*Timestamps and links* look inside the walnuts: 0:01 measure the gnomes and bear: 0:26 sizes of walnuts I'm using: 3:14 how to open a walnut w/o cracks: 3:40 mushroom beads 5:12 drilling holes and a closure: 5:52 fixing a break and fabric hinge: 7:08 attaching a metal hinge w/o screws: 8:44 line a walnut with fabric: 10:17 tiny mushroom house: 12:55 tiny gnomes: 15:50 tiny bear: 23:55 DIY walnut stand: 28:49 gluing in a hinge: 30:24 goodbye: 32:29 *walnut house* www.sharonojala.com/2013/10/walnut-dollhouse-finished.html *walnut house rugs* www.sharonojala.com/2013/10/micro-dollhouse-rug.html *Visit me:* Facebook facebook.com/wherethegnomeslive/ Instagram instagram.com/ojala_crafts/ Blog www.sharonojala.com/
hey, thanks for including the cracked shell bit..and how you fixed it. a lot of people cut the mistakes out and I wish they wouldnt . we learn from mistakes and I appreciate seeing them because these things happen when we are crafting. especially when we are doing really unique works (Like your stuff.)- so thank you
I poked around Le Internet, and found the walnuts you are using are called English walnuts, formerly Persian walnuts. They are grown for their nuts, so the tree matures slower. There is also a wild species called black walnuts, and white walnut, each on different sides of the States. They grow much more quickly and used for timber, rather than their nuts. They are supposed to have a bolder flavor than English walnuts but both are good to eat. Those giant walnut shells you found were probably just a particularly big harvest of nuts and they wound up being saved out of amusement. They look like English walnuts too. Walnut trees kill off ground vegetation, so they are bad for gardens. And black walnut shells used to be boiled in order to make ink! It's the exact ink the Declaration of Independence was written with! Walnuts are also the highest concentration of Omega 3s in nature. What a useful tree!
I had a couple of Christmas ornaments I bought in Mexico almost 50 years ago that were made of odds and ends, but mainly were nut shells. Someone had sawn 3/4 down the walnut shell on each side of the ridge going around the middle. They sawed the two pieces in half, and using wire, made hinges to reattach them to the shell. Now the walnut had 4 little doors. The inside of the shell was painted and using more little pieces of wire, string, construction paper, and a tiny bit of glitter the constructed a wedding scene in one nut and a bullfight in the other nut. A closure to keep the doors shut was made from a bit of cut out tin can and a wire loop. The outside was left natural. They made cute little Christmas ornaments.
These are precious! You're so beautifully talented. I'm so happy to now be part of the miniature community. Those of us in this amazing community just get it..those outside just don't. My fascination began way back as a young girl, about 6 or 7....I'm now 61 and I just love everything about this craft. Thank you again for sharing your ideas and creative spirit. I really appreciate it!=)
I have about 80 walnut shell sets all wrapped individually ready to make things like this. (Stored for about 2 years!) Thank you for getting my creative mind going again XX
Love, Love, Love this video! I discovered you channel in November and subscribed and watched all your videos. My Dining room now has a three foot cardboard box house (named 'The Mouse House' by my Daughter) Adding rooms and working on it is my Happy Place 😀 If you'd made walnuts earlier I'd have space in my Dining Room 🤣 Never stop making and never stop being you!
O M G !!!!!! Thank you for showing the water trick to open them! I have searched everywhere for weeks on how to get them to open perfectly - butter knife alone at top, nope not a perfect crack; exacto blade, nope takes forever and not a perfect crack; jewelers micro saw, nope takes forever and you actually make a false seam. I am cooking a bowl right now to try your trick...fingers crossed!
that is SO awesome!! Thank you for taking the time to comment. The other day I decided to boil some for a few hours and that was enough to open them, no additional soaking needed but you do need to keep an eye on the pot so it doesn't boil dry and run them under cold water while cracking open since the hot water does get inside and can burn your fingers.
So adorable! I love your videos of your cute and amazing creations. Always full of great tips too! I have tried cracking walnuts open for projects, and it has always been a gong show! Your tip on how to crack the walnut open, will be so helpful. Thank you.
