New name and adress!

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I have transferred the old posts there.

I´m back!

Hello! I'm back!
I have not blogged for a while now because I've been busy throughout december.
Me and my friend were on holiday in gran canaria and enjoyed the sun and the sea.
It was really wonderful to get a break and get away from the snow, to the warm weather.
Then it's been Christmas and New Year's Eve.
Now I can finally relax and start crafting again.
Hope you had a good time during the holidays. Have a great 2013!

Etsy shops

 
ReneeBowen
 
Thierry1888
 
LugartPetit
 
Otterine
 
BakinginMiniature
 
Minisx2
 
MiniModels
Tiny Modern
DragonDee 
AmazingMiniatures
MitchyMooMiniatures
Miniaturesbyannina
ModPodMiniatures
 
MiniatureSweet
dpaone

Blogs

A lot of miniature blogs =)

 
1
1 inch minis

A
A fairytale come true
Anetteriinas små ting och tankar 
Artisansinminiature

B
Blogghuset
Brinja Kobenhavn

C
Call of the Small
Creating Dollhouse Miniatures
Cynthia´s Cottage Design

D
DIY Dollhouse miniatures
Dukkehussiden

F
Flor and FF

H
Hannahs miniatyrer

I
In the court of gypsies
Its a mini life
 
J
Jicolin
J Day Minis Blog

L
Lenas Dockhus
Lilla hjärtat, Tittskåp och Miniatyrer
Lottasatomaa

M
Malu´s Minis
Mike´s Miniatures
Miniarcs *
Miniatures by Annina *
Miniatyrmama
Mini daydreams ^
Minifanaticus
Minifriseursalon
Minimodern*
Mini modern mind *
Mini Mod Pod
Minimis
Modern Mini Houses
Mrs Who´s Crafts
m´s minis and more
MundoMini
Myfroggystuff
 
N
Neo-mini *
 
O
Otterine
 
P
Paris Miniatures
Petit plat
Plushpussycat
 
R
Raum fuer raum
 *
Ritas miniatyrhus
 
S
Saarannukkekoti
Something Tiny©

T
true2scale

Candle tutorial

In the miniature group on Facebook that I'm in, it was a woman who said that you could make candles in cut straws. I decided to try to make them. I hope you understand my description. It's not that complicated, but it can get pretty messy ...

1 Light some real candles. I had three of them but if you want to do a lot of minicandles at the same time it's good to have more. Use a sheet of paper or anything else you can throw away later (It gets very messy) Cut the straws in different lengths depending on how long candles you want to make.

2 Pour some stearic on the paper and hurry to set up the straws before it solidifies.

3 Cut thread that will be the wick.

4 Pour the stearic into the straws. Fill up all and wait a little while before putting in the thread.

5 Add the thread. I found that if you lay the end of the thread in stearic and pinching the ends so the end gets hard, it will be easier to put it down the straw, but you can test what works best for yourself. Move the thread to the center the more the stearic hardens, and you get them well positioned.

6 When the stearic has hardened, take  them away of the paper. Push out the candles from the straws. I used a tool with a small ball at the tip. Then it would be easy to push out the lights of straws.


Hope you found this helpful! 


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Tutorials

http://www.julieoldcrow.com/tutorials/printiebooks/printiebooks.htm - How to make printie books
 
http://riikamaria.tripod.com/sormus/sormus.html - Miniature ring in a case
 
http://thenewnew.blogspot.se/2011/06/homemade-polymer-clay.html - Homemade Polymer Clay
 
http://annejsminiatyrer.blogspot.se/2012/10/har-ar-en-beskrivning-pa-julstjarnan.html - Christmas star
 
http://www.letsbuildadollhouse.com/lbdhbuild%20a%20sofa.htm - Sofa
 
http://www.minimotion.com/HOWTO/Stairs/stairway%20howto.html - Stairway for any scale
 
http://www.cdhm.org/tutorials/miniatures.html
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8X2zOmuwW-k - Binder clip purse tutorial
 
http://boredandcrafty.com/?p=4110#more-4110 - How to make a miniature bag
 
http://jmurphybears.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/POMPOM_pattern_pdf.pdf - Pom Pom Bunny
 
http://bacontimewiththehungryhypo.blogspot.se/2012/03/miniature-whisk-earring-tutorial-and.html Mini Whisk
 
http://mishellyszoo.homestead.com/DIYprojects.html - 25 DIY projects
 
http://mini.brayforum.com/?p=9 - Office Chair
 
http://user.talstar.com/madison/onthescene/projects.html - A lot of projects
 
http://kuoi.com/~nyssa/furniture/mission.html - Bedroome furniture
 
 

Pinterest

DIY miniatures
Dollhouse
Dollhouse Related
 
Miniature Printies
Miniatures
Miniature Tutorials
Mini treasures
Mini treasures diy
Mini Tutorials
 
Putz House
 
 

Christmas gifts

 I always have to get an outlet for my creativity and I LOVE Christmas when you are able to do lots of lovely and special gift wrapping solutions. One year I had wrapped a package to my little brother and put on a light trail run by battery. So when I would put it under the tree so I lit the same time and it was a nice decoration. But it's a bit sad that when you spent so much time on the packaging itself as you open the package after all then, and then you have to throw away all the decorations.

