Allyson's Miniatures
Making Your Own
Foods
Polymer clay (Fimo, Sculpey, Cernit, Promat) can be found at general craft stores, bakes hard in your home oven and has great versatility for making dollhouse foods. Cookbook pictures can provide inspiration and guidance. Here are some quick and easy foods that can be made without fimo.
Bologna: Slice a red pencil eraser.
Bread: Shape a white fabric eraser (check the quilting supplies) into a loaf shape using a craft knife and emery board. Rub the outside with golden brown chalk (or eyeshadow or powdered make-up). Slice with a single-edge razor blade or craft knife.
Lettuce: Tear green tissue paper. To add a variegated look, touch the tissue with a tiny amount of water (not enough to completely soak the piece). This lettuce can be used on a sandwich, or make a salad by adding onions sliced from a straw-shaped coffee stirrer and cherry tomatoes made from beads or fimo.
Tomato slices: These can add a lot of color to a sandwich. Just punch red circles from some of your junk-mail using a standard hole punch.
Potato chips: Let the seeds of a bell pepper dry. It's that easy! The seeds from a chile pepper look like barbecue potato chips. If you don't have a pepper, cut ovals from offwhite paper and curl them slightly around a toothpick.
Pickles: Cut the end off a toothpick and paint it, or paint grains of rice. A little brown added to the green paint gives it more of a pickle color.
Brownies: Find craft foam ("Foamies") in the craft dept. It resembles sheets of felt. The brown color is perfect for brownies. Cut a 2-inch square. Mix brown paint with white glue like Elmer's or Sobo and paint on top as icing. When dry, cut with scissors into 1/4" squares.
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