My Miniature Garden - WAMA Beginners 1st Prize

I was so surprised and excited to win First Prize in the Beginners Category with this garden at the WAMA Annual Show 2014.

The container is a frozen yogurt tub and I made pretty well everything except the rocks, and the sticks and chain for the swing. To give you an idea of scale, the swing is 2" high by 1" wide. The trees and bushes are made of jute (hairy string), wire and coloured (by me) sawdust (which was created by David). The grass is sawdust coloured with acrylic paint as well. The blossom tree and flowers at the back are wire and finely chopped kitchen sponge. The white trellis was carefully cut from a plastic tray that a cake was on. The bull-rushes are jute and brown paint. Oh and I made the birdbath and bird of polymer clay.
The new resident of this garden is the lovely and she tells me that her pet (seen here on the birdbath) is named Blaze. I hope you have many peaceful and happy days looking at the flowers and swinging on the Dewdrop!
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Community volunteers are asking you where do 3D printed objects belong. You can have your say here http://cakecrumbs.deviantart.com/journal/3D-Printed-Objects-Where-do-they-belong-399553137
The theme for this month's monthly challenge organized by Artisan Crafts galleries' volunteers is: Autumn Colours. You can learn more about monthly challenge here  http://maytel.deviantart.com/journal/October-Artisan-Crafts-Monthly-Challenge-404181939 You can see who the winners of the August monthly challenge are here http://maytel.deviantart.com/journal/August-Artisan-Crafts-Monthly-Challenge-386854420
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