A miniature medley

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I painted a tattered looking dollhouse cabinet with doors that opened but didn't have any glass so didn't look good, which I removed to create a nice bookshelf with the feel I'm trying to create in this dollhouse. Colourful and cheerful, rather than "grown up" is my aim here, because I've read and can see that dollhouses for young kids go in for colourful. Victorian style stuff is something older kids go for, but at a younger age the charm would be lost and stuff would really get ruined.

So anyway, here's the mini bookcase stacked with mini books, as well as a mini trash can, a barbell for the fitness conscious doll, a sink that now has a turning faucet, and some colouring in pencils. I didn't make the tortoise under the table, but he keeps making it into the photos because he's so darn cute. :-) I'll call him George, after the last remaining giant tortoise, aptly named Lonely George because when he dies... his species goes kaput. He lives on the Galapagos Islands, bless him.

Here are some of the children's books I shrunk down and made into mini books. Yep, Everyone Poops sits happily alongside Red Riding Hood. Eclectic taste is something to cultivate from a young age, no?





The books open and can be read, though the text is so tiny it's a good job most of them have pictures too.



The lid comes off the little bin and I also made some light switch plates to add that extra bit of detail to the rooms. Pretty soon it's going to start looking really homely, I think. I'll show you the effect when I've fussed with them a bit and glued them in place.

Toodles 'til then!

Comments

[zillah975]

I love the tiny books so much! And I love the photo that shows you "reading" one, because it shows the scale. So wee! And the tiny bowl and lamp, and the pencils -- and, omg, is that a can of Heinz baked beans?

[pixiewildflower]

I love that little bookshelf.

[holyschist]

This is adorable!

I'll call him George, after the last remaining giant tortoise, aptly named Lonely George because when he dies... his species goes kaput.

Well, Lonesome George is the last of his particular species of giant tortoise, but there are several other species of Galapagos tortoises still around.

I got to see him a couple years ago--he is a pretty grumpy tortoise, and mean to the females they put in with him (although they finally did a genetic study and found that another species is genetically closer, so that may be an issue...not sure why they haven't tried different females yet).

[sharp2799]

I'd love to know how you made the book covers! Unless it's a secret of course. :)

[ethicalcannibal]

Holy cow! That is great. How did you do the books? I'm so impressed.

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Thank you! I'm going to friend/add you to my circle now, if you don't mind. :-)

Baked beans - you bet! I'll add lots more cans once I get enough of them to cover. Then it'll be mini-larder time.

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Thanks! :)

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Thank ye!

Poor old George but lucky you having seen some of those tortoises. I saw a BBC documentary that was pretty hilarious in that they hired a human woman to try and get some of George's sperm.. and she was talking to him in a sexy voice, stroking him and stuff, having a "relationship"... *cracks up*. She got him hard once but never got him off. Geeze Louise.

Yeah, he seemed a bit of a grumpy old man. Can't say I blame him.

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No secrets around here m'dear! Ask any time about anything. I'm unoriginal and willing to share. The books were an exciting project I found a great tute for over here. And for added good measure, here's how to make the colour pencils.



:-) Post yours if you make some and have fun!

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Really great book tute <--- here.

Thank you! They took awhile but I reckon it was well worth it. If you (or anyone) want to make some I'll share some of the shrunk kid books I made with you, no problem, and you could just cut and glue them.

[zillah975]

Yay beans! Yay mini-larder!

And I don't mind a bit, though I don't know that you'll find anything of interest to you there. :)

[holyschist]

O_o There is a job I am glad not to have!

I'm sort of amazed Galapagos tortoises ever manage to reproduce--they seem to be almost as bad as pandas at figuring out the mechanics.

(Of course, even if George did have babies, they'd be hybrids with another species. :-/)

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I guess it's no fun to be the last man standing. :-/

And the woman in the documentary was sort of apologetically smiling about her weird job. She was kind of pretty too. It was really amusing. I hope they paid her enough.

[ethicalcannibal]

Amazing and great tutorial. Thanks for pointing the way. You're always so fantastically helpful.

[zoefruitcake]

love the book case!

[miniproject]

That's really nice of you to say. Thanks. :-)

[winter_tulip]

Your attention to detail is incredible.

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Thanks chica.