Vintage

 Vegetable Tray/Dip
The next project is that of the vegetable tray and dip. The dip was made from Sceneic Water with Scenic Milk added and a bit of real dill sprinkled on top. I used a metal ice cream cup for the dip container which I painted gold. Still keeping with the 50th anniversary gold. For the vegeatable tray, I chose a rectangle shaped metal miniature serving fray which I painted gold.

After painting the tray gold, I made the different veggies for the tray. Again, I use Fimo® to make all on the tray.

The carrots are made from orange and transparent fimo. Each carrot was shapped individually but creating a snake like shape. Pinching off a small ball. Then rolling that ball into a oblong carrot shape.

The brocolli was made from green, blue and transparent clay. Again, I formed a long snake shape. After pinching off a small piece and shaping into a ball, I rolled it into a small think snake shape. Holding the clay at the end, I used the sharp end of a toothpick to form the flowerets. I did the same for the cauliflower. For the pimento stuffed olives, I mixed green, brown, yellow, and transparent clay until I had the proper olive color. I made snake shapes of the olive color and with some of the red left ofver from the strawberries. I pinched off a bit of the green and formed a tiny oblong ball. Then I did the same with the red only smaller. using a toothpick, I pushed the red into the olive oblong ball. For the pickles, I mixed some white with the olive color used for the olives and then added more transparent. In fact, I used a lot of the transparent so that the pickles would be more realistic. After forming the pickle dough into a thin rope, I cut pieces about 1/4" long and then each piece into halves and each half again in half. Some of the pickle spears also resembled celery, so we now have celery on the platter.