The Small World Daytimers Club Clay Projects

During a recent Clay Day of our Small World Daytimers Club, we made a Pinapple Upside Down Cake and a Ham.

Michael's Puzzle Dollhouse and Furniture

Here is another "Someday" project, the Michael's 1/2 inch scale house and furniture kit. These were on sale.

Brief Cat Moment

One of my cats would like to say "hello" or "feed me". This is Rusty, he is about 11. He was one of thirty cats rescued from a house of 100 cats. He is a very happy and lovable boy.

Dollar Tree Find

These four skeletons come tied together so that you can string them up. They are perfect dollhouse sized. I bought three packets of them! Great for haunted houses, doctor's office, etc.

More Garage and Rummage Sale Finds

Miniature tea pot NEVER out of package, 25 cents!

Bag of miniatures for like 25 cents!

More Garage and Rummage Sale Finds

Carrot eraser and pen/pencil comfort holders. Interesting colors, any idea on what I can do with them?

Skeleton necklace. Have not figured out if I will wear it for Halloween or use it on one of my dollhouses at Halloween.

Garage and Rummage Sale Finds

Small Styrofoam balls and Halloween sequence confetti. I am going to glue the Halloween confetti to mini twig wreaths with thin ribbon for Halloween wreaths.

Any ideas for these capped tubes??

Packets of beads, each 10 cents each!

I got these glass paints and fabric dimensional paints for 10 cents each!

I got a whole bag of these for real cheap. Any ideas on how I can use them???

These napkin rings were $1.00. I was thinking about making them into planters.

Here is Halloween ribbon that I can make into bags, gold presents and decorative snow. All of this was dirt cheap!

All this 6 inch doll needs is a cleaning, hair cut and some clothes. I am going to spray paint the table and use in my Michael's half inch scale house. The table and shirt were 10 cents each! The doll was 50 cents.

I found this in the toy section of a local church rummage sale. I think I will redo it with some paint and make other changes. This was $1.50.

Garage and Rummage Sale Finds

This is one of those "books" you can hide all your money, lol, BUT you can also create a miniature scene in it, too. The name of the book is "Treasure Island". Someday I will create a scene in it, keep watching.

I got published!

For those of you who are members of NAME, look in the latest Miniature Gazette that just came out. Two of my miniature projects that I submitted got printed. I still have not received my copy of the Miniature Gazette, so I don't know what pages my projects are on. One of my projects is a bowling trophy and the other one is an Oreo type cookie. They are very easy to make!

Click Here for "The Museum of Miniature Houses" website in Carmel, IN

The above picture is a dollhouse that is housed in an outdoor display case against the side of The Museum of Miniature Houses in Carmel, IN which is just north of Indianapolis. If you have never been to this museum, I highly recommend you take a trip there and see it for yourself. They told me that they change around the displays a couple times a year or so. Again, I took more pictures than I could post here on the blog. Some did not turn out well due to lighting issues. You will just have to trust me that it was worth the visit!

The NAME National Convention: Some pictures of other miniature displays

Here are some nice roomboxes that were on display at the convention.

The NAME National Convention: Some Pictures of picnic shelters

These are just a sample of what some people did with a picnic shelter kit they were provided with. There were many more! I got A LOT of pictures, too many to load on my blog!

The NAME National Convention in Indianapolis, IN

I spent the weekend in Indianapolis to attend NAME's 2009 National Convention. There were about 70 dealers (more or less), with many vendors only selling 1/2 or 1/4 scale miniatures. I am told "by those in the know" that 1/2 and smaller scales are becoming more popular, especially for those of us who are litterly running out space for our miniatures. I will stick with 1 inch scale, myself, as it is my preferred scale size. I didn't spend as much as I normally would at a regular show, but I did get the chance to see some dealers I had never seen before, thus seeing miniatures I had never seen before. Several members of my club, Small World Daytimers Club, also attended the convention as well. I think everyone enjoyed themselves. I will be posting pictures very soon! Keep checking back!

Kitten in a dollhouse

Awwwww, so cute!

I got this picture as part of an email today, and I had to post it on my blog. I have some pictures of my own cats in my dollhouses that I will post.

Garage Sale Find

I bought this cute Fisher Price car at a garage sale for 25 cents!!! I took off the stickers, removed the goo and cleaned it up. I wanted to take it apart and repaint it green, but it is glued together so well that I can't get it apart. I will probably have to just do a really good job of taping off the areas I don't spray painted in order to paint it. I thought about using some kind of primer on it and trying to paint it with regular craft paints. Any suggestions???

Homemade Mini Bed

I made this bed awhile back to put into my log cabin.

Recent Swaps I made

Sorry the cat mat is on the side, don't know why it came out that way. I made these in multiple colors for a swap. They are made from colored foam and stickers.

The basket on the left holds shells. The basket on the right holds towels and a bottle of shampoo.

The above shows neon signs I made for a swap.

Boutique Roombox

The pictures above are of my boutique roombox I created about 6 months ago. It is in lighted roombox I bought at a garage sale for $12! It originally had a Christmas scene in it, but I changed the wallpaper and paint and created the boutique.

Welcome New Followers

Welcome new followers! I am finding that there are a lot of great miniature related blogs out there, more than I ever thought! I just joined a bunch more. I love seeing what other people are doing out there!

Interesting Miniature Finds

Thanks to a blog follower of mine, I now remember where I bought these key covers above. I bought them at Books and Company (book store). They also own Books A Million. They were on the clearance table. They are soft plastic. I thought they would make great miniature shirts on a hanger.

I recently went to a strawberry festival in Ohio, and they were throwing away thousands of these. I asked if I could have some, and they let me have all I wanted, of course, I could not carry home ALL of them, but my mother and I stacked them and carried home a bunch of them. My husband must have thought I was crazy! Other than fences and windows, any new suggestions??? We are going to use some at our show this summer.