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me cut a window opening on the right wall tomorrow also i need the floor tiles i ordered to patch into the floor first i ve always felt the kitchen needed a window i also want a window in the left wall of the front bedroom i am debating putting one in the left wall of the lounge room too but not sure it will fit with the dresser there i will have a think between now and tomorrow i have an idea to put a room in the attic and therefore a dormer window so for now i wanted to hang onto a spare window for that although it s likely too big for that maybe the window in the lounge room could be a round one thanks for reading this far hope you are all well posted by shannonc60 at 11 46 pm 11 comments labels english house mountfield english mountfield mountfield english friday august 16 2024 1 48 nob hill furniture hi all this is a little post for celeste who asked what were the original furniture sets for the tiny nob hill photos shown below from the information that came with the kit posted by shannonc60 at 2 00 am 5 comments saturday february 17 2024 i m not dead hi all surprise i know it has been a very long time between posts i have been doing a little mini ing on and off but mostly in the last 12 months i haven t had a lot of interest i have so many projects on the go too that when i look around my craft room it s overwhelming and i have no idea what to work on every project has a little annoying job to be done which is probably why it s still sitting unfinished anyway last year i accidentally purchased a reasonably big dollhouse locally which was a big surprise that i think must ve been built using the remember when dollhouse plan book it s identical visually but not sure about the dimensions i had intended using it for my one day toad hall but the ceilings are only 8 high so that was a fail so i am using it instead of another build i had earmarked for the greenleaf aster so will i end up building that now given i am up to my eyeballs in dollhouses projects it s pretty roughly built but it also has a lot of charm so i am keeping quite a bit of it as is with a little prettying up this is the photo i am using as inspiration i like the simplicity i started by taking the roof off making it more manageable and am working on the rooms on one end then will spin it around and work on the other end this is how it is currently looking i need to work out what sort of railing i ll use for the stairs and wallpaper for the living room bottom right i had planned on painting a mural all around but i don t know if that will ever get done i might paper it and then decide later if i paint something to stick over the top if you follow my red cottage miniatures facebook or instagram you might have seen i have been working on mini flowers here are some of my recent ones it is nice to have the tiny flowers but i can t say i am particularly enjoying the making part anyway i hope you are all well and still making minis occasionally take care posted by shannonc60 at 6 36 pm 12 comments labels mori girl remember when tuesday may 16 2023 long time no blog hi all i know it has been a very long time since i blogged it wasn t intentional i just haven t been mini ing back in november i received a bit of a slap in the face from a fellow miniaturist and it really just made me wonder what on earth i was doing so for the last six months i ve had very little interest in anything miniature i did some sewing and some paper crafting instead and really enjoyed doing something different we have spent the last month in the us where i was lucky enough to go to the chicago international i also got to see the thorne rooms colleen moore s fairy castle and kaye savage browning s miniature collection at the kentucky gateway museum it was spectacular no words really do it justice so given i have nothing to show that i have been working on i will show my show purchases the photos are out of order for which i apologise but i am writing this on my ipad and not at all convinced i can rearrange the photos successfully close up of a clock d tales miniatures squirrel puppenstuebchen i think and key with tassel from june clinkscales clock squirrel and key as above basket also by d tales bag by minis2you and wine carrier by pierluigi i think these are all puppenstuebchen except the dragonfly by lami s minis sorry i don t remember these things too well plus they ve all been tucked in a box for a month half scale plants by paula gilhooley and basket also by d tales flowers for planting in a garden by twinheart a decent photo of the dragonfly the best thing about my visit though was that i got to meet two long time friends keli and robin having them to wander around the mini show and have dinner with was really a highlight next time i hope we have more time anyway keli gave me this vintage 1 24 scale stove and some sweet millie august wallpaper how cute is it so now i have the dilemma of whether i paint it or not it is missing a leg and the paint is badly chipped so perhaps i will give it a replacement leg and paint it up for one of my houses a tureen art of mini a box of oil paints and two kitchen tins on floor alemikimikri and roller skates and ice skates minis2you i think this is a type of stove from peiwen pettigrand which reminds me i should message her and ask i bought it largely because i just loved it and have long given up worrying about having a specific house or scene for things to go in a closeup of the paints i have some other bits and pieces still to show you but that will wait for another post i really splurged after having to cancel this trip twice already and a few years of saving up but guess what i really want to go again next year we will see i guess posted by shannonc60 at 8 11 pm 16 comments labels chicago international 2023 saturday september 17 2022 chateau update plus other stuff hi everyone i have spent a good few hours this weekend making progress on my chateau there has been some setbacks including a diminished supply of a paint colour i needed that has become rare expensive i solved it by getting a sample pot of paint using colour match so now i have a big pot of paint plus the formula to make the same colour again if i need it in future so many parts got repainted in the new paint and we re back on track i finished my wall mural last weekend and here it is temporarily held in place in the entry now some trimming of parts to make everything fit a bit more painting and then we re very close to done wondering if this needs a sky blue ceiling it s a really satisfying place to be the salon is currently having the front wall panels glued in place so no photos but it is also progressing i have also begun seriously rehabbing the fairfield i bought a few years ago not much to show but it has been partially pulled apart and reglued it was an example of what not to do wallpapers in slots and on tabs hot glue parts not meeting up the whole base is twisted and no idea how or maybe the base is fine and the