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I'm busy planning this site and hope that you'll come back soon!
(Click on pictures to enlarge.)
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Please have a look at some of the minis I've
made. More to come very soon!
The kitchen shelf was made with craft sticks (like popsicle sticks) and filled with pantry items.
The dressing table was made from a small box covered with thin batting and then dressed with gathered
skirt, linen top, and lace trim. The Victorian style hat doesn't have a stand yet!
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Furnishing a dollhouse has challenged me to learn about scale, tools, materials, and more. The miniatures
on this page are my first efforts at creating miniatures in 1 inch scale (1 inch = 1 foot real size).
Currently "in production" and not yet photographed is a stone walkway, brick steps for the front porch, gingerbread trim
for the front of house, and kitchen and parlor furniture.
I'm keeping a file of "future plans" with notes on the ideas and sketches to remind me later what I had in mind!
Come back soon and check my progress!
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The butcher block is a purchased item. The chicken in the pan is made from polymer clay
(the pan is the lid from a gum tin), and clay apples and cake slice sit on plates also made from polymer clay. The washtub
and scrub board are filled with resin "water" and soap bubbles are made from crumbled styrofoam.
I love making mini food and kitchen things! The two pies are made from polymer clay and
are in pie tins made from bottle caps.
The little red wagon is a purchased item. The flower pots are made from polymer clay and
filled with purchased blossoms.
The topiary trees were made from tiny branches from a tree in my yard, and reindeer moss for greenery.
The little kindling box was constructed from scraps of balsa wood, stained and filled with "logs" cut from stems from a shrub,
also in my yard!
The joy and feeling of accomplishment
when a project is completed is the best medicine for many "ailments"!
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Tiny shirts for tiny people! Such fun! I used
a tutorial to get started, and then I turned out all of these one evening while watching TV. The link to that tutorial
is at the bottom of this page.
The china shelf was made from scraps of balsa wood. The shelves were edged with tiny lace
and china pieces glued in place.
The kitchen work table is filled with baking items made from polymer clay. The sugar and
flour sacks are filled with dryer lint! A box of polymer potatoes completes the "under the table" arrangement.
The rocking chair was a purchased item. The table was made from a baby food jar, and the
foot stool was fashioned from the cap of a 2 liter soda bottle. The rug and foot stool covering are from a woven
placement from my linen cabinet!
Poor photo quality here...but will be replaced soon. The stove is a very inexpensive
purchased item that has had the shiney plastic finish dulled with gray acrylic paint. The pots are filled with
polymer vegetables. Polymer cornbread in a polymer skillet, and polymer bread in a bread pan made of chewing gum wrappers!
The "fire box" on which the stove sits is an article that would help prevent fires in turn-of-the-century kitchens.
I made the bricks for the box out of potters clay, baked in my oven, then painted. A frame of popsicle sticks holds
the brick structure on its cardboard base.
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