I just figured out that I am Google's Blog of Note today. I was thinking, "Why the cuss are all these people coming to my site today?" I thought it was some spam thing. Anyway, after my realization I felt guilty that I didn't have anything more recent than my scratch-built tavern post from over a 2 weeks ago. I've been way busy with work and with Thanksgiving / Christmas goings-on, so I haven't been painting any models. However, I'd say this little project is appropriate.A couple days ago my daughters and I painted up 12 salt dough nisse ornaments. A "nisse" is basically a Danish Christmas gnome, although the tradition goes back to pre-Christian times. He is known as a "tomten" in Sweden. The author of Pippi Longstocking wrote a couple books about them. I painted a 20mm metal nisse last year.
Our ornament is hand-made baked dough. My wife developed a gluten free salt dough recipe. I made a cardboard template which we used to carve out the nisse shapes. We baked them, and my daughters and I painted them. It's not my usual model-making post, but the skill set is the same.
37 comments:
Happy Thanksgiving and a Merry Christmas to you and your family!! Congratulations on being a blog of note!
Congrats on BoN! Nice looking Christmas gnome. I really like miniatures so I will checking out the rest of your blog.
Awesome! Love these little fellows. Do you think you could post the recipe for the dough?
-Eli
Thanks dudes.
Eli, if you click the link in my post it takes you to my wife's blog. She has her corn starch dough recipe and the book that contained the original wheat salt dough recipe.
Thanks,
Sorry about that, for some reason I wasn't getting a link there and thought it was just bolded.
-Eli
hi... nice article
Congrats on being Notable, Andy!
Nice Danish Christmas gnome !
Good blog...well done.
Excellent blog.
Nice blog......nice collection of miniatures.
Above all, congratulations to be "Blog of Note"
What an appealing little fellow !
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thanks friend....
Great minitures - congrats on your Blog of Note-ness!
Nice site and design! Quite useful article..
this article is very nice (:
I just discovered your blog through the "Blogs of Note," and I'm already a fan. My grandfather was really into miniatures, so I'm glad to have stumbled across your blog.
Congrats on noteworthyness. Loving the nisse.
Congrats from me and Tomten ;-)
Congrates on being a blog of note! Nice blog!
Excellent stuff
Congrats on the Blogs of Note.
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I used to have a 'nisse' statue, but I lost it recently during a move. I'll have to try making some of those salt dough gnomes, though. Thanks for the information! I love European history!
Congratulations on your Blogs of Note.
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Nice Gnome!
Congrats! That's a great achievement. Keep up the good work, I love your blog.
This blog is really nice and nice collection of miniaturs also..
cute little Santa out there.. anyway the owner of this blog are very creative. love your blog.
Thanks for all the comments, folks!
Blog of note. You deserve it. Well done. We know them as Pippie langkouse in afrikaans.
congrats
Nice post and really interesting.
Keep it up.
Congratulations on being a "Blog of Note!" Your miniture painting is remarkable. My wife used to build doll houses, and make her own miniature furniture and such. She loved doing that.
David
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Salt dough is the win. Also, ever played any Warhammer?
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nice
These are awesome!
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