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!

Mini Hourglass

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

 http://www.greenleafdollhouses.com/dollhouse_news/OCT2010/bewitching-hourglass.html

Miniature Christmas Trees

Make Some Vintage-look Bottlebrush 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.

Make Some Evergreen Bottlebrush Trees

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.  

Do you like to craft dollhouse miniatures?

This blog was created as a place to collect and share all my notes for making dollhouses and miniature furnishings.    I have accumulated hundreds of tips for making things from found materials and would like to see them organized for easy searching.   I'm hoping Blogger might be the easy answer!   Talk to you soon after gathering my notes! ....Minnie Dolittle