Today I´ve printed a lot of miniature Christmas paper, labels, Christmas cards, boxes, etc. 
So it'll be fun with my first Christmas in the miniature world. Then I can make Christmas gifts thats not meant to be opened, and does not take lot of space. =)

 


Classic childhood toys

 
 
I just had to show you these keychains! 
Im sure they work perfectly in our small houses! 
These are classic childhood toys that are fully functional too! I love the phone!
That one is sold out right now, but maybe I will buy one later =) 
You can buy them online at http://www.vat19.com/dvds/fisher-price-classic-toy-keychains.cfm
 
 

My projects right now

I have made a table and a mirror that I put up in the hall.
I'll make candlesticks and some accessories that should be on the table also.

Another project I'm doing right now is Christmas decorations.
I´m printing christmas wrapping paper, labels, boxes, and other things that have to do with Christmas.

We also have a Christmas Swap on our Facebook group right now. It went really well with the first swap I organized, so now we have our second.

I have decided that I will have giveaways here on the blog for my new readers.
It's really nice that so many people follow me and my miniatures.

Please comment my posts more so I may know who you are =)

 

Various links

http://scrapcoloring.fr/texts/creation-et-impression-de-motifs - Here you can create patterns for wallpaper, etc.

Two sofas

Now I continue to decorate Lundby house =)
It's so fun!
Today I have built two sofas.
So now it happens a lot in the house, it has been collecting dust a long time but now it is much activity in there =)
 
 
(sorry for the bad quality)

castle

When my son was little and I would decorate his room, I found this castle on the internet and absolutely fell in love with it! I was looking where to buy it and found it. But it cost 6000 SEK so there was no castle for me (my son). Instead I he got a bunk bed with a slide.
But the castle is still in my head. It´s so nice! I still want one of those in my son's room. I've been thinking of building one myself, but now that I would decorate the doll house, I realized that I can build it in miniature! I was so glad I could finally decorate with one of those even if it is only in miniature =)

Mine is not done yet, Im going to paint the steps so that the whole is white, then I put in floors and pillows and a lamp inside =) But this is how it looks so far:

 
And this is the original: 
 
www.smallroom.se

Starting to decorate the Lundby house

Now I´ve finally started with the interior design for my Lundbyhouse! 
It´s do fun! Here´s just the beginning, no room is finnished yet ofcourse, but I just have to show you what I´ve done so far =) The flower in the bedroomwindow is a beautiful flower that I got from Linda in the miniature-swap. The room with the flyers will be a childrensroom =)
 
 

Furniture

A while ago I bought a new dollhouse. I really just wanted to buy some of the furniture, but it was cheaper to buy the whole house with all the furniture in it. I photographed the furniture, but you can not see the details very well.
I'll sell some of the furniture, but I can use some of them myself. I have repaired one of the beds and removed the pink bedspread on, so now it fits better in my other house.
 
 

While I was watching TV ...

This is what I did while I was watching TV today

Waiting for the mail...

 

I bought these things on tradera last week and waiting for them to plump down in the mailbox at any time. I'm so happy because I really wanted to make a copy of my self-designed lamp, though in miniature, so now I have finally found a cheap lundby lamp that I should re do =) This is what the original is looking like:


I had intended to use a Styrolit ball, but I wanted to be able to light it, so I waited until I found a cheap lundby lamp on tradera.
I "Happened" to bid on the stove and sink too =) I only have a mini kitchen that is red, but it wouldnt look good if I painted it, so now when I found a white, so I can finally make the kitchen the way I want it. Now I am waiting for things to come, then Im going to decorate more in my dollhouse that I'm doing right now.

More pictures coming soon!


Supplies

hobbyshopen
 
konstnarscentrum
 
mixnmatchsupplies
 
fred aldous
 
materialbutiken (balsa wood)

The Miniature Swap- pictures

This is what I recived in the miniature swap: 
 
 
from Hannah. http://hannahsminiatyrer.blogg.se/
 
From AnneLo
 
 
From Lotta
 
From Linda
 
It was really fun to make the swap and I hope there is going to be more swaps later =)
I just want to say thank you Hannah, AnneLo, Lotta and Linda soo much for all the nice things!

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