The first thing I did was make the grass to fit in the bottom of the dome. This consisted of me needle felting a very small piece of green wool into a tiny flat circle (sounds easy you say), what actually happened was I lost said piece of green wool several times, including in the foam you use for needle felting. When I finally got the shape almost right I carefully glued the 'grass' into the bottom of the dome.
Next I made the tiny toadstool from white and red felting wool. This mainly consisted of my stabbing myself repeatedly with a felting needle (if you've never seen one of these they are extremely sharp barbed needles).
After much chuntering and a bit of bleeding I had something that resembled a miniature toadstool.
So how do you get a miniature toadstool into a tiny glass dome? It was a bit of a ship in a bottle situation, but with a little more glue and a good pair of tweezers I finally succeeded.
Even gluing the metal lid to the glass dome turned into a challenge but I was really pleased with the end result.
I just hope Teresa likes it as much as she says because she has the only example of this piece of art (I doubt I'll do it ever again)
I really couldn't believe that you had made this yourself because it is sooooo tiny! It is fantastic and I think you should make lots more of them (who needs fingers anyway!!)
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