tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34255108522904699312024-03-13T09:18:44.704-04:00Micro Munchies (a.k.a. Honey Bunny Miniatures)Jackiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08499135223137080180noreply@blogger.comBlogger68125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3425510852290469931.post-17435799095805444462014-02-24T18:14:00.000-05:002014-02-24T18:14:03.043-05:00Miniature Cookie Jars and Mini Musical Instruments<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Hello everyone! Hope you are all having a beautiful mini making day! Just wanted to dash off a quick post to show off some of the wonderful minis we found online. Our daughters play the violin and the piano, so of course their dollhouses HAD to have music rooms too. We already had a mini violin and piano and needed more instruments to expand the symphony.<br />
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These photos are on my <a href="http://www.pinterest.com/mmhbminiatures/miniature-dollhouse-music-instruments/" target="_blank">Pinterest</a> board too. :) All minis are in 1:12th scale.<br />
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Darling little cookie jars from <a href="http://manorhouseminis.com/" target="_blank">Manor House Miniatures</a></div>
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Filled with our chocolate chip and jelly bean cookies that we made from polymer clay.</div>
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A 1:12th scale guitar from eBay.</div>
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The detail is awesome!</div>
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A lovely 1:12th scale flute!</div>
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An amazing miniature cello in 1:12th scale. The details are stunning! Right down to the foot on the bottom.</div>
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First off I want to welcome everyone back to my blog. I hope you all are having a marvelous early spring after this horrendous winter we've been having especially on the East Coast. I'm sooo over winter - ready for warmer weather and hopefully better health too. :) My health has kept me from blogging since late last summer and many projects have either gone untouched or I had a LOT of help getting the things you see in these photos completed. In the last several months I just never could manage to get to the computer to blog about the progress, and my severely arthritic hands would not cooperate enough to handle the minis or typing. However, I do update our dollhouse photos as they change through the seasons from my phone camera by posting them to my Pinterest boards here <a href="http://www.pinterest.com/mmhbminiatures/" target="_blank">Pinterest mmhbminiatures</a>, which you can visit anytime for more recent mini updates. It's so much easier to post pictures without blogging about them, as I've become a lady of many lesser words these days. ;)</div>
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Speaking of words, let's just get to the quick of it shall we and I'll show you some of the things my family and friends have helped me finish over the last few months. Thanks so much for stopping by my long abandoned blog. I'll try to keep current and also visit all of your marvelous blogs. For those of you reading who are also on Pinterest I've really enjoyed your dollhouse and mini photos; when I'm terribly ill, they brighten my day tremendously. I'd love it if you leave a comment, and promise to read them and respond whenever I am able. :)</div>
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Easter will be here before we know it...how about a nice spring flower and Easter egg wreath for the front door on the farmhouse? </div>
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Springtime flowers and plants for the music room too!</div>
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That is one messy sink! LOL Thanks to a tutorial on YouTube by Garden of Imagination we learned how to make bubbles for the miniature dollhouse sinks and tubs. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpkmK2-3TeU" target="_blank">Garden of Imagination - Making bubbles</a></div>
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If only all our household messes were THIS small. LOL</div>
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The third floor of the farmhouse underwent a renovation, this time, we did it right with the orientation of the room dividers and different wallpapers for each room. Ahhhh....we like this much better!</div>
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Awesome bubbles!</div>
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A.C. Moore had these on sale - miniature board games (they're really key chains, but shhhhh...we don't have to tell...LOL). They're not quite 1:12 scale, but darn close enough. ;) The Life game spinner really works! Total awesomeness!</div>
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The Monopoly board is magnetic, so the tiny playing pieces and dice stay put. No money or Chance cards yet, a good mini printies site should help us take care of that detail.</div>
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Mini 1:12 scale bikes painted to look a little more realistic. We're ready for spring now. :) This one we found on <a href="http://miniatures.com/" target="_blank">Hobby Builders Supply</a>. It was all white before we painted it blue with Testors enamel paints.</div>