Wow!!!😍 This is really incredible!!😍 So tiny yet so amazing!😍 I'm blown away! You can really make anything using your method!😍 It's such a game changer!! I don't use polymer clay because I don't have a separate oven to bake it in. You have opened up so many new possibilities! Thank you so very much!! 😍💕😮
ty for this. I make small diorama with jewelry boxes and I never would have thought to use simple things like foil tape etc and have it end up looking so cool.. thank you. I can now go off with all sorts of little creatures in my weird worlds .. ☆♡☆
I just came across your channel, how sweet these are..I absolutely love these . I ended up subscribing to your channel I was so impressed, this is so unique and different, a wonderful change to the channels I've been watching..just so darn sweet. Ty
I cannot describe just how much I love these! I have been hoarding walnut shells in my crafting stash for a while now waiting for the perfect project and you have really got the creative ideas flowing now! Thank you
Absolutely awesome once again. I cannot do such small gnomes, my fingers won't allow it. Lol. It is the first time I've seen something like this. Man I love it. 🥰🥰🥰🥰 Thank you.
Every video you make is pure magic, but I truly love this one! I looked online for walnuts and they were so expensive here in the US. I have found the easiest and cheapest way to get them is from my local grocery store. They are currently $1.99 per pound, so I chose the best ones and paid just pennies each! My shells are drying right now and I cannot wait to create with them! Thank you SO MUCH for showing us the different hinge methods. Such a great tutorial and video. I love how relaxing it is to watch! 💕💕💕
These are fantastic and give me many ideas. I like the use of leather hinges. I’ve saved a couple of purses and wallets over the years...perfect use. Thanks. 🥰
Such wonderful instructions. I love it all especially Walter and the glowing night scene. You are an incredible artist who makes me want to create. Thank you for sharing.
Love your little walnut-homed friends! I cracked open walnut shells to use as eyes in a monster for a diorama, and I broke a few shells trying to open them. I'll remember your tips for the next time :)
So lovely! I once saw a walnut shell in a jewellers window made with a silver clasp and lined with cloth...a little object of beauty! So sweet what you are making! Lovely
All I can say is you have the most creative mind. You must have some wonderful dreams to come up with what you create... Thank you for sharing with us all..
I absolutely love your walnut cases and your Gnomes, teddy bear and mushroom baby. How adorable! Thanks for sharing them all Sharon. Excellent works of art! ❤❤❤
These are really cute. I've always loved miniatures. As a suggestion, if you make a lot of these, buy a set of jewelry pliers. They are very affordable, maybe $10 for a whole set. They are much smaller and will make it much easier to get in small spaces. Also, when you're using polymer clay, the only time you need a foil base, is if you're baking a thick piece that's prone to cracking. These pieces are small, so foil isn't really necessary. So, if you're having problems with the clay over foil being too bulky, you can eliminate the foil and just make the figure from clay.
These are amazing and so cute! Wishing I had some walnuts right now, I'd be making some for sure .You are so creative, thank you for sharing your wonderful projects with us!
YES!!!!! So happy to see this tonight! I have missed you and you brought all the buddies!!!! This is so inspiring and joyful, thank you for sharing ❤. I love all the details and the instructions are brilliant! Thank you thank you thank you!
You did an amazing job on these. I so enjoy watching you work your magic. Your very talented. I love Walnuts but never knew what to make out of the shells; now I do! Tfs and God Bless 🥰
Oh Sharon, these are so adorable! I love tiny things like this. You are so talented and your creativity is such a delight in itself. Thank you for sharing your wonderful treasures with us.
These are great, I've been saving walnut shells for about a year, planning to do something like this but haven't got around to it, seeing your video has encouraged me to have a go. I wish I'd known about your soaking technique earlier!
I keep coming back to see how you do things with walnuts haha, I hope you create more, I would like to see how people add floors and furniture and bits
What a video,I thoroughly enjoyed that cos I've never seen anything like these before,they're adorable n amazing n I've fallen in luv with them ,they're so cute,thank u so much for showing this Ur amazing,thank u👍💖
if you google "vintage walnut doll" you'll see some walnut with dolls inside dated as far back as the 1800's. I want to replicate one of those tiny dolls one day! Thank you for the comment, I really appreciate it :)
Thanks for sharing! With E-6000, you can use a dab of hot glue to hold the bit in place while it cures. In the final bit shown, you might put the E-6000 on the screw holes as you did, then a dab of hot glue on the same plate between them and press it into the shell. The hot glue will harden quickly and hold it in place while the E-6000 cures.