whole house is twisted this is a reminder of how it looked i pulled out the fireplace wall as i will make a new wall to go there with a fireplace to the left for the living room and a stove to the right for the kitchen and here stripped and reglued if i haven t already mentioned this will be a seaside house based loosely in the early mid 1960s because i loved the book clarence takes a vacation so much this is how the exterior will roughly look although at this stage not sure i am going to attempt the curved front window but we ll see i have also been making miniature baskets with some slow improvement these are all earlier ones except the green one at the back and the white one at the front it s a fun pastime but i am still testing thread thickness to find the perfect size and the last thing i will share with you today is my robin betterley liberty bay shop sorry it s a bad photo i pulled it out after many years of sitting it turns out there were only a few things left to do to finish it i hadn t attached the box that sits inside the frame at the back to enclose it and wondered where the heck those pieces would be i had just finished reorganising my craft room which is why i seized upon the shop in the first place and i recalled seeing a little bundle of wood and acrylic bits and they were the right ones miracle of miracles as i seem to spend more time looking for stuff than doing any mini making so now it s just finding some pieces to go inside although i do have a few accessories already ok i will leave it there as this is getting quite a long post and i am hungry two good reasons to stop hope you are all well we have a 4 day weekend next weekend so i hope to have more chateau progress to show soon and finally i can start planing the next storey dining room and another room to be determined a whole new set of dilemmas fun stuff take care out there posted by shannon at 9 47 pm 14 comments labels chateau french chateau greenleaf fairfield saturday july 23 2022 mid year update hi all i have been slack this year on posting here i apologise for that i feel like i haven t achieved a whole lot though as mentioned in my previous post i have been working on the chateau progress is slow many layers of paint but i have been painting a mural for the entry you can still see the underpainting in places the birds a plant on the left side of the largest panel the stairs and the pagoda rotunda thing the main images were taken from a real life garden at villa ephrussi de rothschild in france website here the narrow panel and the largest panel sit either side of a door the birds will sit above the door and both the largest panels go up one side of the stairs hence the sloped bottom edge if only i could come up with a good stair rail design i d be set and this is the rejigged salon i am working on the front window wall and curtains for it see below i am adding a cut down lace fringe trim to the curtains here i am trying to get the colour right i have cut and shaped my pieces and will paint them then glue everything together i hope it is convincing i found a scrap of faded silk in just the right colour in my hoard but it wasn t enough then i came upon a larger piece that was unfaded so i ve had just enough to make the curtains and hoped i didn t screw it up i also had a table selling my half scale kits at the victorian association of miniature enthusiasts show earlier this month here i am at my table it was fairly quiet so i didn t sell anywhere near as much as i usually do maybe the early effects of a slow economy and also i have been accumulating mini doll moulds i have been pretty lucky to get quite a few doreen sinnett janna joseph and a few other moulds so i am trying to get some cast these are in porcelain slip my first attempts wow is it fragile i am not sure i will make more this way i will get these ones fired and then decide fyi i have poured parts for complete dolls this is just the last few parts i needed to make complete dolls so after that not so exciting update i am off to do a bit more on my curtains i hope you are all well and still making minis xx posted by shannonc60 at 5 46 pm 13 comments labels chateau french chateau friday may 6 2022 sydney miniatures show hi all thought i d write a quick post to show some pics from the sydney mini show last weekend there weren t labels on the displays so not sure who made what i do know that this first photo was a workshop from a cat n co workshop at the last amea convention these are most of the minis i purchased items for the chateau from christmas everyday rolypoly doll and artwork by dawn faberge egg by lady sitting next to my table wish i got a couple more basket by lidi stroud and everything else from andrea currie also wish i d got more and gifts from my husband who helps me at the sydney show a bookcase and rocker made by lynn palmer https www jarrahminiatures com plus a few other bits and pieces like lace some stair spindles and fabric i got a bargain lot of doors a window table legs corbels and two bed kits and a dressing table kit made by small pleasures and long ago discontinued so the mountfield might get an attic bedroom and this beast a ginormous 1 24 san franciscan i will put a lot of my bespaq in this it s got big rooms i made some interior wall adjustments and will now need to alter door and window openings in situ what a job it was so lovely to meet so many of my customers as well as having time to chat to other makers really made the long drive worthwhile i have been working on other minis in dribs and drabs i have been trying to get a little done on the chateau most weekends in an attempt to finally get a couple of rooms done i haven t posted about it in soooo long but i pulled the whole structure apart to reconfigure it i decided to use photos of one paris townhouse rather than make it an amalgam of different french buildings as i couldn t decide on details the last time we were in paris 2018 we stayed in an apartment that was to my surprise just a few houses down from a house linda carswell had posted photos of on her blog i was enamoured of it then and still am now so it became the dream so i will post some photos soon i hope of that project i decided to really make it my own and forget about sticking to time period architectural rules it s an old house set in modern day so i can do with it as i wish somewhere i would live myself also just wanted to let you know that i was trying to post comments on your blogs for a few weeks and it wasn t working and then i figured out why it wasn t working and fixed it so i can comment again my apologies i wasn t ignoring your posts i just had a brain fart ok take care everyone i hope your mini and real lives are going well and playing nicely xx and sorry it wasn t such a short post afterall posted by shannonc60 at 11 14 pm 8 comments older posts home subscribe to comments atom contributors shannon shannonc60 followers blog archive 2025 1 june 1 hello long time no 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