Scene: Beach hut

This is a scene of which I have talked a lot about in previous posts, but, as it occurred with the beach kiosk, I never uploaded pictures once it was finished.  So here they are!

General view.  I added a floor to hold everything together

The animal toys were a gift from a coworker

The kids have their own play area, with a play tent, a pail with a shovel, and some water proof animals.  

A big floatie waiting to be used, and a seagull stealing some French fries

The barbecue is lit, and some good things are being cooked.  We have ligher fluid, matches and a bag of charcoal (it sounds when you shake it, I don't remember if I did that or if it came like this).

We also have a tray of uncooked meat, ketchup and mustard bottles, and some skewers being cooked on the grill.  A tray with pretzels is already prepared.

 

Let's go inside...

How cosy! We even have a lamp!

Lamp removed so you can see the clock

 

My main purpose to put a floor was so the doors to the hut could swivel.  Otherwise I would have had to glue them in position.  Let's peek inside (for your comfort viewing, I will remove the roof):  

A nice straw carpet allow us to leave the shoes outside and feel like at home.  A long table with director chairs to sit comfortably while eating.  Some coastal pictures are a must as well.

On the left side you can see an organizing cube shelf.  Boxes with extra shoes (just in case ours get wet), and some more stuff to eat and drink.

Aerial view of the organization

We have another bag with groceries (all handmade by me, except the milk bottles).  We have Oreo cookies, and several bags of chips.  On the shelf we have bags of Gummy bears, a couple of pizza boxes, a bucket of KFC pieces, some wine and spirit bottles, a box of cookies and a couple of Twinings tea tins.  We are not going hungry!

 

You can see the table all set up with placemats, cutlery, napkins, coasters, glasses and a bottle of wine.  The decorated plates I made hold some burgers.  On the beach bag we have a can of Pringles, a bag of chips and a bottle of water, in case we take a walk. We have some clean towels on the rack, waiting to be used, and an extra pillow (it's there because it didn't came out very well after sewing it, but still looks pretty enough).  

We have cupboards holding tupperwares, bowls, glasses, plates and mugs.  Under the sink we have some cleaning supplies, and some preserves and a cereal box.  The little drawers hold more napkins and more cutlery.  Over the counter we have a roll of kitchen towels with Angel fishes, a bowl with fresh lemons, more cutlery, a jar of instant coffee and my beloved tuna cans and pinapple cans.  There's also a sponge, dishwasher and a tea towel.

I absolutely loved making this.  I had so many ideas for it, and it was fun making them reality.  As of today, it is finished, although I may end up adding some extra cans of food, you never know...

 

Scene: Beach Kiosk

Remember when, a long time ago now, I talked about doing a newsstand or magazine kiosk?  Well, finally it got turned into a beach kiosk.  These kind of shops are very popular near Spanish beaches, and you can find many of them alongside a promenade if you take a walk.

It's been many months (dare I even say years?) since it was finished, but yesterday I realized I haven't post pictures, so here they are:

I have placed it in one of the shelves in my study

A vintage gum ball machine, and fridge with cold sodas

Plenty of magazines to choose from

I spent weeks making the magazines, but I had a blast.  I designed all of them myself with Photoshop, and all of them have an ad in the back of the same theme the magazine is about.  For example, the dollhouses magazines have an ad for miniatures; the bridal magazines for wedding gowns.  And so on and so forth.  Each magazine has 5 double pages inside and they are glued shut to keep them realistic-looking.  There are lot of them: about 55 magazines of various subjects (bridal, nature, cinema, miniatures, decoration...); there is also some comic-books (both DC and Marvel, featuring my favorite characters), some Sudokus and puzzles, and child and adult coloring books - the children ones include a box of crayons!

There are also snacks: chips, chocolate bars, the gum ball machine, and of course, water and sodas.

I'm sure you will find something to your liking!

Get a snack while you are at it!

And since we are near the beach there are also beach bags, mats,  beach chairs, fishing nets, ping-pong sets, flip-flops, sunscreens and some souvenirs: lighthouses, glass buoys and some beach shells for your mini collection.

There's also some beach balls, pinwheels and pails. 

It was so much fun making this!  I bought stuff from a lot of different talented vendors, some things I made myself, and some were some bits and bobs I had lying about.  Sometimes I catch myself thinking what more I can include, and if I find something that I like I will buy it for sure.  Until then, this is it.