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And this bike was at <a href="http://www.hobbylobby.com/" target="_blank">Hobby Lobby</a>, it was black, now painted red. </div>
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A thermos full of coffee in the bike basket - java juice is vital for those early morning rides in the spring sunshine.</div>
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Here are some dollhouse photos from last autumn- of the dollhouses all decked out for Halloween. More pics are on <a href="http://www.pinterest.com/mmhbminiatures/dollhouse-autumn-scenes/" target="_blank">Pinterest: Dollhouse Autumn Scenes</a></div>
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The natural swimming hole for the Victorian dollhouse got finished...yay!!!</div>
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And some dollhouse Christmas photos too (more pics on Pinterest: <a href="http://www.pinterest.com/mmhbminiatures/our-dollhouses-all-decked-out-for-christmas-in-112/" target="_blank">Our Dollhouses All Decked Out for Christmas</a>) - little mini micro lights we found on Amazon were the perfect teeny tiny lights to light these babies up. :) You can find the lights here: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00FVS6MIK/ref=ox_sc_sfl_image_3?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A3CFTGPNICL2HK" target="_blank">Amazon: Micro Lights</a></div>
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It's been a while, wow, make that a loooong while, since I eeked out a post. I miss "blog-dom" and I'm way behind on either of my daughters' dollhouses and any dollhouse miniature foods I've been dreaming of creating. It's the lupus. Always the lupus. :( Drat!! And this summer was no different. Hot weather = exhaustion. Mind numbing, OMG can't keep my eyes open, exhaustion. And the swelling and stiffness, in fingers, and feet. Flares make it impossible to spend any real amount of time working on my mini worlds.<br />
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So with the kids back in school since last week I'm looking longingly at my long neglected mini yards. Going to attempt something I saw online that appears to be all the rage in residential swimming pools in the U.K. (and starting to catch on over here in the U.S.) - natural swimming pools? They are really cool and beautiful as they fit right into the natural landscape. This would be perfect for the Victorian dollhouse. One, because the table my husband placed this dollhouse on is larger than the table under the Vermont Farmhouse Jr., so there's plenty of room, and two, since the little doll "family" that "lives" in the Victorian are doing some wonderful rehab with what could theoretically be a two hundred year-old home, I thought they would be the type of "homeowners" to tackle a natural pool project that will blend into what-will-someday-be a very naturally landscaped yard (hopefully with a <a href="http://www.realgoodtoys.com/products/gazebo-kit" target="_blank">Real Good Toys Gazebo</a> - oh how we dream.) And besides, this natural pool creation will give us a great excuse to use up the sand, Styrofoam, and bags of mini-rocks we've had in the craft cupboard for years.<br />
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Now the really BIG question is, how long will it take me to finish this project? Ha ha, only the lupus knows. ;) And I'll probably get a hand or two from my kids when they are not swamped with sports or homework.<br />
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The nice thing about miniatures is that I can do what I can physically manage, if it's 15 minutes, only 5 minutes, or oh boy, maybe even a whole hour on a rare occasion...and when my fingers lock up and stiffen from the strain of the work I can put it down, push it all aside and rest until another day. No pressure. I just work on the projects as am I able.<br />
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Here are some photos to show the progress on the natural swimming "hole"....click on the photos to enlarge for better viewing. I had a LOT of help with cutting, gluing the rocks was easier, but we got the job done. Thanks so much for stopping by my blog. <3 <3 I love all your wonderful comments!<br />
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Leftover artificial spring grass from Woodland Scenics came next. Hit it with a hair dryer on "hot" setting and it molds to the Styrofoam base. That huge rock to the left is something my now 16-year-old picked up when we were hiking in the mountains, about 10 YEARS ago...at least it reminds me that at one time I was able to hike. :) Good times, yes, good times. </div>
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A little trick my brother-in-law taught me about making ponds - brush dark green and black paint into the parts you want to create the illusion of depth or slopes under water. And brushing the darker paints on the grass didn't require a steady hand either - a definite plus for my shaky twisty fingers. :)</div>
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And there's the huge rock my daughter found and carried home in her jacket pocket when she was about 6! That is going to be the waterfall. Of all the rocks she used to pick up on hikes and collect, this was the one I saved and found hiding in the corner of my desk. Kind of cool to incorporate it into her dollhouse swimming pool now. </div>
