Potions lab walls

 The walls of potions lab will be covered mostly with potion ingredients and the shelves. However I still enjoying glueing down the egg carton stones. But first I lined the walls with a couple layers of foam board. This gives me window sills.

The movie shows the lab in a circular room, and I tried to figure out a way to do this, but then I decided to just do it with rounded corners and hopefully it will look ok. I cut up a tube of acetate packaging that had the right curve and taped it to the corners. 

Knowing the stones won't glue too well onto the acetate, I just put a little masking tape on it.

Here's the fun of glueing the stones along the walls!

Wow, it looks good.

Here I am lining up bottles to see how many will fit and approximately how many I need.

When you watch the movies, there are golden arches over the windows, doors and ceiling of the potions lab. Here I attempt to paint this feature on a test piece.

Using the silhouette cameo and some removeable vinyl, a stencil is made.

There are many layers for this stencil, but it will work as long as I don't stretch it.

Trying different paints for the right effect.

Here I will paint gold to make a banner.

So excited to try this stencil!

Now to paint the details with black.

Well, with a little touchup, this will be perfect.

Laying the stencil down and painting a base coat of gold.

Laying down th second part of stencil and painting black

Touchups are needed.

Left side window.

Right side window.

Door arch.

Using scrabble tile holders as the bottom shelf. For a few years I have been buying up old scrabble games to use the tiles for crafting. It is nice to have a use for the wood holders. The end of the shelf will be covered with veneer so you won't even know it was once a scrabble tile holder.

Still trying to figure out how to make a curved shelf'.

The top of the shelf is a piece of wood with an overhang like a step.

Trying a cardstock template is my first step.

Will have to recut the template!

Sanding the end of the curved part of shelf so it will fit snugly.

Making the curved face to connect between the scrabble tile holders. I am using some iron on veneer from the hardware store.

I lay the veneer along the curved side of a glue bottle and glue the template to it. Then an elastic will hold it in place for a couple days. Hopefully it will take this curved shape.

Yes, it is staying curved!

Ah, it fits nicely.

The middle and top shelf templates worked well and I cut these curved shelves with balsa wood. In order to make it sturdy, the pieces of wood are cut on different grain directions and the two pieces are glued together.

Marking which side each shelf is on.

Here you should be able to see the different grain directions.

Usually I would use wood glue, but I felt that superglue will add more support and not warp the wood.

Glueing the shelf together and using a paint wash on the wood.

Potion ingredient bottles lined up nicely!

The finished shelves!

Starting to make the side shelves. Thankfully they have no curves to deal with.

Using a paint stick for the top of the shelf.

The paint stick is just the right width.

The upright sticks that were in my stash were just right in their dimensions.

Using some Jenka blocks to hold the shelves while they dry.

Looking pretty good.

Staining with watered down acrylic paint.

Using sticky max to keep the bottles from falling.

Finished!