miniatures
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Just a quick little December post…
We are in full Christmas mode at our house this time of year, so just a quick post to say THANK YOU to our customers for making our November/Black Friday sales so successful! We appreciate you! Our miniature books continue to be our most popular products, but don’t forget that we now have miniature art…
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Fixer Upper Dollhouse Part 5: Back Inside Luna’s House
Visit the other installments in this series here: part 1, part 2, part 3, and part 4. After making a lot of progress on the outside of Luna’s house, it was back to the inside. I stained preassembled stairs (link) with a medium oak to go with the traditional vibe of the house. I finished…
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Adventures in Sewing: Mini 60s Dress
A favorite aspect of miniatures for me is getting to explore different types of crafts. As I wrap up some final details on A’s house, I decided to make some clothes to hang in the open wardrobe in the primary bedroom. I do not have a lot of expertise as a sewist, but I always…
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Rehabbing a Fixer Upper Dollhouse, Part 4
Please see here for Part 1 of this series, here for Part 2, and here for Part 3. First, it was time to work on the exterior of the house again! I started by shingling the roof. I used fishscale shingles for a traditional vibe. My favorite adhesive for shingles is this one from Home…
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Making Your Own 3D Printed Tools and Organizers
Although we love using our BambuLabs P1S to print miniatures themselves, we also find it handy to create 3D printed tools and organizers for miniature making. Below is a list of some of our favorite free files. The 3D printing community is SO generous in sharing so many different types of files. Our favorite feature…
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Tools of the Trade: Glowforge Aura
Last Fall, we acquired this shiny new tool to expand the kind of intricate cutting and engraving we could do. Here it is — the glowforge Aura. If you have the crafting bug, chances are you have seen many of the amazing projects that makers are creating using in-home craft lasers. We were particularly drawn…
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New Products Launched!
We are so excited to have launched three new products in our etsy shop this weekend. The first has been our MOST-REQUESTED product: a bookcase filled with an ombre rainbow of 90+ individual books. You can check it out at our etsy shop here: link. The second we developed to solve a problem with the…
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Vacation Cross-stitching AKA Miniature Rugapalooza
My houses have been ignored, our shop was closed for most of July, but the rugs…the rugs are coming along. Cross-stitch is my favorite portable miniature activity these days, and I’ve made lots of progress because I can bring them anywhere. The below designs are all from LittleFishCreations’s shop on etsy (link). Monochromatic dollhouse rug…
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Custom Order: 1:6 Scale Wedding Guest Books
We had fun working in a different scale for a change on this custom order of 1:6 scale books. The customer will be using them for her wedding, with each guest able to write a small note inside the front or back cover. Now, back to the 1:12 scale where we belong!
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Cross-stitched Rug for Luna’s House
After six long weeks, I am excited to have finally finished the cross-stitching on the rug for Luna’s house. I knew it would take a while, but I was still surprised at the number of hours that went into this one. Very happy with how it turned out. This project came with me everywhere in…
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2024 Showcase of Miniatures — Good Sam Show
We had such a fun time visiting the 2024 Showcase of Miniatures in San Jose, CA (link) this weekend. If you can depend on anything, it’s that we will clear our your stock of Saint Bernard miniatures. Thanks Valerie @ Modern Miniature Magic! This incredible pizza was from MKminiature (link). It absolutely looks good enough…
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Adventures in Polymer Clay: Lattice Strawberry Pie
For my first foray into polymer clay, I made a strawberry pie, one of my favorite desserts. I had the most trouble with the lattice, but I am happy with how it turned out overall since it was my first clay project for A’s house. I made the silver pie tin on the 3D printer…
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Miniature Read of the Week: Wirecutter Miniature Review
As I have mentioned before, I love the NY Times’s Wirecutter product reviews (link) and always consult them when trying to decide which product to buy in any given category. (Especially tech!) This review popped up in my feed today and I loved it. I have tried to explain the joy of miniatures on this…
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Our Top Five Buys for September
Here are the five products that made our September such a success. Matte PLA Filament: the basic building block of prints on our new 3D printer (link). We have gone through 3 spools already building the new multiboard for tool storage in the workshop. All-in-one color printer: the Wirecutter recommendation (link) for printing shipping labels,…
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Rehabbing a Fixer Upper Dollhouse, Part 3
Please see here for Part 1 of this series and here for Part 2. After testing a few stains on the coffee stirrers, I went with pine (link) for the floors of Luna’s house. They now have a classic and traditional look. After letting the stain dry overnight, I finished with a coat of krylon…
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Giving Older Items New Life In Miniature Making
As a lifelong pack rat, it gives me great joy when something I haven’t used in ages comes in handy for our miniatures projects. Here are a few examples of the new life I have found for old purchases that were otherwise collecting dust. Food scale: When we started shipping on Etsy, we needed to…
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Twin Bed for Attic Kids’ Bedroom at A’s House
I finished up this cozy bed this weekend for the attic kids’ bedroom at A’s House. I cut the wood pieces on my Cricut Maker. The balloon legs for the bed are 3D printed. The sheets are a striped flannel that I picked up in person at Joann’s. The pink blanket is felt from the…
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Tools of the Trade: A Cricut Maker
A Cricut Maker is a wonderful addition to any craft room. I bought mine for $179 from the refurbished section of the Cricut website (link). I have used the Maker to cut 1/16″ basswood, veneer, paper, cardstock, mat board, 2 mm chip board, vinyl, fabric, and felt. By using different attachments, I can also draw,…
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Gift for a Librarian’s Promotion
A librarian reached out to our Etsy shop as she planned a celebration for the promotion of a colleague. She wanted 50 books that the staff could write a small note in to congratulate the colleague and wish them well in their new position. As lifelong bookworms, it was a delight for us to get…
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Our Shop’s New 3D Printer: The Bambu Lab P1S with AMS
Our first 3D printer was one I purchased for my kids a few years ago. It was a great, user-friendly introduction to the technique. But once we started co-opting it for miniature making, we were pretty limited in what we could accomplish. The build area was not quite big enough for a mini bathtub, and…
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“Why is dollhouse furniture so expensive?”
We like to feature money-saving tips for aspiring miniaturists, and we consider this to be a hobby where the costs of entry can be as low as you like. But on the flip side, we often hear this question: “why is dollhouse furniture so expensive?” Here’s our view: These are the main factors that I…
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