Been a while...

It has been a looooong time since I have been able to post. My lovely 13 year old daughter brought a nasty virus onto our computer & we have not been able to fix it. So, I have not been able to do anything on my blog in over 3 months... it is killing me! My neighbor actually got a new computer last week, and kindly let us use their old one until we can figure ours out, so I thought I would try to update my blog while I get a chance. Wow it is hard to think back that far to remember what I have done since then. We had our Mini Christmas party through the mini club I belong to. I have learned how to make those cute little mushrooms that they had in the AIM magazine (either Oct. or Nov.) So I have been having fun with those. Also, someone in our club has old mini magazines from the last 15 years they have been bring them to the meetings to get rid of, so I have been scouring those for tutorials and ideas. I have also learned how to make some mini candles which turned out better than I thought they would. I will have to post some photos later when I can find my USB cord for my camera.

My daughter and I are getting ready to attend out local State Day event which I am really excited about. For those that aren't familiar with State Day, it is a miniature workshop event that is held within your state (North Carolina), and you all get together and work on the same project for the day. This year our theme is "My Little Corner of the World" below is a photo of what the finished project should look like:

You get the option of ordering a case to put your project in, and of course you can change the colors or the flooring etc..., but you all start out with the same basic structure. It is a lot of fun because they have tote bag favors that people make for you to use in your scene if you want to. They also will have drawings throughout the day and you all just hang out & work on your project together. I love to see how creative others can be. One of the ladies in my mini club is setting up a table there to sell her items she makes and she has invited me to sell at her table if I wanted to. It is exciting to think that I might be able to actually sell something that I make! I am really not that good and haven't had much practice, but it is fun for me to at least try. The really bad thing is that I have NO idea how much to charge for my creations.... I have always done my crafts just for me as a creative outlet, It is hard to put a value on it! Oh well, I am just interested to see if I can sell anything!

Well, I've got go for now. Hopefully I will be able to post soon & with photos.

"Do you have your exit Buddy?"

First and foremost I wanted to welcome my new follower Debbie. She has several blogs but I will give the link to her first one. This one is fun to read. Go check it out!

http://debbiestinytreasures.blogspot.com/

Thank you Debbie for joining!



Bunka Rugs





I guess it took me a while longer than the weekend to get these done. I did get the photos taken on Saturday, but then I got terribly sick & today is the first day I have felt like even getting on the computer. I realize now that the photos aren't that great, but you can get the idea. This is my bunka rug of one of my (many) favorite Disney characters "Squirt". The first photo is blurry, but the colors are accurate, the second photo, the colors are horrible, but it is more in focus. This was just one of those pictures that I could not get right no matter how I tried. So I gave up & posted 2.

Below is the bunka rug my daughter made of one of her favorite characters. (we are Disney freaks in our house) In all fairness her colors are not quite right because when I ordered the bunka, I did not know she wanted colors for stitch, so she just worked with what we had on hand. but over all, it turned out pretty good.



This is my little kit I found of a dollhouse for a dollhouse. It is all put together and painted, but I still have some landscaping to do. I had forgotten how fun these little kits were to do. I used to have several of them but the cat ate them, & I gave up which is probably why I found this one at the bottom of a box of mini stuff that had been in storage for years.

That is all I have really done with minis recently. Time just seems to slip by at an amazing speed at the moment. I have also received all 3 of my Etsy purchases for the gift exchange at our mini club, but I cannot post those yet. Our party will be on the 15 of this month, so some time after then I will get them posted along with what we received! Ohh I just love giving gifts!
I cannot wait to see if they love their gifts!

Well, I have to get ready for bed now, have a great night~

Time flies....

Wow! It has been over a month since I have been able to get on here. Whew, this is a crazy time of year for me! My computer died & had to go through the process of getting it all back in order. It was in the shop for over a week, which just about killed me. Then getting everything reconfigured to how I wanted it to be... well, took a while. Work, Kids, School, & Scouts pretty much took up the rest of my time.
I know this is a bit after the fact, but I do hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. Mine was rather unconventional, but wonderful none the less. My husband took both children to see his family for 2 days, so I got to be in my own home ALL BY MYSELF! it was heaven. I can't remember the last time I was actually alone with no interruptions. Probably before the kids were born.
I got some time to work on minis so I did finish another bunka rug & started a 1:144 scale dollhouse kit. I did quite a bit of sorting & organizing (which is when I found the dollhouse for a dollhouse kit). I have yet to touch the garage again.. I am not in the mood to do the garage, but maybe over Christmas....Hopefully, I will get a chance to post some photo's this weekend of the rug & almost done house.