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More rocks and sand will go around the outer edge of the pool, on top of the Styrofoam around the outer edge. Sort of like this real one I saw online, when I simply fell in love with this type of pool: <a href="http://www.ecolagoons.com/sites/default/files/natural-swimming-pool-5.jpg" target="_blank">Eco Lagoons</a></div>
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Thanks to <a href="http://realgoodtoys.com/" target="_blank">Real Good Toys</a> for making their high quality and easy-to-build dollhouse kits that helped us create this wonderful Vermont Jr. Farmhouse and its adorable additions. :) My health hasn't been the greatest lately...so I dropped out of "mini-world" again for a while for much needed rest. In the meantime my daughters helped put together some lovely decorations I just had to share with all my fellow bloggers.<br />
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The "Ross" resin doll from the amazing Houseworks collection, available at <a href="http://miniatures.com/" target="_blank">Hobby Builder's Supply</a>. The girls love these dolls, they said they aren't "scary" looking like some of the dollhouse dolls they've seen, LOL. They are very handsomely made and realistic. Awesome! The charcoal grill came from <a href="http://miniatures.com/" target="_blank">Hobby Builder's Supply</a> too, and the Adirondack chairs came from <a href="http://manorhouseminis.com/" target="_blank">Manor House Miniatures</a>, so did the mini flags. The side tables were handmade, so was the blue bench along the wall. And of course, the mini barbecue food too!<br />
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This darling little lady doll doesn't exactly fit in with the time period, but she's so lovely we just had to include her. :) Isn't that garden hose terrific? Thanks <a href="http://www.miniatures.com/" target="_blank">Hobby Builder's Supply</a>!<br />
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Another wonderful outdoor chair - from <a href="http://manorhouseminis.com/" target="_blank">Manor House Miniatures</a>!<br />
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The handmade white porch swing - took 2 months to create and line up the links in the chain just right so the swing sat evenly. But we like the end result.<br />
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Wait for guests to arrive for the barbecue - more Houseworks collection resin dolls from <a href="http://miniatures.com/" target="_blank">Hobby Builder's Supply</a>, helped create a welcoming front porch scene.<br />
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Handcrafted green porch chairs - some balsa wood strips and spray paint, and voila! Porch chairs!<br />
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I'm listening to the sounds of spring outside, birds are chirping, the sun is shining. Ah what lovely weather. And as soon as the temperature creeps up into the 70s and stays there a bit, I might be able to get out and enjoy some sunshine. My fingers and toes really suffer in cold and brisk weather and I can barely move them when it's cold. We had a run of 80 + degree temperatures a week or so ago, but sadly, those temperatures went straight back down into the 50s and 60s again. My joints definitely are not amused. </div>
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But the promise of warmer days ahead has definitely inspired some new exterior work...would you believe we glued together this darling little croquet set from bits of scrap wood we had lying around, and some paper clips and polymer clay? And since my hands are limited to what they can do with tools like hand drills or mini saws, making a miniature birdhouse out of wood was out of the question. So I tried another medium - polymer clay! It might not look as realistic as a wooden birdhouse, but it sure was easier on my hands to make these little cuties. </div>
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Hi everyone! It's finally starting to look like spring here in the U.S. Not only did we add a fabulous little mixer to our growing collection (it was white, but I painted it a fabulous bright orange), but there's lots of landscaping going on at the Vermont farm house. Pictures are worth a thousand words, so I just had to share. :)<br />
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Mixers mixers everywhere! We added the orange mixer, and, I found a darling unique antique looking hand crank mixer on eBay! See that red one in the back? A word about the orange mixer - this one is 1 1/4 inch tall, as compared to the ones that look exactly like this model, but are only 1 inch tall. I think the 1 1/4 inch tall mixers are much closer to 1:12 scale, so we're going to stick with those from now on.<br />
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And the tiny hand crank on the red one really turns the paddles! Awesome!!<br />
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The landscaping and the two-story and conservatory additions make this look like one heck of a hot property in Dollhouseville! :D <a href="http://www.realgoodtoys.com/" target="_blank">Real Good Toys</a> makes amazing dollhouse kits! And they're so simple to put together. The flowers in the flower boxes at the top windows are tiny flowers we stripped from larger silk flower bouquets and glued onto the boxes. The hanging baskets and the wreath on the door are made from polymer clay roses and seashells, glued onto clumps of <a href="http://woodlandscenics.woodlandscenics.com/?" target="_blank">Woodland Scenics</a> artificial grass.<br />
