Happy Miniatures New Year!
Can't believe it! Where did 2024 go???
At the end of the year, I like to share and link the projects I've finished. It's a good way to see what I've actually done for the year! haa!
January:
I was finishing up the trim and other things on the half-scale Park Avenue Mansion. * Here's the tour part 1, with link to part 2. (Yes, that's a gargoyle on the roof!)
February:
The real fun of working on the mansion was doing something different - making a diner in the bottom floor of the house. I'd always wanted to do a diner so this was fun making one in half-scale. * Here's the finished diner tour.
March - April - May:
Besides working on flowers for the mansion in March, I shared a bunch of my miniatures projects for the A to Z Blog Challenge in April. (See archives list in left column for posts.)
May - June:
I began working on a Tiki Bar in a former photo box. See the finished project in June. I loved doing this one. The drinks and food were a lot of fun to make!
July:
It was back to making Halloween items for the Van Buren dollhouse I finally got back to finishing. * Tour the finished Halloween Van Buren Dollhouse. Part 1 - Part 2.
August:
Between finishing the Halloween house, I got it in my mind to do an abandoned room in another former photo box I had on hand. This was fun to do as I'd seen similar rooms and thought it would be fun to "wreck" a room. I might, just might, do a small house kit I have this way eventually. It can be a lot of fun being intentionally messy!
September:
Did some early Halloween posts this month using the tag "Spooky Season." See other posts in the left column archives.
October:
Different accessories I've done - even a "haunted" garbage can. (Look for the eye!)
November:
For variety, I finished this half-scale Clematis trellis. I'd been putting it off, but the results were worth doing it! I'll be making more purple colored flowers for the latest project listed below.
I also started painting parts for the next much-smaller half-scale project, which I'm calling the Lavender Cottage. * Update: the base and first floor are assembled and glued. All windows painted. The door has to be painted next. Then there's lots of tiny trim to paint on the arches, plus the exterior walls.
Set up for Halloween.
Also worked on the camper kit, that I turned into the Coffee Camper for a Christmas Campground display at my friend's house.
December:
I did the Halloween-themed house on the right. (Of course!)
Did several Christmas projects. First, making a tiny Gingerbread House turned into a cute Gingerbread House Decorating Contest as part of the Christmas Campground.
I started repainting a toy plastic house as a Christmas house. * Finished house post to come and will be linked here.
It was fun this year opening our own Advent Calendars for a Miniature Christmas. Fun gifts like the new addition to my Halloween house lawn. (See right side.) Made different assorted items for that and for some gifts.
It was a really fun miniatures year! Here's to more creativity in 2025!
* Thanks for visiting and sharing minis all year! The best to you and more fun next year! *