Exercise your mind to be in this position, imagine yourself at the top with the desired knowledge, you will realize that this objective will become easier through tools. Knowledge is the path to freedom. Stop running away from the near future, 🙏🍒 visit and see!!!! 🍒🙏
Your video just came up in my feed 😊 already subscribed. Your work is beautiful and very inspiring, so calming to watch such creativity, you are truly talented. Can't wait to finish the days chores so I can binge watch your other videos 💖
You can open walnuts quickly & without breaking with a good ol butterknife! Just poke the knife into the bottom seam & work it around a bit (side to side) then gently twist & voila! It’ll pop right open!
This is a lovely unusual craft, I have seen them in shops, I will definitely have a go, as I do make pixie houses and castles out of clay but on a larger scale. X Thank you for your time x
if you google "vintage walnut doll" you'll see some that were crafted as far back as the 1800's. I want to replicate one of those tiny dolls one day! Thank you for the comment, I really appreciate it :)
I started with the walnuts and now I'm hooked. I just put up a video crafting with sea shells and used E6000 on those too. What a wonderful glue it is, the absolute best!
@@WhereTheGnomesLive It is. We had a Dodge Caravan years ago where the weather stripping became loose on one side. Used E600 glue, stripping still attached when we traded it in.😅🤣
Once again you have bowled me over with incredible work. I love anything tiny and I thought the gnomes were the best until I saw how you did that tiny bear. Thank you for another great video. (I looked for giant walnuts online and found some on Etsy from Europe that are kind of expensive.)
Your video came up on my home feed and I couldn't stop watching! I love what you made and the way you explained it in such a lovely calm voice 💕 I have an auditory processing disorder and normally struggle to listen to anyone with an accent that isn't from South or West England, but your voice is lovely so I've subscribed and look forward to watching more of your videos. Thank you for sharing your creations xxx
aww! My youngest son has auditory processing disorder too so your comment hits me right in the heart. Thank you for taking the time to comment and sharing that with me, I truly appreciate it.
I love these!! My granddaughters like to play with some little miniatures that I bought. It might be fun to make some of my own! Then, I could make THEM!! 😄
I always buy E6000 and super glue in packs of 3 or 4 small tubes instead of the larger tube. It probably works out to be a bit more expensive, but it eliminates the glue drying in the tube between uses. I've never found an effective way to keep those adhesives 'fresh'.
You never cease to amaze!!! I have a question about storing your miniatures as you work on them and if you make mini items that you really aren't going to use just right then, but later, how do you store them. Always a pleasure of encouragement and inspiration. In Joy
So much fun. Great way for opening the shells. Do you still eat the nuts after being boiled? I know people eat boiled peanuts, so I wasn't sure about walnuts.. heh I'll bet if you reduced that water down a bit, after you've finished, it would make a great stain or ink. Could use it to dye paper, or fabric, you want to distress a bit. Would love to know if you try it out. Thanks so much for sharing. I love these little guys!!
This was amazing! This is like 6!tutorials in one. Btw I work with polymer clay and if you’re parts stick together, if you can press a bit, you don’t need the glue. Especially since you’re not making something to wear so it won’t get messed with. Anyway you have a new subscriber and now I’m thinking how to make walnut lockets.
Your works remind me sooo much of my childhood hero Rien Poortvliet. He is a dutch artist who was famous for his fantastic artworks of gnomes, nature and animals. He made lots of books about the life of a gnome, how they live, eat, build and work etc. I don't know if they got one in English version. I looked it up and stumbled uppon a book called Gnomes. The illustrations are truly beautiful and remind me so much of your work!
Sharon has at least one of his books and has shown it on this channel. Her flip through of the book caused me to end up ordering one for myself. I particularly love his explanation of the female gnome anatomy and why some parts don't sag.
