Check out Linda Auker's work on her dollhouses and miniatures Today’s showcase is not on someone who has decades of experience. In fact, it’s someone who is like myself, who is relatively new to the world of miniatures, but unlike myself, she actually has some wonderful miniature work to show for it! Visit Linda Auker’s blog for more pictures. She also has a w...
Maria Armanda is a miniaturist from Portugal with 30 years of experience under her belt. Today’s post is all about Portuguese Miniaturist, Maria Armanda. Her blog is in both Portuguese and English, but from what I can gather, she has been working on miniatures for 30 years now! And from the images of her work below, you can definitely tell. Check out her blog for more pictures!
Showcasing hand crafted miniature dolls for your dollhouse by artists Marsha Mees and Mike Barbour. I want to share with you two great doll makers I found as I was searching for little people to live in my dollhouse. The first is Mike Barbour who is a member of the International Guild of Miniature Artisans or IGMA (no surprise there!) who specializes in unique, hand-crafted, one-of-a-kind dolls, a...
Showcasing Stephanie Kilgast's realistic miniature pastries and foods. Stephanie Kilgast from France makes amazing miniature foods. I found her while shopping through Esty for some miniature accessories. I just had to showcase her work. It’s making me hungry! Honestly, I had no idea there were so many miniature food artists. I really makes me want to learn how to creat...
Check out Marianne Stengel's 16 room dollhouse! This monster of a dollhouse was built by Marianne Stengel and furnished in the style of the Chippendale-Biedermeier era. It has 16 room, 15 doors, 17 windows, 3 fireplaces, 88 lamps, and approximatedly 175 pieces of furniture. There are even 38 miniature people with 3 dogs, 4 cats, and a mouse livin...
Showcasing exquisite silver miniatures by Pete Acquisto. Zomg, the details! I’m not entirely sure how I stumbled on Peter Acquisto’s site, but I was mesmerized by his exquisite silver miniatures. From reading his artist bio and looking at the images, you can see that he is indeed very talented. His work can be seen in museums! The only problem I see is th...
After a brief hiatus, I will be posting more often to AmazingMiniatures.com. I just want to apologize to anyone who was reading my blog for the lack of updates. Family obligations (nothing bad) just happened to get in the way of updating this blog as well as working on my dollhouse. I also know (and some of my readers know) that I have a habit of starting projects and never ...
Darice Timeless Miniatures accessories arrives in the mailbox today! Hooray! Some of my dollhouse accessories arrived in the mail today. Much like the unfinished furniture, these accessories used to be abundant back in the day, but now, unless you have a hobby store dedicated to miniatures, you will be hard pressed to find these anywhere locally.
Part 4 of the progress report on my Coventry Cottage dollhouse project. While its not 100% dry, the glue is doing a pretty good job of holding up the Coventry Cottage frame. A close up image above. I also pieced together the front porch just to get ready. I plan on painting the house first before actually installing the frame. That way, there won’t be too much touch up ...
Part 3 of my Coventry Cottage project update. The frame the dollhouse is finally going up and getting glued together. As the title of this post suggests, the framework for my Coventry Cottage is finally placed together and glued! Of course, there is liberal use of duct tape to make sure the pieces stick together while the glue dries. The image above has a nice view of the interior. And of course, I have to show off...