Hello Steemians! Today, I will delightfully illustrate and show you our immensely precious DIY project that my husband and I did for the last 2 funny lovely days… yes you read it right! T-W-O full days! You might think this is just a very easy project but believe me it’s the opposite… it consumed our time and patience while doing it however in return, it turned out to be a valuable quality time of bonding as a happy couple. Without further ado, please spend some time in reading this post of mine. Thank you in advance. ^_^
I call this project of ours ”Our Enchanted Farm”, why? Because this farm has everything that I dream of, I will not look nor ask for anything more…
Things You Need :
Now, let’s do the ’How To: this is not in chronological order but what I will be posting is the order how I consider the easiest to the hardest part of doing this project.
SHED
Get few of the small popsicle sticks cut them together on your preferred size, attach the sides forming a shed and then use the other half of the sticks as a stand and you’re done.
PLANT BED
Very simple, cut the big size popsicle sticks into half and glue all the ends to form a rectangular size of the plant bed.
BASKET
Cut the popsicle sticks in small pieces in rectangular shapes. Bend it to form a small circle and use a glue gun to attach the bended rectangular shape popsicle sticks forming a basket. Use a tiny stick and put a glue on both ends, bend it a little more to make a handle for your basket.
CARROTS
Get a piece of orange clay, a needle or anything that has sharp edge (please be careful) and few strips of your green plants. Roll the orange color into an oval shape but make the other end into a triangular rounded pointed tip. Use the tip of your needle to make a small hole on the oval part of your clay to put the strips of the leaves.
MUSHROOM
Get a piece of colors white, red and yellow clay and few ends of cut tiny short skewers. Roll the yellow clay covering the skewer stick. Next is to shape the white clays in circle, slightly flattened forming an umbrella and attach on one end of the yellow clay covered skewer stick. For the final touch, embed some small circle shape red clays of different sizes on top of the mushroom by carefully pushing into the top white clay.
CHAIRS and TABLE
Cut in small pieces a few of popsicle sticks in small rectangle as well as some skewers which will be the legs of the table and legs/back support of the chair. Glue all the skewer sticks on all edges of the rectangle popsicle stick in upright position to form a chair/table and attach the back support for the chair.
BONFIRE
Cut 3 short pieces of skewer sticks and tie them all together at one end with a string which will serve as a top part of the bonfire. Spread out the other ends of the skewers to form a triangle shape which will then attach on the board using your glue gun. Glue some stones on the sides and form a circle. Then hang a small basket over the fire. You can use an LED light to make a fire.
CART WHEEL
Use few square shaped popsicle sticks and a stone to use as a wheel. Make a triangle shape and cover it with popsicle sticks, use skewer if you want to use as handles, you can also use the popsicle sticks if you wish to.
FENCE
Mark the skewers for the preferred length or height of the fence and cut as many as needed, once done, use two long skewer (preferably cut into half for easy bending fence for bended pathway) as a foundation while attaching the cut skewers into the foundation by using a string to form a fence.
FOUNTAIN
Get a piece of a half skewer, shells and stones; glue the stones into the skewer to make a pole, attach the 3 different sizes of the shells onto the pole. Lastly, put the melted glue sticks on top of the shells and use it as a flowing water.
WISHING WELL
Use any circle shaped object, attach the skewers on the object to form a well and cover it with stones. Now, get few twigs and use it as a stand, glue them altogether to form an arc shape. Cut a string of about 4 inches in length, tie one end at the center of the arc and tie a pail on the other end of a string that will be hanged over the well.
HOUSE – THE ATTIC
Form a triangle shape using the spare square shaped popsicle sticks and glue them altogether.
HOUSE – THE BODY OF THE HOUSE
Cut the plastic bottle into half. Use iron to remove the sharp edges of the bottle this is an alternative if you don’t have sandpaper. Using glue gun, attach the stones onto the upper part of the plastic bottle – the triangular shape, leaving the other half clean. Cut some popsicle sticks into small rectangular pieces and use spray paint of any desired color, I used brown(ish) color to make it a little old(ish). To finish it off, attach them to the lower body of the bottle using glue gun forming a brick design wall.
HOUSE – DOOR
Using the small popsicle sticks cut in to 2 rectangular shapes which will serve as the door. To make the frame of the door, cut 4 sticks, 2 for the sides and one for the top and one for the bottom part. Attach the ends using a glue forming a rectangular frame. Afterwards, attach the door on the frame. Use 2 cloth pins as door knobs.
HOUSE – MUSHROOM ROOF
Get a piece of paper and draw a circle bigger than your lid and cut it and further cut the round shape paper into halves. Roll the paper attaching it end to end forming a cone shape. Another layer is added by using aluminum foil as fillers and attach it on top of your lid. Attach the cone shape paper on top of the aluminum foil filler then cover it with red color clay as the final layer. To finish it off, add small white round clays of different sizes and press it gently on the roof.
HOUSE – STAIRS
Use the popsicles to form a stair.