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The fence is nothing more than balsa wood and craft sticks glued together and painted white. :) The gate works because we put 2 tiny hinges on it. You can find packs of these tiny brass hinges at <a href="http://www.michaels.com/" target="_blank">Michael's Crafts</a>.<br />
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The sidewalk is made from Premo granite polymer clay and Woodland Scenics white sand for filler. The tiny white stones that frame the sidewalk are also made from polymer clay - white granite Premo. All the little flowers tucked into the Woodland Scenics grass along the borders are made from polymer clay too.<br />
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What's a front door without a welcome mat? :) Thanks to <a href="http://joannesminis.blogspot.com/2013/02/dollhouse-door-mats.html" target="_blank">Joanne's Minis</a> amazing blog this door mat was a breeze! I modified it a little by using paint pens instead of rubber stamps, but the effect is almost as good. She makes amazing tutorials and uses really clever ideas to make awesome dollhouse minis. Check out her blog! The step by step videos are very cool.<br />
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The pots for the flowers are made from polymer clay too - Premo sweet potato color. ;)<br />
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One of my friends suggested we needed a bird feeder. I whipped this one up using a dollhouse drinking glass, odds and ends from leftover jewelry findings, and sprinkled some poppy seeds, sand, and crushed spices from the spice cabinet in our kitchen into the bowl of the bird feeder. Does it look like bird seed? Close enough?<br />
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The bird bath is made from one of the same old jewelry findings we used for the bird feeder bowl. The post is made from some old scrap wood shapes, and spray painted white. Of course, our dollhouse birds are a little messy, they left little bits of bird seed and dirt behind. The water is hardened Triple Thick Gloss.<br />
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Polymer clay rocks, Woodland Scenics grass, and some hardened Triple Thick, and now we have a pond! With tiny orange polymer clay goldfish swimming around! :D<br />
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Future site of a raised bed vegetable garden - that will take a while to create. </div>
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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<br />
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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! <a href="http://www.ebay.com/itm/4-Vintage-ACME-Miniature-Appliance-Dollhouse-Kitchen-Magnet-Mixer-Blender-More-/171011339654?pt=US_Dolls_Bears_Toys&hash=item27d111f586" target="_blank">eBay</a> 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. :)<br />
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This post was inspired by Kim Saulter's wonderful blog, <a href="http://kimsminiatures.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">It's a Miniature Life</a>, which features many little 1:12 scale Kitchen Aid-type mixers in lots of delicious colors, and Roxanne Fern's <a href="http://bakinginminiature.blogspot.com/2013/01/16-playscale-mixers.html" target="_blank">Baking in Miniature</a> 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.<br />
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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! ;)<br />
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Jackiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08499135223137080180noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3425510852290469931.post-16888779526337187432013-03-20T21:23:00.000-04:002013-03-20T21:23:47.554-04:00Easter Giveaway Winners!!! <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I cannot believe how exciting this was! :D Not only did I discover many new and incredibly talented fellow bloggers to follow because of this contest, but the anticipation of who would win has been building every day as I saw more and more lovely comments coming in. So, without further ado, here's how we did the drawing (had to wait for dear youngest daughter to get home tonight after basketball and soccer practice ;)<br />
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Then my youngest reached in to draw the 1st name, to win the Easter Dreams mini. :)<br />
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Oooooooh......can't wait to see...who is it? who is it? Drum roll please........<br />
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Micaela!!! Our first name drawn is Micaela!! :D Congratulations!!!<br />
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Now, for the Easter Bread Prep Board.....my older daughter gives it a try....reaching in....<br />
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And who will this winner be?<br />
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Daria!!! The second name drawn is Daria Prus!! :D Congrats!!!<br />
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Micaela and Daria, Please send me your mailing addresses, so we can get the minis out in the mail this week. You can email them to me via the email link on the blog, at jackiemdwriter@gmail.com.<br />
