Happy Birthday to Me!

 It's official! Today is my birthday!

Since this is so cute, I'll share it again! Guess I'll have some mini cake (okay a few!) and watch some Netflix while I work on a few new - and in-progress miniatures! Hopefully I'll have a few new things to show next week!

Thanks again for visiting!

Miniatures Advent Calendars & Printies

(Art: pixabay free license)

I keep coming across things and can't keep track, so I'm listing them here as I find them.

Online Advent Calendars to Open:

🎀 Melvin's Miniatures Free Christmas Minis

🎀 MicDrop Miniatures 12 Days of Christmas Advent Calendar

🎀Miniatures.com 12 Days of MiniMas

Other Freebie Holiday Printables:

🎀 Assorted printables: Book covers, vintage Christmas theatre, wrapping paper, Queen Mary's Dollhouse postcards

🎀 Christmas boxes and paper tree printable

🎀 Christmas boxes (right click to save)

 🎀 Christmas cards

🎀 Christmas printables at Pinterest (search for others)

 🎀 Gingerbread house boxes (shrink to smaller size)

🎀 More Christmas boxes (shrink to smaller size)

🎀 Miniature Christmas ornament box printable

🎀 Pretty Christmas wrapping paper and borders

🎀 SmallStuff printable Christmas cards (& other items)

🎀 TreeFeathers assorted Christmas printables, boxes, wrapping paper, etc.

🎀 That should keep you busy! Have Fun!! 🎀

   

Birthday & Advent Calendar Miniatures

The "birthday" cake shop

Had some pre-birthday fun with good friend Gigi. This year was a first as we also decided to make each other a miniatures-filled advent calendar. What a fun idea!

First I have to share the so-cute little scene (above) that she made for me from a kit. These are so cute (and she has more patience than me in working in this size.) The little scene is 4.5" high.

She also gave me two of these really cool Tudor-inspired wood benches she made from a kit (country benches kit, The Daisy House), and I made another two. They will go in a Tudor-flavored loft house I'll be working on soon. I have a great batch of Tudor-Medieval style food I got years ago in swaps that I've been saving to eventually do this kind of project. It's one of the very few 1" scale projects I'll be doing.

The adorable Raggedy Ann box is part of the Advent Calendar we are exchanging with each other for the first time this year. Fun thinking what to make and what to fill it with! 

The box is actually a trunk she made from a Dragonfly Intl. kit. I have admired the kit, but never got around to buying one. Sooo cute! And while 1" scale, I'm still going to put it in the half-scale Raggedy Ann house (to be finished at some point.) The photo shows it up lighter, but here's the inside: So cute and so detailed!

My photos are not too great, but I admit I'm too lazy to do the right set-up for the lighting. ha! Bear with me!

We opened the calendar days 1-4 since our get together was on Day 4. The funny thing was she had mixed up the dated boxes, something I didn't expect when I opened it! For some reason, I thought they'd be in order! So I had to re-shuffle my dated boxes around for her  too. ha!

She also gave me these teensy paper Halloween houses for the fireplace mantel and these really cute Halloween decorated plate shelves.

We'll be opening individual days on our own and then are getting together again two times before Christmas. It's always fun as it forces me to get some things done. ha!

This week I worked on a small kit I found at Goodwill of all places (Hobby Lobby Delightful Den kit). 

The bookcase, which I have to repaint, is about 3.5" high. I remade what was an odd-sized loveseat to turn it into a smaller chunky chair. I loved this print I found and thought it came out pretty well. I'm hoping both fit in the Lavender cottage or another house. I usually end up bashing these kits and taking out pieces to use in other projects instead of building the actual room.

Another holiday-themed project I'm working on is a half-scale Christmas house. I found one of these smaller plastic kid's toy houses and for $1.99 I couldn't pass it up! It'll work out well as a Christmas house since I didn't have a half-scale scene set up. So we'll see how far I get on it. I'm repainting it now and doing some wallpapering. I'll show the progress soon. 

That's it for the moment! Stay tuned for more Christmas miniatures and projects! Thanks again for visiting!

Miniature Christmas Gingerbread Houses

Wow, December already??? 'Tis the Season!

Well, it's festive time!  This was a fun holiday project and I'm thrilled with the results! Of course I decided to do a partial Halloween theme on my mini house!  (*Click photos for full size.)

As I shared in an earlier post, (scroll down at the link), I got these cute little Gingerbread House kits at AlphaStamps.

The idea was for me and friend Gigi to decorate them as part of our Christmas campground... then she found a few other tiny resin houses and another table had to be added: a Gingerbread House Decorating Contest!

Aren't they cute??

These were so fun to do! Mine (right) is Halloween-themed, of course! Used some tiny "peppermint" candy slices cut in half for the roof and other areas, plus decorated a small tree. Used puff paint and glitter for "snow," plus added some cotton fuzz with glitter on the base.

The cool part! She had these teensy fairy light balls so the insides can be lit! 

Light on (before I finished decorating.)

Here's a photo of the little lights at Walmart, but you can find them much cheaper on places like Temu and AliExpress. The balls have an LED light with three batteries. You take out and replace a tiny plastic tab to turn them on and off. 

A fun, satisfying little project!

* Thanks again for visiting! Come back soon for more holiday minis and stuff!