Now that we are done with the How To, below are the pictures of:
Layout
Focus is all you need here… you need to focus in setting-up this miniature project. To make this more a lil realistic, my husband added LED lights where they are needed. ^_^
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And now that we are done, I would like to give my personal comment on this... I consider this project as well planned and executed not because we were the one who made this but because we gave our full time in doing this from planning to execution. Also, the time spent were valuable and showcased the artistic side of ourselves, we even considered this as a productive experience of ours . Doing this has tested our patience as well; doing a miniature is not an easy task, it may seem to look like one but believe me it is not. Side note, we argued while doing this project… reason? We both have different ideas in setting this project up! ^_^ Yeah, what a petty thing haha! But after doing this we’ve managed to highlight the attitudes we’ve shown towards each other and to our project. I can literally say Patience is a Virtue. And this made the experience worthy.
I hope you’ve not been bored reading this post of mine and learned something out of it. c”,)
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Once again, thank you for dropping by… until then 
Lodi! Color me amazed. The 2 days were worth it. That's a crazy mini-farm art with so many wonderful little details. Awesome job! Hardwork and cooperation really pays off hehe
thank you po @jazzhero! salamat din po sa help! i know what you did behind the scene c",)
Welcome, @lhyn. Hehe. How di you know?😅
Anyway, your post definitely deserves that big upvote and curie recognition. Congratulations!
i saw the convo between you and the other lady ^_^ i actually read it :) i joined the discord channel. i did not see when and whom you'd submitted my post but the convo itself said it all :) salamat po ulit sir! :)
Haha. I see :D Well, so you know too that if it wasn't me, someone else would have submitted it. It's such a good post that everybody else recognized as curie-worthy. I just had good timing hehe. Great job!
thanks po ulit :) i really appreciate it. because of that my post was featured 4x and resteemed many times and reached 48 rep now! lahat first time po! overwhelming ^_^
Hahaha. That is incredible. Well done sis!
Btw, i soo love the carrot and mushroom, they look super cute. X
thank you very much sis! nice to know you love those sweet lil things xx
wowww!!! 😍😍😍
A for Affort!!! hahaha sooo gandaaa and sooo tsagaaa!! 😍😍😍
its really the quality time spent... 😍😍😍
ahaha T for Thank you?! haha
it's the quality time spent indeed! ^_^
as well many things to economy to find out those things.
^_^ thanks for dropping by @tetas08
Wow,I must say this is a beautiful work,nice post
thank you @asekevwe ^_^
Wow wow wow..
Thanks alot for this post, I really learnt alot and acquired knowledge while reading this article..
It's nice...
Thanks once more and looking forward to more good post like this from you.
With lots of love.
aww thank you @uche-nna! ^_^ nice to know that you've learnt something out of this post of mine.
It's my pleasure..
You inspire me...
🖤🖤🖤
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thanks again @steemph.uae! ^_^
Well done sister....I really like your post photographe and article thanks for sharing your post
thank you @mamun123456! ^_^
Wow! Wow again! I'm stunned. This is breathtaking, you can see the passion and dedication in the layout. It's really beautiful, if only by a miracle it becomes a lifesized farm, I'd live on it.
thank you @bookoons! ^^ appreciate the nice words. if this comes to life you are very much welcome to stay and live here! ^^
Amazing effort, amazing results @lhyn. Upvoted and followed.
thank you @jap60! ^_^ followed you as well.
wow. amazing
thank you @wildthoughts! ^_^
Hi, im Samantha. I love your diy post. That is very cute, you both are amazing and hardworking. Good job! Followed you!
hello @joyce86! ^_^ thank you for your kind words and for following, followed you back.
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thank you @arcange! ^^ i really appreciate the feature of my post and your upvote! ^^
That is so enchanting, is it preparing you guys for making a full size farm in the future or just enjoying each others time together with a side of patience.
hello @biglipsmama ^^ thank you for dropping by. to answer your question - both! :) we would like to have our own lil farm in the future but honestly depends on the budget ^^ so for the meantime just enjoying some quality time together with lots of patience hihihi
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thank you @cabelindsay! thank you for discovering my post that is now featured by @OCD, i really appreciate it! ^_^
Spending two days into something is not ordinary. You have created a fine art with a lot of creativity and that's a lot of effort too as well as passion.
thank you for your kind words. we didn't know that we have that artistic side until we finished off this project of ours and lots of effort and passion were really put in it indeed! thanks for dropping by @jerome-morales ^_^
Galing!
thank you sis ^_^
this is super amazing madam, please give us moreeeee. i am following u.
thank you @purpletanzanite ^_^ followed you back as well :) might do something similar in the near future... once we know what we are going to do hihihi thanks for dropping by!
Wow!!! You are a DIY Ninja indeed!!! Very nicely done. Looks like a long tedious process but I'm glad you got some quality time with the husband. And an awesome outcome. Great job and really happy you got the big upvote! you deserve it!
thank you miss @alphasteem ^_^ thanks for your kind words :) i am glad i got those big upvotes from you guys and received all the help i can get hihihi c",)
hard work really pays off honey! congrats!
thank you honey! congrats to both of us! qly! ^_^
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amazing crafts!
awww thank you very much po! ^_^
Very nice post. Keep it up
thank you po! ^_^