Making Some Changes

miniature living room

I stained my bookshelf and the legs of my white couch. 

I feel it makes the majority of my furniture work better together.

I made a new lamp using the cap from one of my kid's fruit squeezes.  I have a bunch of those caps and am planning on making a bunch more.

I also tried out how my mom's painting works with everything.  I love it.

More changes are coming to my temporary room.  I'm thinking white brick?  Maybe.

Boho Room Box #2

boho room box 

I'm fairly disappointed with how the wallpaper came out in this one.  I used a page from an old calendar and it wrinkled.  I should have backed it with some card stock first, maybe a different glue as well.  Too late.  My husband brought the box home from his Christmas party at work, it held chocolates I believe.

Lighting makes the wrinkles more noticeable.  The flooring was some scrap scrapbook paper I had left over from another project.

My ladder is a little crooked too.  I'll do better on the next one.  The stars and moon are the pop outs from some of my kids stencils. The butterfly mirror is from the Dollar Tree.

I made a stool from a wooden block and some twine.  The floral pictures are printouts and for those who don't know, the lamp is a chess piece with a lid and bead on top.

miniature bohemian room 

I used the second pallet sofa in this scene and the pillows are made from a material sample.  Not as happy with this room box as I was with the first but still love it.

Dollar Tree Minis

Dollar Tree Miniatures

I made another trip to the Dollar Tree and found some fun stuff for my miniatures.  

• The first thing is the makeup organizer.  Turned on it's side, I think I can use it in a shop or a bakery as a display shelf.  
• Then I found a pack of cats and dogs.  The dogs were too small but the cats look to be about the right size.  
• Of course when I saw the tiny clothes pins, I grabbed them up.  I am wanting to try and make one of those rooms out of an old detergent bottle here soon.  
• And last but not least the little boxes I picked up in the baby shower party favors, I think can be used as toy boxes in a nursery.

Boho Room Box #1

miniature boho room box 

I finally got around to finishing a permanent room box.  This one is of course boho themed.  (I've been on a boho kick lately.)

boho miniatures

This is one of those projects that I love, love, love!  I am super happy with how this turned out.

I bought this wooden box a while back at Goodwill for $2.00.  It is the same one that I used for the Halloween scene I did this year. This post.

miniature pallet furniture

I made the pallet sofa out of Dollar Tree version Jenga blocks and craft sticks.  I wrapped one of the girls cylinder shaped blocks with twine as well.  The brown pillow is made from $1 ribbon.  And the shelf is from a Dollar Tree wooden puzzle block.

Let me know what you think in the comments below.

Newest Minis

Diy miniatures

I've been working on some new minis.  The first, I got some new little wooden beads and made some new plants.  Then I cut out a clock face from a Walmart flyer and put it on a button to make this clock.  Last, my mother painted me a little oil painting and I framed it.  That's about as much as I have on the mini front.  However, I have started a project that I am super excited about so come back Wednesday for that!

Fixed My Mini Couch

diy miniature couch and chair

Remember the mini couch I made but wasn't happy with?  The one from this post?  Well I finally got around to doing something about it.  I took everyone's advice and made the back higher.  I also added some back cushions and I painted it all white instead of leaving it brown.  I am very happy with it now.

wooden doll

I also eyed this little wooden girl that I got second hand and that has been sitting on my shelf all this time and saw her in a new light.  She fits the new furniture pretty well I think.

Miniature Marvel

Miniature Marvel bedroom

Do you remember this post and the boat cover material samples I got.  I used this one as a headboard for this scene.  The wall mural is from a calendar. 

miniature boy's room

The bedding is some felt and an eye glass cleaning cloth.  The rug was from my sample stash.

I stole the backpack from my daughter's barbie stuff.  And the trash can was the lid from some hairspray.

miniature diy lamp

The little Avengers picture was from the back of the same calendar. The lamp was a chess piece with a lid on it.  (I save all my lids.)

miniature side table

I know that the figurine is actually an X-men and not an Avenger, but he's what I had available and it's all Marvel.  Also, the side table is the center pizza thing with a wooden disk on top painted black.

I'm super happy with how this scene came out and if I ever get around to making some new roomboxes, I will make this a permanent setting.

Short and Sweet: Black and White Scene

black and white miniature scene

I haven't had a lot of time for my mini making lately.  However, I do have plans for some permanent set projects rather than my usual temporary scenes.  Hopefully those will happen soon, but for now I leave you with this little black and white scene I put together a while back.  

Trash to Treasure: New DIY Mini Couch

diy miniature couch

I had some old jenga blocks and decided to make a couch to match my new chair.

miniature living room 

I'm not happy with it, so any advice one of you might have for improving it would be graciously accepted.

miniature living room

A little New Mini and Scene Creation

I didn't get very far in my mini making this last week.  But I did take this old game piece and paint it silver with some old nail polish.  I meant to showcase it in the scene presented below but the scene took on a life of it's own and it became less about the little house.

Miniature scene

I've got a lot of other stuff to catch up on so the next few posts will probably be short and sweet but I will keep them coming.

Boho Inspired

miniature boho scene

I made a new boho themed scene.  This time, however, I had some inspiration...

room inspiration

From this life sized scene I found on pinterest.  I didn't replicate it exactly but did copy some of it's elements.

above view

miniature scene

I had fun with it and plan on finding some more life sized inspiration for some more mini scenes in the near future.

New Prints and Lamp

miniature prints

I do not have a working printer currently so I had to wait until I could get to my in-laws to print these off.  I got most of them from ads for real life sized prints.

miniature lamp set

I also made a larger black lamp to match it's smaller counter part.

miniature dresser

Finally I created this little scene with my favorite "wallpaper".

Where do you find your mini prints?

New Mini Scenes

miniature couch

I found this scrapbook paper in my stash and tried it in this mini scene.  The shelf is half of a jewelry gift box.

miniature table

I've been thinking of trying to make a restaurant or bakery maybe.  This scene was a result of those ideas, so look for this again in the future.

miniature desk

miniature office

And finally, I put together a little office scene.  I attempted to make a tablet but am not happy with it, so I will try again.