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And I really and truly want to thank everyone who visited my blog and took the time to leave a comment to enter the contest, and for all of you who posted a link on your blogs! You are all tremendous and wonderfully talented, I feel so honored to be a part of such a terrific mini making community! :D Welcome to all my new followers, and many, many mini hugs to all of you who entered the contest and have been following along. This was so much fun, we're going to have to do this again!!<br />
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Jackiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08499135223137080180noreply@blogger.com40tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3425510852290469931.post-16002870690471272762013-03-05T21:21:00.001-05:002013-03-05T21:21:49.237-05:00Easter Giveaway Contest! <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
My first one! I am so psyched that I finally managed to create two adorable minis for my first ever blog giveaway. :) Celebrating reaching 100 followers (+ 9) and to thank everyone for following along since I started this little ole blog about 2 years ago. Your blogs have been such an amazing source of inspiration and creativity, I love following all of your mini escapades as well.<br />
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This being my first contest please forgive me if I don't get everything quite right, live and learn I guess. :) So feel free to send me a message if might have screwed something up in the contest rules. I'm always up for help. I'll keep the rules real simple so I can keep all my marbles together. So here they are:<br />
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1. Leave a comment on this post. Yep, that's it. Just leave a comment on this giveaway announcement post stating that you wish to be entered into this contest, and at the end of the contest I'll print off the comments page, and cut each name with comment into those tiny strips of paper. My girls and I will put them all in a box, and I'll have them do the picking. :) They love that sort of thing!<br />
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2. There are 2 minis up for giveaway. Each one is in 1:12 scale. One is an Easter bread prep board. We make these, for real, each Easter, and I <3 making them in miniature. And the other is "Easter Dreams" with a spring checkerboard cake (I was inspired by the new Wilton cake pan I saw in the craft store last week), an Easter basket, eggs, and a bag of jellybeans. The first two names we pluck from the box will win, the first name/comment drawn will receive the "Easter Dreams" mini, the second name/comment drawn will receive the Easter egg bread prep board. Once we have our winners I will post it all on the blog (with pics of the drawing) and the winners can email me their mailing info so we can ship the minis out asap.<br />
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3. The contest deadline to leave a comment on this post is two weeks from now, Wednesday, March 20th, at 6 p.m. E.S.T. in the U.S. That way that should give me enough time to ship them out so the winners can receive their pieces in time for Easter. :)<br />
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It's that easy. (I think) Did I cover everything? Rules? Deadline? How to win? Send me an email if I forgot an important detail.<br />
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<b>"Easter Dreams" - this prize will go to the first name drawn from the box.</b><br />
This mini includes one Easter checkerboard cake topped with yellow and pink roses, seated on a yellow cake stand; one Easter basket filled with Easter eggs, 1 wrapped chocolate bunny and 1 wrapped chocolate egg (see closeup pic below for detail of the chocolate egg and bunny without the wrapping); one slice on checkerboard cake with a scoop of melting chocolate chip ice cream; one plate of colored Easter eggs; and one teeny bag of jellybeans. All items are glued to the wooden circle.<br />
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This mini features a mini rolling pin sitting atop a mound of floured dough; one box of flour; one blue bowl filled with dough and raw eggs and a mixing spoon handle; one cracked egg on the board; several colored eggs and regular eggs lying about; and one freshly baked Easter egg bread. All items are glued to the board.<br />
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Thanks again for following! Good luck to all contestants! Spread the word, a contest is finally afoot at Micro Munchies! :D</div>
Jackiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08499135223137080180noreply@blogger.com81tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3425510852290469931.post-18943169577875872402013-02-09T22:04:00.000-05:002013-02-09T23:01:57.120-05:00Finally Completed the Christmas Projects!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Where does time go? Sometimes I'm not even aware of the days and how they pass so quickly. I'm only able to get a small amount of tasks done, nothing compared to what I used to. There was a time where I was punctual, when I got projects and deadlines completed on time, or even early! But alas my health (or lack thereof) gets in the way more and more. Lupus is a nasty thing, sometimes it's like having the flu for weeks and weeks without end. It inflicts mind numbing aches and swelling in my hands, feet, toes, knees, practically every joint I need to bend and function. But I made a commitment to myself a long time ago to complete these gifts, and complete them I did. Working on them a little bit at a time, 30 minutes here, 15 minutes there...and about a month and a half late, way past the holiday, they're done....but better late than never, eh? And now I've cleaned my work space of all the holiday stuff and can tackle a few new projects and get a piece ready for my first giveaway for all my terrific followers! Stay tuned for more info on the giveaway. And thank you soooooo much for reading and following my blog!</div>