I am also very proud to say that I made my first ever Etsy purchases! I must say that I am NOT an internet shopper... I am more of an instant gratification type of person. I do not do well with waiting for things to arrive when the postman decides it is time for it to come! However I do have to say that it was much easier than I thought it would be & the people were just wonderful! I will post some photos & their info once I receive it & take some photos' but it will have to be after our Miniature clubs Christmas party. They do a gift exchange, so I had to get a gift from me, & then one from each of the kids. They had a lot of fun looking through Etsy trying to find the "perfect" thing. I found some new ones to bookmark as well. :)

WELCOME!!!

I wanted to send out a warm welcome to my new followers:

Anneke - http://pieplyts.blogspot.com/

Kathi - http://beautifulminiblessings.blogspot.com/

Debie - http://piskies-and-poppets.blogspot.com/

Lori - http://ohminiofmine-loshcosh.blogspot.com/

Cate & David - http://soletluna.blogspot.com/

Nikki - http://nikkinikkinikki72.blogspot.com/


If they are new to you, check out their blogs! This is a real creative bunch!

Happy Halloween

We have finally finished trick-or-treating the kids are working on their candy coma right now... oh to be a kid again! Here is a pic of my munchkins hat....




This is her cool witch hat! I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this hat!

Well, I was really sad to see that I have not posted in a while, which really means I have not had time to do any miniatures lately. I just knew that when I did that last post, I would have the wiring done that weekend! But the reality is I have not even gotten to the store to buy the wiring tape, much less read about how to do it again. My current goal is to try again this weekend to see if I can get anything accomplished.
At times When I am reading through my favorite blogs, I really envy the time others seem to get to devote to their craft- getting to learn new skills & do the things their creativity leads them to. All of my ideas just seem to endlessly swim around my head with no way to try it out. Then I wallow for a few hours, put my big girl panties on, leave my own pity party & get back to my life.
So to pacify myself -I decided to post some photos of the very first kit that I ever did. It is a old type of toy store. Very basic... but still was a lot of fun.


This is the front

Looking through the bay window.

These bricks were really fun to do, I was so pleased with the way they turned out. I used the sticker kit & it was wonderful! So easy!

Same with the front sidewalk

Inside- photo is a little blurry, but it shows the lighting really well.

looking through the door

this is the birds-eye view. I did the wood flooring in there as well.

I hopefully will get some fun things done this weekend, I really want to make some blackberries that I found in a tutorial, also, I want to play with making molds for some of my breads. I have also been collecting some logos for the Chudley Cannons to put in Ron Weasly's bedroom.

About ready to tackle the garage

Well, I have been pretty busy with real life as usual, and have been sorting through all of my old stuff from storage trying to find places for it all. When I started this blog, I said that I had come across a few unfinished projects in all of my miniature stuff. One of the things I found was this partially finished garage that I had started as a State Day project back in 1994 (I think). Now, when I found all of this stuff I promised myself that I would finish up all of my old projects before starting any new ones, so I am about ready to start finishing the garage. Being that it was so long ago, I really have forgotten my original vision for this garage, so now in looking at it I want to add electricity to it so you can see the inside well, my main problem is that I have already put the wood siding on so I can't run the wiring on the outside and on the inside I have already glued in a floor (sandpaper pained grey) and painted the walls, so do I rip all of that up, or just work around what I had previously done?





the garage with no roof



slanted view



Front view



The way the roof was designed (not my patten), it slips inside the top, so the only place I can really put the lighting is on the side walls or on the inside of the front wall, almost directly over the front doors.
My other dilemma is how to finish the outside, weather to make it new or old looking & then to do natural wood looking or painted.

If you two (who might actually read my blog :) ) have any suggestions, please let me know.. I am at a loss at this point.