{"id":12714,"date":"2018-03-14T15:58:38","date_gmt":"2018-03-14T22:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/?p=12714"},"modified":"2018-03-14T16:03:24","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T23:03:24","slug":"stocking-the-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/?p=12714","title":{"rendered":"Stocking the bar"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the bottles finished<\/a>, it’s time to breathe some life into this bar! (And by “life” I mean “alcohol,” obviously.) I hate the permanence of gluing down accessories, but with this many small pieces it’s a necessity. I started by arranging a shelf’s length of bottles to get them in an order I wanted, and then glued them one by one to the shelf.<\/p>\n

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Next I did the glasses. All of these glasses are plastic — not as realistic looking as glass, but a lot less expensive and less fragile. The espresso maker is from Elf Miniatures<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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Time to glue in the beer taps. These came from Dollshouse Emporium<\/a>. They’re resin with no moving parts. The gap underneath the handles bugged me… how would these actually work to pour beer?<\/p>\n

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I made a piece to cover up the gap under the handles, and added half scale faucets as taps.<\/p>\n

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Better! But the drain area is too small.<\/p>\n

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I made a new drain by gluing window screen mesh onto a piece of scrapbook paper. <\/p>\n

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I painted it black and glued it down to the bar.<\/p>\n

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I added medallions to the fronts of the handles, made from pictures I found online. <\/p>\n

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Another mesh draining mat is under the optics.<\/p>\n

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The cash register is made from a simple kit that I got cheap at a flea market. I don’t like the fakeness of the buttons, but couldn’t find a better alternative. (Admittedly, I didn’t look very hard.) I haven’t glued the cash register down, so if the keypad continues to bug me I can change it.<\/p>\n

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Next to the cash register is a stack of receipts on a “spike” made from an earring post. It’s the same receipt over and over, but you can’t tell. I found one on Google Images and resized it to 3mm wide.<\/p>\n

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I still have a bunch of drinks and other accessories to spread around on the bar and on the shelves underneath, but here’s how the stocked bar looks for now.<\/p>\n

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I love this spilled beer! I got it from Tumdee Dolls House Miniatures<\/a> at the same time I bought the optics. They have a no frills website but a lot of neat things if you dig through it.<\/p>\n

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