A few days ago, several members of the Inching Along Club of San Antonio, TX were privileged to have artisan Vikki Meeker as our instructor for a one-day class. I am still in the early stages of recovering from my recent gastrointestinal surgery, but so very glad I hauled myself out of bed for this!
The theme was “A Tuscan Still Life” (my finished vignette is pictured here), and we had a wonderful time creating our project and learning new techniques under Vikki’s helpful guidance! She showed us how to build the shadow box and bench seat and create an aged-plaster look to the interior surfaces. Then we made our choices of drapery material and color of velvet, labeled and placed our wine bottles, and arranged our fruit & cheese platters. We antiqued our frames, and one of the prints Vikki provided for the frame looked very much like a photo my husband took while he was traveling through Europe! I added a turned malachite candle stick (created by Gerda van Dijk) with a real wax candle and a rather battered/well used pitcher to my vignette. Great fun – thank you again, Vikki!
P.S. Comments welcome – I don’t think anyone is reading!
Tags: Miniatures, Tuscany, vignette