*Timestamps and links*
look inside the walnuts: 0:01
measure the gnomes and bear: 0:26
sizes of walnuts I'm using: 3:14
how to open a walnut w/o cracks: 3:40
mushroom beads 5:12
drilling holes and a closure: 5:52
fixing a break and fabric hinge: 7:08
attaching a metal hinge w/o screws: 8:44
line a walnut with fabric: 10:17
tiny mushroom house: 12:55
tiny gnomes: 15:50
tiny bear: 23:55
DIY walnut stand: 28:49
gluing in a hinge: 30:24
goodbye: 32:29
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hey, thanks for including the cracked shell bit..and how you fixed it. a lot of people cut the mistakes out and I wish they wouldnt . we learn from mistakes and I appreciate seeing them because these things happen when we are crafting. especially when we are doing really unique works (Like your stuff.)- so thank you
I poked around Le Internet, and found the walnuts you are using are called English walnuts, formerly Persian walnuts. They are grown for their nuts, so the tree matures slower. There is also a wild species called black walnuts, and white walnut, each on different sides of the States. They grow much more quickly and used for timber, rather than their nuts. They are supposed to have a bolder flavor than English walnuts but both are good to eat. Those giant walnut shells you found were probably just a particularly big harvest of nuts and they wound up being saved out of amusement. They look like English walnuts too. Walnut trees kill off ground vegetation, so they are bad for gardens. And black walnut shells used to be boiled in order to make ink! It's the exact ink the Declaration of Independence was written with! Walnuts are also the highest concentration of Omega 3s in nature. What a useful tree!
I used to make walnut shell 'rooms' with matchstick furniture and tiny people when l was a kid 50yrs ago. Your works of art are adorable! 😍
I would love to see them if you still have them 😊
Another wonderful whimsicle craft. Thank you Sharon for sharing your gifts of creativity with us.
I had a couple of Christmas ornaments I bought in Mexico almost 50 years ago that were made of odds and ends, but mainly were nut shells. Someone had sawn 3/4 down the walnut shell on each side of the ridge going around the middle. They sawed the two pieces in half, and using wire, made hinges to reattach them to the shell. Now the walnut had 4 little doors. The inside of the shell was painted and using more little pieces of wire, string, construction paper, and a tiny bit of glitter the constructed a wedding scene in one nut and a bullfight in the other nut. A closure to keep the doors shut was made from a bit of cut out tin can and a wire loop. The outside was left natural. They made cute little Christmas ornaments.
These are precious! You're so beautifully talented. I'm so happy to now be part of the miniature community. Those of us in this amazing community just get it..those outside just don't. My fascination began way back as a young girl, about 6 or 7....I'm now 61 and I just love everything about this craft. Thank you again for sharing your ideas and creative spirit. I really appreciate it!=)
I have about 80 walnut shell sets all wrapped individually ready to make things like this. (Stored for about 2 years!) Thank you for getting my creative mind going again XX
that's awesome, have fun!
Love, Love, Love this video! I discovered you channel in November and subscribed and watched all your videos. My Dining room now has a three foot cardboard box house (named 'The Mouse House' by my Daughter) Adding rooms and working on it is my Happy Place 😀 If you'd made walnuts earlier I'd have space in my Dining Room 🤣 Never stop making and never stop being you!
I love your work, and so resourceful! Gonna make some for all my Grandkids and Grand nieces and nephews!
Ohh! I need a whole world of these! How cute!
O M G !!!!!! Thank you for showing the water trick to open them! I have searched everywhere for weeks on how to get them to open perfectly - butter knife alone at top, nope not a perfect crack; exacto blade, nope takes forever and not a perfect crack; jewelers micro saw, nope takes forever and you actually make a false seam. I am cooking a bowl right now to try your trick...fingers crossed!
that is SO awesome!! Thank you for taking the time to comment. The other day I decided to boil some for a few hours and that was enough to open them, no additional soaking needed but you do need to keep an eye on the pot so it doesn't boil dry and run them under cold water while cracking open since the hot water does get inside and can burn your fingers.
So adorable! I love your videos of your cute and amazing creations. Always full of great tips too! I have tried cracking walnuts open for projects, and it has always been a gong show! Your tip on how to crack the walnut open, will be so helpful. Thank you.