Free printable! Pinapple can pack of three

Remember those tiny tuna cans from which I made some paper wrappers?  Well, here I am again making wrappers, this time for pinapple cans:

 

I also took a real wrapper, scanned it, cleaned it, reduced it and print it to fit my round cans. 

The tiny cans

Love it!

If you want to make this project, here you can find the tiny cans, and here you can get the free printable to download and print.  Bear in mind you need 3 cans for each wrapper.  And if you don't want to buy them, you can make the cans with polymer clay or foamboard.  Or you can use small empty button batteries.

 

As always, please feel free to print as many times as you like, gift them to friends and pass the file along to anyone (links back are nice too!).  Just please do not sell the file or your creations.  Thank you and enjoy! ♥

Ladureé cart update #2

After the fiasco of the too-tall legs, I had to pry them off the cart, sand them, and attach them again.  That did not take long.  Then I started crafting a cover for the roof, and more covers for the edges.  It was very easy to print some cardboard and paint the pieces mint green:

Edges...

... and roof cover

 I attached everything with regular white glue, and the results were very good:

Edges before...

... and after

Roof covered successfully!

Now,  I could probably do some more details to the cart to make it look even more pefect, but I was happy with what I have achieved here.  I think this is the most time I have dedicated to set up a scene ever.  I am very proud of the results, and with all the modifications I made.  I really did not expect for it to look this good:

I have two shelves left, that were supposed to go in both sides of the cart, so people could use them to support stuff, but I am not glueing them just because the real Ladureé carts do not have them - in a way, I agree, they break the lines of the cart.  So I will just keep them, in case I can use them for some other thing, or if I change my mind.

Now, since the construction of the cart took many days, and since I simply hate painting and glueing, I dedicated the time between sessions to print and assemble loads of boxes to decorate it.  All the boxes come from Zena's Miniatures - she has plenty of macaron boxes.  However, I changed the logos to feature the Ladureé logo.  I had bought these printables almost a year ago, and I was dying to make them!

Aren't they adorable?

The green set to the right was bought a long time ago, and it is no longer available, but I wanted to include it as well.  I also could bring out the fabulous clear display, the trays and the tongs:

The trays fit perfectly!

Waiting to be filled up with delicious macarons

The shelf unit and the contents all come from Beautifully Handmade.  Of course, I still have to craft all the tiny macarons that will be on the trays, but I will do that when the heat of Summer decreases, so I can work the polymer clay easier.  

While searching for inspo, I found this picture:

 

Detail that was very inspirational...

 

This tote bag really got my attention.  Specially because one of my providers sells a bag that is practically the same design!  So I bought it, and tried to recreate it to the best of my ability.  This is what I made:

 

The boxes are part of Zena's kits, and the bag and the bottle come from Tienda de Casitas.  The bottle was originally like this:

A camping thermos (stock photo)

I designed a label with the corporate green color and Ladureé logo.  I printed it on latex adhesive paper, and it looks so nice you cannot see where the edges meet.  So happy with it, and so proud of myself!  I removed the cup, and used it in another scene.  I used this bottle in the display counter as inspiration:

And here are some pics of the whole cart, already filled:

Poster taken from a Ladureé real menu

 

The poster with the macarons was made by scanning a real menu that I was given with my order in July 2025.  

Now, except for the mararons, it is practically finished.  I am thinking of trying to find a glass counter like the one in the real picture and fill it up with stuff.  We'll see if that is doable.  In the meantime, I am so happy with my cart!  

Ladureé cart update

The work in the cart continues.  

Picking up where I left, I painted the cart legs, and while they were drying, I also painted the posts of the cart in gold, and added a fine line of gold to the trim.  I cheated and did this with a gold Edding pen:

Now glueing the wheels:

Then I attached the legs:

After this, I finally set up the "table" for the counter:

As the counter table is made of foamboard, I did not like the look of the edges, so in an attempt to cover them, I cut a paper trim of 6 mm, painted it green, and applied it to the edges:

It's starting to look good!

Next step was preparing the roof.  I took the covers I made the previous day and added more layers of green paint.  After that, it was very easy to attach them to the structure:

I love them, but I will cover all the edges with papers, just as I did with the "table".  

I was ready to call it a day after this, but then I noticed that one side of the cart looked higher than the other, so I used a lever to check, and OMG, what a disaster!

Oh noes!!

The bubble is supposed to be centered, so I have no other recourse than to remove the legs, sand them to measure and glue them again.  But that will come the next day.

More soon!