Amazing Miniatures Post I’ve been meaning post this for a few days now, but I keep getting side tracked. You know how it goes! This is a gift from Fran of FranMadeMinis, a friend I ‘met’ on Etsy. She’s actually a customer who convo’ed with me and was just so FUN to chat with that we ended up emailing at length on minis and...
Amazing Miniatures Post Yep, you know you’re a miniaturist when getting tools for mini making excites you. The most recent buy for me is a 6 inch digital caliper by Cen-Tech. I purchased it at Harbor Freight Tools near my home. I found this company when I was looking into purchasing a small table saw and was informed that ...
Amazing Miniatures Post Warning: this post is more so about photographing minis than minis itself! Also – if you don’t want to read the summary of photography lighting, go strait to my directions below on making a homemade light box. A big reason for my being such stickler for details with the minis I make and why I spend ...
Amazing Miniatures Post Back in January (or was it earlier?), the wonderful Shopping Sherpa and I had planned on doing a swap for the month of February. I suggested the theme of “red” in honor of Valentine’s day. Fast forward 5 months later, we have finally mailed our goodies, and mine had arrived! (Hopefully Anna-Maria ha...
Amazing Miniatures Post This is sort of a “making of” post on the process that went into creating the Cube Cubby. As simple the bookcase/storage unit seems, it took about a year to figure it out, only because I was testing a variety of methods to make them in the level of detail I wanted under a certain cost to make them. ...
A very realistic dollhouse miniature scale (1:12, one inch scale) bicycle by Maisto. It is also much more affordable than what you would get from a specialty shop. I know it’s been a LONG time since I last posted.. sorry! Between working the day job, freelancing, and working on a secret project, \wink\wink\ it didn’t leave me much time to blog, unfortunately. To get the ball rolling again, I just want to show off a recent purchase that I LOVE LOVE LOVE. Introd...
Amazing Miniatures Post I am really horrible at these things. I have photos ready and the entry half written, but it doesn’t get finished and posted until weeks later! \annoyed at self\ I really need to improve on this! Anyway… My first big thanks goes to Cindy a.k.a. Snowfern Clover the winner of the VIKA desk giveaway I ...
Amazing Miniatures Post I’ve been meaning to post this up two weeks ago, but got sidetracked with other projects and work. \ho hum\ Better late than never, I say! So if you didn’t already know, spring is a BIG DEAL in the miniatures community because a few of the large retailers and manufacturers run promotions and contest...
Amazing Miniatures Post Sorry for the lack of posts. It took longer than expected for the assembly, photography, and image editing for the first batch of furniture pieces I’ve been working on. Warning, lots of photos ahead! If you visit my Etsy shop often, you should recognize the Ikea inspired miniature Expedit 4×4 in bla...
Amazing Miniatures Post I was supposed to post this yesterday, but I got caught up with a bunch of work. Better late than never! So do you like the table above? Its called the XCurve dining table and its one of the furniture pieces I’ve been working on. I made a few of these prototypes and I wanted an excuse to give one aw...