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Happy New Year everyone! I'm still working on these ornaments for everyone I had intended to give one to for Christmas. But like everything else...it's taking more time than usual because of the challenges living with lupus. I tackle a little bit everyday when I'm not resting or my hands just won't work. I think if I can get them all done by Valentine's Day... I'll be doing pretty good, ha! :) I can't wait to get these completed so I can start work on my first ever giveaway contest for my lovely followers here on the blog...so stay tuned!<br />
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Hope you're all having fun with your minis. Thanks for stopping by to check out mine! Many mini hugs!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mmmm..spaghetti with meatballs! My favorite meal growing up!</td></tr>
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Jackiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08499135223137080180noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3425510852290469931.post-8320123966517848602013-01-03T10:00:00.002-05:002013-01-03T10:01:53.457-05:00Vermont Dollhouse - More Work on the Conservatory Addition<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Both additions have been painted and attached, they look marvelous! <a href="http://www.realgoodtoys.com/" target="_blank">Real Good Toys</a> is a win win for quality dollhouse materials! Just need to add the shingles and the exteriors are done!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Where in the world we're going to find a table/dollhouse stand to fit this very large house, I have no idea yet, but we'll figure something out. For now, our kitchen table is it. :)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The inside of the Conservatory addition - a.k.a. "music room" without the flooring installed.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A $1.26 block of adhesive backed vinyl tile from <a href="http://www.homedepot.com/" target="_blank">Home Depot</a> made a terrific "marble" floor that took a minute to cut and install. Who knew?</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The window interiors need framed, and we'll add a guitar, cello, music stand, perhaps a flute and some chairs, and some music infused pictures on the wall, and this room will be complete!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The future dining room on the first floor, and a child's bedroom on the second floor. We want to select just the right interior design and furniture. Woot Woot! :) We spray painted the ceiling in the dining room white first before installing wallpaper - learned THAT the hard way with the main house!</td></tr>
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Jackiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08499135223137080180noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3425510852290469931.post-60556966885194717532012-12-30T01:08:00.001-05:002012-12-30T01:30:03.928-05:00Vermont Farmhouse...still under construction...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The second addition is nearly done! The first addition, the conservatory, went up rather quickly. Easy peasy too! :) We just have the flooring and the interior window molding to install. A delightful wallpaper with musical notes on it was a perfect pick for the dolls' brand new music room...we even put the miniature baby grand inside to see how it would look. <br />
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Thank you so much for stopping by! :) Happy New Year everyone! With any luck we'll have the second addition done by then.<br />
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Jackiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08499135223137080180noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3425510852290469931.post-33534820977652767312012-12-28T10:05:00.003-05:002012-12-28T10:08:34.771-05:00More Mini Stoves - More Fun! :)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Hello and Happy Holidays to all my fellow bloggers and miniaturists! Hope you are all enjoying the holidays! It's great to have a break from the usual chaotic pace of life, so the slower lazier days of this week offers much for me to embrace and appreciate the rest.<br />
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I have a LOT of pictures for this post, finally catching up on posting about my progress repairing a huge lot of broken stoves that I purchased for a "song" from my favorite local miniature shop - Gibby's Dollhouses and Miniatures in Westminster, MD. And, the rest has been helpful and my hands eased up enough to allow me to complete another miniature stove ornament, only 5 more left to make, LOL. They might be finished by the 4th of July the way my hands have been feeling lately. They get sore much sooner, and my fingers lock up, and I have to stop and take many breaks in between. Sometimes the exhaustion piles on top of that, and it's a while before I can make a comeback. But it's okay, I work when I can and really learn to appreciate the moments when I am physically adept enough to create. I love my minis, and I miss them when I can't work with them.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This Pennsylvania Dutch stove came with no legs, three of the doors missing, and very banged up in general. A light sanding, a coat of black, flat spray paint, and the addition of wooden furniture legs and polymer clay molded doors and it looks almost like new again!<br />
