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Saturday, November 20, 2010

Make a Garden Wall Vignette with Bench

Make a mini vignette with this pretty curved brick garden wall and stone bench from air-dry clay.   Tutorial from Louise Win shows us how  http://louisewinminiatures.weebly.com/tut-garden-wall-and-bench.html

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Make a Tree Stump Garden Vignette


Centerpiece tree stump for a mini garden made with Styrofoam and air-dry clay. Tutorial from Louise Win includes daffodil and a bird
http://louisewinminiatures.weebly.com/tutorial-tree-stump-part-1-and-2-daffodils-and-bird.html

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Spotlight on Artist: Betsy Niederer

Betsy Niederer creates fabulous, delicious-looking faux food in miniature using polymer clay and a few embellishments!    The following video will give you a taste (pun intended) of these special miniature treats!

Monday, November 1, 2010

Mini Hourglass


Hourglass made from pill capsules....see project instructions at

Miniature Christmas Trees


Vintage style miniature bottlebrush Christmas trees made from sisal rope.   The ones shown below are natural color but the sisal can be dyed green or dipped in glitter ...results shown above.


Below is another version of the  Bottlebrush Tree from  BuildingModelTrains.com.  This tutorial is for model railroaders, but just change the scale a little to fit your dollhouse.   This tree is also made with sisal but is also spray-painted and dipped in purchased landscaping foliage (foam) to create an Evergreen tree for landscaping.


Pretty Autumn Picket Fence


Instructions for this mini project at
http://www.greenleafdollhouses.com/dollhouse_news/OCT2010/pretty-autumn-picket-fence.html

Window Box


Let's start off this blog with some new mini projects featured in recent newsletter from Greenleaf.   Window box instructions here http://www.greenleafdollhouses.com/dollhouse_news/OCT2010/picket-fence-window-box.html  and filed under W.