Wow!!!😍 This is really incredible!!😍 So tiny yet so amazing!😍 I'm blown away! You can really make anything using your method!😍 It's such a game changer!! I don't use polymer clay because I don't have a separate oven to bake it in. You have opened up so many new possibilities! Thank you so very much!! 😍💕😮
Thank-you for sharing such a delightful craft! I love all your solutions for working in such a tiny scale with everyday items. Well done!
ty for this. I make small diorama with jewelry boxes and I never would have thought to use simple things like foil tape etc and have it end up looking so cool.. thank you. I can now go off with all sorts of little creatures in my weird worlds .. ☆♡☆
I just came across your channel, how sweet these are..I absolutely love these . I ended up subscribing to your channel I was so impressed, this is so unique and different, a wonderful change to the channels I've been watching..just so darn sweet. Ty
I cannot describe just how much I love these! I have been hoarding walnut shells in my crafting stash for a while now waiting for the perfect project and you have really got the creative ideas flowing now! Thank you
thank you and I'm so glad you'll get to use some of those in your stash. I was thrilled when I finally used mine, lol Have fun!
I always love seeing you create the most delightful things. ☺️ thank you.
Absolutely awesome once again. I cannot do such small gnomes, my fingers won't allow it. Lol. It is the first time I've seen something like this. Man I love it. 🥰🥰🥰🥰 Thank you.
Вы настоящая Фея! То что вы делаете - это волшебство.
Every video you make is pure magic, but I truly love this one! I looked online for walnuts and they were so expensive here in the US. I have found the easiest and cheapest way to get them is from my local grocery store. They are currently $1.99 per pound, so I chose the best ones and paid just pennies each! My shells are drying right now and I cannot wait to create with them! Thank you SO MUCH for showing us the different hinge methods. Such a great tutorial and video. I love how relaxing it is to watch! 💕💕💕
These are fantastic and give me many ideas. I like the use of leather hinges. I’ve saved a couple of purses and wallets over the years...perfect use. Thanks. 🥰
So cute I love walnut halves. I like cloth hinges too! I've never seen big walnuts like that before! 🙏love that tip ❤ boil the nuts!
Walter, the teeny gnomes and the mushroom baby are all so cute in their walnut homes! great video!
Cute idea! Walter is adorable. All of them are adorable but Walter is my favorite.
Such wonderful instructions. I love it all especially Walter and the glowing night scene. You are an incredible artist who makes me want to create. Thank you for sharing.
Love your little walnut-homed friends! I cracked open walnut shells to use as eyes in a monster for a diorama, and I broke a few shells trying to open them. I'll remember your tips for the next time :)
So lovely! I once saw a walnut shell in a jewellers window made with a silver clasp and lined with cloth...a little object of beauty! So sweet what you are making! Lovely
All I can say is you have the most creative mind. You must have some wonderful dreams to come up with what you create... Thank you for sharing with us all..
I absolutely love your walnut cases and your Gnomes, teddy bear and mushroom baby. How adorable! Thanks for sharing them all Sharon. Excellent works of art!
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thanks!!
Reminds me of polly pocket...super cute thank you for this.
These are really cute. I've always loved miniatures. As a suggestion, if you make a lot of these, buy a set of jewelry pliers. They are very affordable, maybe $10 for a whole set. They are much smaller and will make it much easier to get in small spaces. Also, when you're using polymer clay, the only time you need a foil base, is if you're baking a thick piece that's prone to cracking. These pieces are small, so foil isn't really necessary. So, if you're having problems with the clay over foil being too bulky, you can eliminate the foil and just make the figure from clay.
That is do neat. I use to glue the walnuts back together and put glitter on them to make Christmas ornaments and thought that was clever 😄
there's so many different ways to craft with walnuts, I think Christmas ornaments are brilliant!
These are amazing and so cute! Wishing I had some walnuts right now, I'd be making some for sure .You are so creative, thank you for sharing your wonderful projects with us!
YES!!!!! So happy to see this tonight! I have missed you and you brought all the buddies!!!! This is so inspiring and joyful, thank you for sharing ❤. I love all the details and the instructions are brilliant! Thank you thank you thank you!
You did an amazing job on these. I so enjoy watching you work your magic. Your very talented. I love Walnuts but never knew what to make out of the shells; now I do! Tfs and God Bless 🥰
These are so sweet. I enjoyed sensing your joy in these creations. Thank you!
More goodies for mom to watch and be amazed and jealous of.... 😄
This is just the cutest ever! I love Walter!
