How to make your own Hobbiton Miniature Garden
Look what I made! It's a Hobbiton miniature garden - complete with Hobbits! I made this project for my brand new gig as editor over on Crafttuts+. Please come over and say hello if you love making stuff - I've pulled together an awesome team of contributors including Kitiya Palaskas, Lisa Tilse from The Red Thread and Cinti from My Poppet. They're making some really cool stuff and the tutorials are high quality with lots of beautiful photography. And we've got some gorgeous Christmas tutorials lined up for the festive season.
We've been running a series of geek-themed craft at Crafttuts+, so I thought I'd get my get my Tolkien geek on to celebrate the world premiere of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey in Wellington yesterday. I love miniature gardens and terrariums and I've always wanted to make a themed one, so this felt like the perfect opportunity.
In the tutorial, I take you through in step-by-step detail how to make each element for your Hobbiton miniature garden, including the teeny-tiny toadstools (hint: red nail varnish gives the most brilliant shine!). I will also show you how to plan and landscape your garden, and what plants are most suitable for your micro cosmos. Click here for my Crafttuts+ tutorial.
What do you think? Are you a Lord of the Rings fan? Do you like miniature gardens? Tell me in the comments below.
Photography by Lucas Boyd.
