Instructors: Gene Fisk and Melissa Darnell

• Materials/Tools Needed:

• foam board (I would say about two sheets)

• sharp craft knife

• glue 

• straight pins 

• masking tape 

• paint or wallpaper 

• wooden strips cut long enough to make frame for front 

• miniatures for desired scene

Wednesday’s Lesson: Electrifying Your Room Box or Vignette

Materials/Tools Needed:

•  miniature wiring kit (round wire recommended for rooms made from wood, copper tape in the double row, plastic covered version recommended for rooms made from foam core board)

Materials/Tools Needed:

• 1 length soft brass tubing, .090" OD

• 1 length soft brass tubing, .125" OD

• tubing bender or grooved 1/2" dowel

• tubing cutter or fine-toothed jeweler's saw

• small screw head countersink

• 1 flat-back filigree medallion-type jewelry finding, 30 to 60 mm, to be used as a ceiling plate

• 2 30 mm flat-back stone settings with swedge holes, center hole not more than 1/8"

• 4 pearlized white plastic rings

• 4 gold bell caps

• 4 miniature lamps with attached wires

• 1 length 24 or 26 gauge insulated wire, 18" long

• G.E. Silicone Seal

• brass paint

• Aron-Alpha or Krazy glue

• epoxy glue

• florist's wire

• bread dough (or polymer clay) for making roses, or flowers and leaves removed from old jewelry

• plastic doily for ceiling decoration

Lesson #3: Inspiring Room Boxes and Vignettes

Materials/Tools Needed:

• 1 package of Fimo, any color

• fine casting plaster (look for Plaster of Paris or similiar product at any department store or arts and crafts store)

• decorative plastic, wood, or metal finding (such as a decorative small belt buckle, a knob for a drawer pull, or large button)

• water

Lesson #4: More Inspiring Room Boxes and Vignettes