Oh Sharon, these are so adorable! I love tiny things like this. You are so talented and your creativity is such a delight in itself. Thank you for sharing your wonderful treasures with us.
Those are so adorable! I’m working on my first walnut locket with micro crochet teddy bear. ❤ thanks for sharing this! Gave me so many ideas. 💡 ❤
You are so welcome!
This is so awesome! Love it. Thanks for sharing your talents and your art!
Absolutely wonderful! Great tips!!
These are fantastic! You are so creative
These are great, I've been saving walnut shells for about a year, planning to do something like this but haven't got around to it, seeing your video has encouraged me to have a go. I wish I'd known about your soaking technique earlier!
🎉I love your work! I've made a few walnut houses and love ❤️ yours! Thanks for sharing!😊
I keep coming back to see how you do things with walnuts haha, I hope you create more, I would like to see how people add floors and furniture and bits
What a video,I thoroughly enjoyed that cos I've never seen anything like these before,they're adorable n amazing n I've fallen in luv with them ,they're so cute,thank u so much for showing this Ur amazing,thank u👍💖
if you google "vintage walnut doll" you'll see some walnut with dolls inside dated as far back as the 1800's. I want to replicate one of those tiny dolls one day! Thank you for the comment, I really appreciate it :)
Thanks for sharing!
With E-6000, you can use a dab of hot glue to hold the bit in place while it cures.
In the final bit shown, you might put the E-6000 on the screw holes as you did, then a dab of hot glue on the same plate between them and press it into the shell. The hot glue will harden quickly and hold it in place while the E-6000 cures.
Fabulous and Creative Ideas! Thank you for sharing!
Sooooo cute and lovely … great to hang on Xmas tree or really exciting advent calendar
Wow, there’s no end to your imagination and you do great work
So darn cute....beautifully done.
What an unexpected treat and how stinking cute are those gnomes
This is such a great video! So much fun! Can't wait to play! Thanks for sharing 👍!🐱
Thank you for making this video. You little world is so extraordinary !! I always wanted to make something out of those walnuts. Thank you.
Oh my goodness, these are awesome!!
You do magic with paper towels and foil
We love the Gnomius's!! Or gnomes as you call em we have some running around here causing all kinds of havoc!
Hello friend!!! This is just so cute! Your so creative ❤️ Sending love from the hills of southeast Kentucky
Exercise your mind to be in this position, imagine yourself at the top with the desired knowledge, you will realize that this objective will become easier through tools.
Knowledge is the path to freedom. Stop running away from the near future, 🙏🍒 visit and see!!!! 🍒🙏
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Really sweet! I'm so excited to try some of these techniques!
Your video just came up in my feed 😊 already subscribed. Your work is beautiful and very inspiring, so calming to watch such creativity, you are truly talented. Can't wait to finish the days chores so I can binge watch your other videos 💖
You always makes the most wonderful things! I absolutely love them
You can open walnuts quickly & without breaking with a good ol butterknife! Just poke the knife into the bottom seam & work it around a bit (side to side) then gently twist & voila! It’ll pop right open!
O.M. GOODNESS!!!!! EVERYTHING YOU CREATE IS FREAKING ADORABLE!!!! I LOVE IT SOOOO MUCH❤❤❤❤
This is a lovely unusual craft, I have seen them in shops, I will definitely have a go, as I do make pixie houses and castles out of clay but on a larger scale. X Thank you for your time x
if you google "vintage walnut doll" you'll see some that were crafted as far back as the 1800's. I want to replicate one of those tiny dolls one day! Thank you for the comment, I really appreciate it :)
I love your work, I really love the bear I am going to try to make him , thank you for sharing
That’s adorable Sharon. I love it so much. Shame our walnuts are much smaller here. Never seen such big ones.
I've been using E6000 in my jewelry making since the 1980's, it's a miracle glue. The walnuts and their inhabitants are adorable.❤
I started with the walnuts and now I'm hooked. I just put up a video crafting with sea shells and used E6000 on those too. What a wonderful glue it is, the absolute best!
@@WhereTheGnomesLive It is. We had a Dodge Caravan years ago where the weather stripping became loose on one side. Used E600 glue, stripping still attached when we traded it in.😅🤣
@@vickinoeske1154 wow!!!! 😂 I’ll remember this if I need it one day in the car too lol that’s awesome
@@WhereTheGnomesLive 😁😅
Thnx for sharing
Great tutorial❤️💐
Wow! Thats such an adorable use for walnuts. Great job!