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Thanks so much for stopping by! Many mini-hugs to all for the New Year!</div>
Jackiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08499135223137080180noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3425510852290469931.post-79515042099147573182012-12-02T08:53:00.001-05:002012-12-02T08:53:36.591-05:00Christmas Stoves & Holiday Wine Charms<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Hello fellow bloggers! Hope you all are doing extremely well and staying busy "baking" your Christmas mini goodies. :) Yes, we're still working on the stoves...there's a lot to make. But still easier than sloggin' through an overcrowded mall (In my case, rolling through...I got a new wheelchair which makes it much easier for me to go faster and keep pace with everyone, but I still prefer to stay out of crowded areas). And besides, these little mini ovens are much more personalized and unique than anything I can find there. ;)<br />
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Jackiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08499135223137080180noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3425510852290469931.post-4143038669435524972012-11-28T11:33:00.002-05:002012-11-28T11:33:45.829-05:00Candy Shoppe Christmas Stove!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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More stoves! More fun! This one for a friend with a sweet tooth! ;)</div>
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Jackiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08499135223137080180noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3425510852290469931.post-32873379428784783872012-11-27T00:55:00.000-05:002012-11-27T00:55:31.582-05:00Cooking Up More Christmas<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Here we have yet another stove, for Italian friends of ours. So their Christmas dinner will include a pan of lasagna. And a bottle of fine wine of course, with some assorted fruit on the side. </div>
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I am so excited to see that I have 101 followers! Definitely time for that giveaway I've talked about, for when my blog reached 100 followers. Looks like I know what the first post of the New Year will be...so stay tuned my dear fellow bloggers and blog-getts...and thank you all sooooo much for following! I will definitely "cook" up something really super duper for the giveaway. ;)</div>
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With my ability to "shop till you drop" severely thwarted by my health, I've been working on something all year long so that this year, I will have something to "gift" to our friends and neighbors who invariably stop by with something for our family during the holidays. This year, I got smart and planned waaaay in advance, and made them each something from the heart, my own personalized creations of mini foods that emanate warmth and friendship. How better to do that than a tiny miniature oven (signaling the warmth) and the bounty of holiday food and treats? I even added a tiny decorated Christmas tree to the display (finally found a good use for all those beads and bezels I've been collecting from thrift stores) for added holiday cheer. :) The gold bases will be personalized with an inscription of the family's name and the year. This is my first one, finally completed after months of working on it as my hands, joints, and my energy will allow me in small blocks of time during the day. The other ovens are in various stages of "doneness" and I think I'll be able to get them all finished to give out just in time for the holiday.</div>
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Jackiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08499135223137080180noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3425510852290469931.post-9407868799628094412012-10-31T20:21:00.001-04:002012-10-31T20:24:55.027-04:00A Hodgepodge of Stuff!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I'm back again, briefly. :) Oh how I miss the blogs! I am taking it easy, resting (lots) and any time I have the strength to play with clay, I go for it. Five minutes here, twenty minutes there. It adds up. Even with multiple daily rest periods. I accumulated quite a neat collection of pictures since my last post, and finally had the strength to post them. I couldn't wait to share these little cuties with everyone! Hope all of you are having some wonderful clay days!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Still working with tomato canes...one day, I will get these 100 percent right! Better than my first attempts, but not quite there yet. </td></tr>
