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This year I was assigned to host our doll club meeting for September. I prepared these handmade gifts to give away to the other 7 members of the club. I had to make them when my baby took her nap during the day or late at night when she’s in bed. For a whole month, I scanned, took pics, photoshopped, prototyped, printed and assembled these paper miniatures. I only made the ones you see in the pictures, and had our club members make the doll boxes as a craft project for the meeting. All effort was worth it seeing how ecstatic our club members were upon seeing their gifts.
I got the idea from Rogier Corbeau’s work during the Barbie Convention. He created this really awesome store diorama for the silent auction which sold for $3,400! Thanks to Jim Taylor too for posting his work on facebook for me to oogle at.
The shelves were made by etsy seller Mihail.
*I do not have plans of selling these as I don't want to get in trouble with mattel, but once I find the time, I am considering uploading some of the graphics so you can make them yourselves.
Exhibit titled Mount Davis Squatters by Tony Li, part of Unique Hong Kong in Miniature Exhibition.
You can use heads and bodies of visitors in the background to gauge the size of this miniature model.
Squatter residences were built illegally in the past using iron sheets and timber. Their inhabitants had mostly been relocated to public housing estates.
Maritime Square, Tsing Yi, Hong Kong, China (Sunday 21 April 2013 @ 3:19pm)
A miniature set made for a documentary film - "My Dream House" - "Four families in Israel/Palestine built their Dream Houses. This process confronts them with the wounds of their past and takes us to their dreams for a better future"
This miniature rooster was popular among the visitors at the Gaya Street Sunday market. I am not sure if he is a potential meal or a pet.
Blogged: Kota Kinabalu, People and Places, Street Photography.
Of course I couldn't resist some treats for myself.
Easel is by Bernard Levevre
Pottery by Elisabeth Causeret
Tea Pot by Lory - 64tnt
Dwarf in Glass and mini origami by Mariella - Muffa's Miniatures
Not from the SIMP
Shelf by AmazingMiniatures
Couch table by Roland Irle
These are nearly all my actual Re-ment food miniatures. As you can understand from this photo I love sweeties! And my dolls too!
Ecco la maggior parte delle mie miniature Re-ment tutte insieme. Non so se si capisce ma mi piacciono tantissimo i dolci!
E alle mie dolline pure.
Miniature donkeys, sheep and goats are kept on the property as well as Black bears, zebra, buffalo, tigers and hyenas which are just some of over 100 animals that currently call Nemacolin Woodlands Resort home.
Work in progress
I am sampling a miniature outfit for my new exhibition piece. It's tiny ( less than two inches high) and is made from fabric, paper and hand and machine stitch.
Only two more outfits to go!
Spent today at "Miniature Fair". Met some dolly friends and bought lots of stuff to Villa Bastet. This is most of my haul. I really like that orchid on right: very realistic ( will end up to be Euro Auntie's apple of her eye.)
The funniest item is a book named " My basic rights in European Union"- it's a real readable miniature book: but my near sight is too bad to read it :-( ( But I bought it to my dolls anyway, lol)
A 1/6th Scale Regent Miniatures Diorama.
Regent Miniatures is also featured in 1Sixth.co Magazine and you can get the magazine, ebook/PDF by visiting the 1sixth site or this link: www.blurb.com/b/8449117-1-sixth
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Photos by Steve McKinnis of stevemckinnis.com
Join our new group Miniature Sunday - HMS! and learn how to make these fake miniature shots!
I don't think this one worked all that well but it is just a bit of weekend fun!
Tilt-shift photography refers to the use of camera movements on small-and medium-format cameras; it usually requires the use of special lenses.
Location: Central Market LRT Station, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Note: Appreciate honest opinion in SIMPLE TEXT in lieu of awards, glitter text, images and group invites.
Sharpener tv and telephone, made in Mexico, furniture from Ikea. Retro chair made by an artisan, replica of the Petit Princess Furniture, scale 1:16.
Miniatures from Rement.
Desk: made by me
Tulip chair: Kim Selwood
iMac: My Generation minis
Files, file boxes and ring binders: Delph miniatures
Phone: Rement
Lamp: Vintage German
Blogged about here: theshoppingsherpa.blogspot.com/2008/09/modern-miniatures-...
A series of photos I took at my friend's home, which she and her family turned into a miniature Christmas wonderland.
Part of my Daily Dolls House December challenge. Blogged about here: theshoppingsherpa.blogspot.com.au/2013/12/the-endless-sum...
The daisy is little more than 1cm (1/2 inch) wide.. so the bee is tiny!! It looked like an ant and it was only because I noticed the tiny yellow pollen sacs that I realised it was a bee. It had a large bubble of liquid (saliva?) which it was continually rubbing its front legs through... could it have been mixing it with the pollen?
