Christmas Miniatures

Even though it is now the day after Christmas I thought I would share some of my doll house miniatures with Christmas Scenes.

The first two pictures show my doll house living room.  Not too heavily decorated but none the less READY for Christmas.........

 The mirror over the mantle was made by my dear friend Sally Watson.  We share a love of all things mini!  And she does beautiful work!

The next few pictures are of a room box I made a number of years ago....  It is filled with items I received in a 24 days of Christmas swap with a group of ladies in a NY state Miniature group I belonged to.

                    The top and sides of the box come off to fully reveal what is inside.

As I look at this more closely I realize I should add some sort of decor to the top of the walls as they look rather bare.  Though I don't usually have it all the way open.

And finally here are a few more Christmas minis.  I made the tree at my local doll house club a few years ago.  I can't remember the source of the other items.  Perhaps a swap?

I hope you have enjoyed looking at these.  Miniatures are VERY addicting.  Even though I haven't done any in awhile due to other interests crowding in I am always thinking about what I should do next.

Be sure to come back next Tuesday for Teacup Tuesday!     

Mini Monday

So finally a Monday with actual miniature stuff.

I was able to work a bit yesterday, between customers in my real life antique shop. I added trim to the top of shop walls.

I have finally decided it will NOT be a dress shop BUT instead just hats and lingerie. I have lots of hats and plan to make some lingerie from patterns I have found.

Since I had planned to make it a dress shop I was going to need a dressing room and had temporarily borrowed a screen from my doll house to serve that function. But I don't think I will

need one now. So that can go back to the doll house. I had already taken these pictures so it is included

I found some appropriate pictures for the walls. I have put up three, the others will have to wait until I find some shelving I like, to hold all the hat boxes. Then if I still need something on the wall they can go up.

For some reason these pictures are all washed out looking and I didn't even use a flash. I will try again tomorrow to get better color. My camera has been acting up a bit. I hope it is not dying.

I have to admit I am not thrilled with the look of it yet. I think that piece of furniture that is presently holding fabric may go..(it is too clunky looking).... And I need to do something with the floor. And I have to find the table and chairs to use, they are somewhere up in my studio I know.

So right now it is just a box holding the stuff I have made and collected up.

I don't think I will get much done on the shop today because I have a lot of other stuff to do. But check back. You never know.

A change of pace for January

I have been busy with so many things that my blog has definitely taken a back seat.

The cats have been posing too..... or "caught in the act" anyway.

Spooky loves enclosed places. No wonder our clothes are covered with cat hair....

Spooky likes to lord it over Bentley as well.



The sisters (Spooky (L) and Tuffy (R) really do like each other and can ofter be seen side by side.

Normally by this time of the month of January I am well into a project. Lately it has been miniatures and this year was supposed to be no exception.

Well I will just have to be a little late at it.

I recently bought two room box kits to use for a couple of projects I have worked on but never liked what I had done with them. so....................... I got these two room box kits and will work on them one at a time to finish off these projects.

Not much to show you yet...... but here is a picture of the boxes. Then I will show as I go along.
Later today I will put the first box together and figure out what I have to do to make it like I want it.
The first project is called "Milady's Dress Shoppe" I had made up a shop in a very small room box and it was so crowded and I kept finding things to add to it..... SO..... I hope this will allow me to put everything together.

Tune in Tomorrow.... Saturday, to see how I have progressed, or if I have. I have time to work today as my shop will not be open due to all the snow.

MINI MONDAY

As I promised two Monday's ago, here are pictures of my MAKE for GSOLFOT. I made this for Gail who I know is a VERY busy lady. You are now going to meet Mr. Moore Thyme. He will be there to help her out when she needs more time. At least that is the plan.

And here he is.

In case you are wondering, his face is an old watch face. The basket is filled with more watch faces. His arms and legs are watchbands. Oh, and his tie is made from an earring... no kidding. I had so much fun creating him. I do a lot of altered art so have a good supply of embellishments in my studio. It made this so much easier.

Last week I showed pictures of rooms I need to work on, in my 1/12 scale doll house. I did get a bit done this week though still a lot more to go. I bought rugs, a cabinet, painted the walls and added a wall paper border. My wonderful friend Sally is making a mirror for the room. I still need to finish trim on the door, make curtains, and find a few more things for the walls. But it is getting there.

And it is easier than doing a real room.

BEFORE..........

NEXT.........

Tune in to Mini Monday next week for more updates.

And be sure to check in on Artful Thursday this week to see what I am doing in my artist classes.

Gerome comes for a visit

I belong to GSOLFOT......... We are an international group of miniature makers, collectors and enthusiasts with a bit of insanity thrown in. If you click on the link you can learn about us, even more perhaps than you wish.... We have daily chats and I am often sitting here chatting with folks from UK, Netherlands, Germany, Australia and all over the US including Hawaii.

One of the special "members" of our group is Gerome, a gnome, who travels round the world visiting the members and joining in their lives for a week. Instead of using the TARDIS like they did in Doctor Who, the British TV show, Gerome comes from our printer................ and proceeds to change our lives.

Over the next week I will share with you his adventures

Gerome arrived at my house yesterday. He got here just in time for dinner naturally. Here he is checking out the menu. .

We had oven roasted chicken, homemade potato salad and a veggie melange of zucchini, mushrooms and red peppers, sauteed greek dressing.

After dinner Gerome claimed he needed to chat with the other gnomes that live here so a meeting was held.

And next he visited my very messy GSOLFOT office. I think he wanted to know why I didn't straighten it up before his arrival. Well, I imagine I had better do that pretty soon. A number of the items in the office were made by other members of GSOLFOT in our occasional "makes. " A Makes is a project that we sign up to complete without knowing what we will be making nor to whom it will go..... Our illustrious leader, Noni the Oz, makes up the rules and we must follow. Usually it is quite a challenge. But oh so worth it.

My "GSOLFOT" Official Title is called the Keeper Of Antiquities and Other Old Junque. This came about because I run an antique shop in real life. So a lot of the items in the "office" represent my title.

WE are in the midst of a "MAKE" period so I can't talk about what I am doing but will document it and show all once it is allowed.