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So my wonderful daughter takes some old mini magnets I made a while ago to snazz up her locker at middle school. And some of you know where I might be going with this...her friends of course wanted some cute little mini food magnets for their lockers too. :) Luckily I had some pieces lying around that I made a while ago when I made the teacher magnets. So I pieced some together and created little sets for her friends based on their personal noshing habits. One friend constantly says, "I like pie," and she really does like pie, so I made her a pie set with prep board. Another friend loves bacon, so that was easy, put together a bacon and egg set with toast on the side. And still another friend, well, she's just the cheeriest little person on the planet, and she loves rainbows. So what else? Rainbow cake with prep board and a few cupcakes thrown in for good measure. </div>
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My fingers are extremely stiff these days. They can't seem to decide if rolling clay is good physical therapy for them, or bad. So it's probably time I take another rest and leave the lovely clay work to those of you with excellent hand strength and dexterity. I'll be perusing all of your posts and admiring your creativity in the meantime. :) Living vicariously for a while. I noticed that I'm closing in on 100 followers since I first started this blog a year and a half ago! Wow! I am absolutely gobsmacked about that! So I'm definitely going to take a break so I can create some nifty little minis for a 100 follower celebration giveaway when I reach that blogger milestone! </div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Hello hello hello! I'm still working on the basics - fruit canes - before I get back to prep boards and mini food scenes. Fall temperatures are finally settling in, which makes my joints a little more bend-y. My exhaustion still isn't letting up, but over the past couple of weeks I had some little bits of energy to re-create the orange canes and lime canes (made plenty of lime wedges too for those teeny tiny tequila filled margarita drinks, ha ha!) I'm still experimenting with technique and true-to-life color shades, but here's what I have so far....</span></div>
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It's not exactly a "lemon tree" like in the song <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3FSRW2qFjM" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3FSRW2qFjM</a>...I just had this jaunty little tune rambling through my head as I rolled out my latest new and improved cane work. My first lemon slices a few years ago screamed "FAKE!" The segments inside were flat in color, almost opaque...nothing like a real lemon. Lemon candy...hmmm...maybe...but even that was a stretch! I finally figured out the right mix of translucent and color to create a more see through effect inside the lemon. And using really rough sandpaper to texture the outside of whole or half lemons is working well for me too.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">There we go! Now that's the size we want. Dollies in the dollhouse do not need watermelon size lemons! And I'm happy with the way the individual segments turned out. I've yet to see a real lemon slice where each individual segment is exactly the same size. Mother Nature is not perfect. ;) <br />
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Back to the grapefruit. When I first started making polymer clay miniature foods three years ago my fruit canes were...well...they were ugly. The colors were wrong, my technique, or lack thereof, made the segments look twisted. My recent attempt at making a decent grapefruit cane however, is a vast improvement. This cane is one that I'm not the least bit shy about using to adorn my little mini cakes and tarts. </div>
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Jackiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08499135223137080180noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3425510852290469931.post-47393941500481150182012-07-16T20:20:00.000-04:002012-07-17T19:40:03.571-04:00Planning Ahead - Grandma's Stove<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Helllloooooo.....I'm back. Briefly. I want to thank everyone from the bottom of my heart for all your well wishes and encouraging thoughts. I love reading your wonderful comments, they really make my day. These are indeed the lazy days of summer. Not because I want them to be, but because the lupus is still winning the battle with this latest flare. Not to worry though my fellow blog-ettes. :) I'm resting a lot, staying out of the sun, and exercising in the local swimming pool when I have the energy. I have a very supportive and helpful family and network of friends. <br />
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I haven't had the energy or physical strength to do minis, or blog, or comment, but every once in a while I peruse your blogs trying to catch up. The eye candy really lifts my spirits, minis really can do that! I did stumble upon a wonderful old-fashioned stove that I would love to make a mini scene with for special friends and family as holiday gifts. I'll take it easy and keep resting so that some day soon I can start to bring my mini dreams to reality with these adorable stoves that I found at one of my favorite brick and mortar dollhouse stores - Gibby's in Westminster, MD. Thanks Jeannette!!! So here I am, making a quick appearance to share my wonderful find with all of you!<br />
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I did have a little bit of time and energy to snap some pictures of the magnet sets I created for my daughter's elementary school teachers as an end-of-the-school year niftie giftie. We attached heavy duty disc shaped magnets under the prep boards so the magnets can hold up lots of papers or pictures, or whatever. </div>
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