miniatures
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Tips for Miniaturing on a Budget
If your miniatures hobby is like ours, it can eat up a lot of your full-size dollars. Here are our top suggestions for saving money in your miniature adventures. Recycle and repurpose found objects Shop at discount stores Buy refurbished Thrift a dollhouse Visit your local hardware store Check books out at your local library…
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Dressing the Midcentury Modern Dollhouse Bed in 1:12 scale
For the tutorial to make the bed, visit this link. For the mattress, I cut a rectangle out of padding from cold food shipments. Quilt batting (link) or foam works well too. I cut two rectangles of white poplin to be the top and bottom sheets. The bottom sheet I folded and tacked with embroidery…
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Quick & Cheap DIY Dollhouse Lighting
I haven’t wired A’s house so I looked around for some inexpensive DIY battery LED lighting options. These little lights on Amazon (link) were too cute (and cheap –60 bulbs for $10) to pass up, but they do not switch on and off. Instead, you break the ‘circuit’ by pulling out a small strip of…
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Tips and Tricks for Using Your Cricut Maker to Cut Basswood for DIY Miniatures Projects
The Cricut Maker (or Maker 3) can cut 1/16 inch thick basswood sheets with the knife blade. But getting it to come out right can be a battle! Here are our tips and tricks for getting good cuts most of the time. (Some of the links below are affiliate links, which means we will earn…
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