Mixer Mania

First of all I want to thank all my lovely followers and welcome the newbies and all those who entered my recent Easter giveaway. We had so much fun and now the minis are on their way to the far away lands of Finland and Russia! I'm so psyched thinking that minis made by little ole me here in the States are now going to have a new home in amazing locales across the globe! Un-freaking-believable! Yay!!! :D

For a while now my daughters and I have been on the lookout for unique little mixers for their dollhouse kitchens. We are HUGE bakers (in real life) and mixers completely fascinate us. Especially miniature ones! And boy did we find some cuties! eBay sellers had adorable ACME mixer magnets in playscale size that we bought and repainted in vibrant metallic and primary colors. The ACME mixers are a little big for our 1:12 scale dollhouses, but we just pretend that the dolls do a lot of baking and these are large commercial size mixers. :) Then we found another tiny little mixer on eBay that was rather drab in color (but had an awesome round wire beater attachment and a clear mixing bowl) so we repainted that one pink, and we also found a wooden mixer we repainted and replaced the really tiny dough hook with an eye hook from the hardware store. And then there are a few of the typical dollhouse mixers you find online, which we also repainted. Just for fun. :)

This post was inspired by Kim Saulter's wonderful blog, It's a Miniature Life, which features many little 1:12 scale Kitchen Aid-type mixers in lots of delicious colors, and Roxanne Fern's Baking in Miniature blog post on Playscale Mixers. Head on over and check out their blogs if you haven't already, these two women are amazing miniature artists, their kitchens are the most fabulous mini kitchens I've ever seen! They look so darn real! And I believe that Kim has a new book out that really showcases her fabulous work with mini kitchens. :) I'm going to have to definitely buy that book from her.

I also changed the design of my blog. Trying to make it very "reader friendly" and easy on the eyes, but still splashed with color. Let me know what you think of the new design, did you like the old design better? I love comments and read them all! ;)

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All the little mixers, all lined up. (And Angie Scarr's wonderful books on mini making in the background.) 

The light green mixer on the left is the tiny wooden mixer we purchased from  Manor House Miniatures, and repainted and added the eye hook. The pink mixer next to it we found on eBay and repainted it. That one was particularly unique in design. The yellow mixer came from Hobby Builder's Supply, it came in silver and we repainted it yellow, and the red and blue mixers we've had for a while, purchased online (they were white) from an eBay seller. :)

Love this unique little gem! :)

Another Hobby Builder's Supply mixer. This one is really tiny, and it doesn't have a cord (the cord you see is attached to the blue mixer next to it.)

Sans bowls! So you can see the paddle attachments better. :)

I really liked the wire whip attachment on the pink one (which was a very dull shade of brown and tan when we purchased it). 

This is how some of the mixers are displayed in the dollhouse. :)

Thanks for stopping by! Have a merry mini day! :D