Thanks to Katarina (kasia-aus) for providing the likely explanation... bees regurgitate nectar and dry it until it reached the right sugar content. That's what the bubble is.
I am finding miniature photography really challenging. Had a few attempts over the past week & am still waiting for some new inspiration, hopefully it will turn up soon!
At only two centimetres in diameter, this continental silver, reverse glass painting and guilloché enamel brooch is a miniature piece of art. Of Austrian origin, it is marked on the reverse with the number 900, it is made of 90% pure silver and is only just shy of 100% quality sterling silver. Many high-end jewellers in Vienna made 900 grade quality silver jewellery for the wealthy upper-middle and upper classes during a period of great economic and cultural growth between the 1890s until the outbreak of the Second World War. Turn of the Twentieth Century Vienna is also famous for its love and support of the Jugendstil movement (the artistic style that arose in Germany and Austria about the mid 1890s and continued through the first decade of the 20th century, deriving its name from the Munich magazine Die Jugend (“Youth”), which featured Art Nouveau designs), through famous institutions such as the Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Workshop), established in 1903 by Koloman Moser and Josef Hoffmann, and artists like Gustav Klimt and Emilie Louise Flöge who were supported by wealthy patrons and philanthropists like the Bloch Bauer family.
This year the FFF+ Group have decided to have a weekly challenge called “Snap Happy”. A different theme chosen by a member of the group each week, and the image is to be posted on the Monday of the week.
This week the theme, which incidentally will be the final weekly “Snap Happy” theme before reverting to monthly on the 5th of December, is “anything at all… as long as it is small” which was chosen by me.
The stylised Art Nouveau woman in this brooch is painted in reverse directly onto the glass, an art form with its derivations found in Middle Age Central Europe, which reached its zenith in the 19th Century when painting on glass was widely popular as folk art in Austria, Bavaria, Moravia, Bohemia and Slovakia, but was also taken up by highly skilled artisans who created fine miniatures using single hair brushes. This brooch is one of the latter. The finer details in the forefront of the image you see were painted first using a single hair brush, followed then by the blocks of colour filling out the image using various brush types and thicknesses, building up the image in reverse. This brooch is unusual and was probably more expensive or may been have been a commissioned bespoke piece because it has a brilliant yellow guilloché enamel background. Guilloché is a decorative technique in which a very precise, intricate and repetitive pattern is mechanically engraved into an underlying material via engine turning, which uses a machine of the same name, also called a rose engine lathe. This mechanical technique improved on more time-consuming designs achieved by hand and allowed for greater delicacy, precision, and closeness of line, as well as greater speed. Translucent enamel was applied over guilloché metal by Peter Carl Fabergé on the Faberge eggs and other pieces from the 1880s.
Two phases can be discerned in Jugendstil: an early one, before 1900, that is mainly floral in character, rooted in English Art Nouveau and Japanese applied arts and prints; and a later, more abstract phase, growing out of the Viennese work of the Belgian-born architect and designer Henry van de Velde. This brooch is definitely of the pre-1900 phase both because of the image of the young woman in the brooch, but also the foliate filigree work in the silver mount.
Continuing our miniature Oribana project! :-) Folded this mini-version of our Oribana composition "Enticing" - it's just 3 inches (7.5 cm) high. Starring models are Mini-Rose designed by Yuri, Jasmine and Semicircular Vase designed by me. We used washi, hand-made Japanese paper, called "Moriki Kozo" for every element in the composition - the plants and the vase...
Originally posted this art-work in our Oriland facebook page... and I wanted to share it with you here as well :-)
A note for Origami enthusiasts: The diagrams are published in our ENTICING PAPER ROSES eBook
www.oriland.com/store/ebooks/enticing_paper_roses/main.php Happy folding!
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I have been collecting miniature tools for a number of years. I'm still short of a couple to complete my collection but happy with the way it's growing. The wooden rule at top is 2 feet = 600mm to help understand the size of items.
Design: Shuzo Fujimoto & Peter Budai
3x3 Grid, 9 tiles, starting paper size: 20 cm / 7.8 in - finished size: 8.5 cm / 3.3 in, 5 levels, smallest petal size: 0.4 cm x 0.7 cm / 0.15 in x 0.27 in. Folded most time with tweezers and toothpick. ;)
This was the actual design that inspired me to start folding Hydrangeas again. As usual, I did not just want to fold the design, but I also wrote up a small article that should help you along, in case you would like to fold this design as well. I drew the CP as well, which should really help you going. The full article is here: origamitutorials.com/origami-miniature-high-density-hydra...