You are such an inspiration!!! Thanks for sharing!
This is all soooo cool!! I just love Walter!!! 💚
I do love the things you make! My favourites are the two tiny gnomes, and their mushroom house! You're so talented, and imaginative. ~Janet in Canada
Very cute!! I don't think I'd ever do that though. I do to many crafts already!!!! 😆 🤣 😂
Once again you have bowled me over with incredible work. I love anything tiny and I thought the gnomes were the best until I saw how you did that tiny bear. Thank you for another great video. (I looked for giant walnuts online and found some on Etsy from Europe that are kind of expensive.)
So fun! Thanks for sharing you little gnomes with us!
Your video came up on my home feed and I couldn't stop watching! I love what you made and the way you explained it in such a lovely calm voice 💕 I have an auditory processing disorder and normally struggle to listen to anyone with an accent that isn't from South or West England, but your voice is lovely so I've subscribed and look forward to watching more of your videos. Thank you for sharing your creations xxx
aww! My youngest son has auditory processing disorder too so your comment hits me right in the heart. Thank you for taking the time to comment and sharing that with me, I truly appreciate it.
These are awesome walnuts👍😍
I love these!! My granddaughters like to play with some little miniatures that I bought. It might be fun to make some of my own! Then, I could make THEM!! 😄
I always buy E6000 and super glue in packs of 3 or 4 small tubes instead of the larger tube. It probably works out to be a bit more expensive, but it eliminates the glue drying in the tube between uses. I've never found an effective way to keep those adhesives 'fresh'.
So lovely! You make the cutest things!🍄🐻🧙♂️
You never cease to amaze!!! I have a question about storing your miniatures as you work on them and if you make mini items that you really aren't going to use just right then, but later, how do you store them. Always a pleasure of encouragement and inspiration. In Joy
Absolutely adorable. Thank you so much for sharing. You’re very talented 👍✌️🙏❤️
Oh wow cool way to open walnuts
Wonderful fun!!❣️. Thank you!!
So beautiful, you are truly talented..well done xxx🙋🏻❤️🌻
Thanks for this one, I’m excited to try it! Love your videos! Thanks for making them.
Amazing... So cute
Thank you for sharing
Enjoy your tutorials
So much fun. Great way for opening the shells. Do you still eat the nuts after being boiled? I know people eat boiled peanuts, so I wasn't sure about walnuts.. heh I'll bet if you reduced that water down a bit, after you've finished, it would make a great stain or ink. Could use it to dye paper, or fabric, you want to distress a bit. Would love to know if you try it out. Thanks so much for sharing. I love these little guys!!
This was amazing! This is like 6!tutorials in one. Btw I work with polymer clay and if you’re parts stick together, if you can press a bit, you don’t need the glue. Especially since you’re not making something to wear so it won’t get messed with.
Anyway you have a new subscriber and now I’m thinking how to make walnut lockets.
what brilliant fun.!
Your work is beautiful!! Love all the miniature things 🥰
I just love this don't know how you are able to make such tiny gnomes
The huge walnut is a coming from the juglans regia in a variety called Lange van Lot.. it is a dutch variety from a town called venlo!
Do you know where the Lange van lot walnut could be ordered?
Omg your so clever, thanku for sharing x
Thank you so much and you’re very welcome 😊
Hermoso.
Feliz 2022, un abrazo desde Chile.
Your works remind me sooo much of my childhood hero Rien Poortvliet. He is a dutch artist who was famous for his fantastic artworks of gnomes, nature and animals. He made lots of books about the life of a gnome, how they live, eat, build and work etc. I don't know if they got one in English version. I looked it up and stumbled uppon a book called Gnomes. The illustrations are truly beautiful and remind me so much of your work!
Sharon has at least one of his books and has shown it on this channel. Her flip through of the book caused me to end up ordering one for myself. I particularly love his explanation of the female gnome anatomy and why some parts don't sag.
@@rainsongt189 wich video? I haven't seen that one yet. That's so cool! I mys 3wlf have almost all his books
Another amazing video!!!! I love Walter!!!!
Lovely to hear from you. So excited to try it!