingly - sized drill bit .
Sand the sharpness of each firearm . Assemble by supply some wood mucilage or blistering glue into the golf hole and inserting the twigs .
Tips for Making Miniature Log Animals
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To see all of Janit ’s vacation approximation atTwo Green Thumbs Miniature Garden Center , including smaller Tree for indoor scenes , colored light and tiny Christmas laurel wreath , clickhere .
For more on Miniature Gardening , get Janit ’s best - selling book , horticulture in Miniature : make Your Own diminutive Living World .
Janit Calvo is an artist , miniaturist , gardener , and enterpriser . Janit resides with her married man in a full - size of it theatre and garden in Seattle . Inspired by her first miniature garden ’s recollective liveliness and easy maintenance , Janit start Two Green Thumbs Miniature Garden Center in 2001 . She has won many garden and miniature show awards , and her gardens have seem in the Seattle Times , Dig Magazine , and Dollhouse Miniature Magazine .
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