July 29, 2013

Miniatures Monday: Flea Market Dollhouse

Great find this past weekend. This was sold as a birdhouse, but put a stained glass window in the hole and I see a half scale dollhouse!  And lucky me, the back is in held in with screws. I thought we'd have to cut a hole in the back. And it has glass or plexiglass windows. A great find!




July 22, 2013

Miniatures Monday: Miniature Perfumes

It's been a little bit since I posted any new minis, what with being busy with the soon-release of my book, GIRL Z: My Life as a Teenage Zombie (Aug, 1! but you can pre-order - see links at zombie book page.)

In the meantime, I am working on other writing projects and yes I am doing some minis, too. Here are a few new perfume displays I made for the Ladies Shoppes I'm working on. (See bookshelves with links to some other projects I made.)  Some of the boxes are kits from Heirlooms by Susan.








July 15, 2013

Dark Discoveries Magazine

 Great new mag I just got in the mail - Dark Discoveries from Journalstone Publishing. Can't wait to check it out!

 Issue #23 has an interview with Jonathan Maberry and some great short fiction to read!


* See table of contents

* Submissions  open Oct. 1 (Oct-June)  - pays 5 cents word.

June 10, 2013

Miniatures Monday: New ladies shop bookshelves

Here are the bookshelves I just finished decorating for the larger room of the two-part ladies' shop. The shelves will hold purses, hats and probably perfumes. I really like how these came out. The bottom gold scrapbook paper had glitter-like dots in a design.






This is the larger room box, which is built but not decorated yet.







Other shop items from previous posts:
* See mini lipstick stand
 * Smaller roombox for shoes, etc.  - Before pic
* Victorian cabinet - Mini Perfumes 

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June 02, 2013

New AIM Miniatures Magazine #46

New free issue of the Artisans in Miniature (AIM) Magazine #46 celebrating shopkeepers. Download here.

 * Includes some great how-to projects!

* Make a vanity train case
* Medical printie labels by Jean Day
* Make 1/4" inch or half-scale poppies
* Cute summer dress pattern to make four summer dresses for a 4" tall doll by Kathi Mendenhall

* A pic of my finished half-scale hutch is on pg. 69


May 29, 2013

Miniatures in A to Z Blog Challenge Magazine

Something a bit different:

My blog post during the A to Z blog challenge (D is for Miniature Dresses) is included in a neat online magazine, The Woven Tale Press.

 Fun way to peruse a variety of different topics. Check it out!

May 24, 2013

New Zombie story, "Staying Alive"

Check out my take on surviving in city vs. country during a zombie attack in "Staying Alive: City vs. Country" over at the New Zombie-Fiction blog.

May 21, 2013

Another miniatures project for the Ladies' Shoppe - mini lipsticks

Thought I'd posted this here too... Thought  this came out really neat. Fiddly but worth trying. Going to do another with a different graphic... Isn't that cool? Something for a table in the ladies' shoppe...




May 20, 2013

Miniatures Monday, New Ladies Shop in Progress - Preview

Wanted to share a quick preview pic of the miniature Ladies' Shoppe I'm setting up. This is the smaller roombox. I have a larger one which will hold more items as well.

The two large cabinets in back are - ta-da! - thimble cabinets!! Been saving them and thought they'd look perfect painted white and filled with shoes and shoe boxes. I have another one to use for potion bottles in a wizard room I have to finish. 

Just was setting up this room to see what fits. The space on the right wall will have mirrors and a hanging rack with dresses.

It'll be neat to see the before and after photos once everything is painted and decorated. I got this box decorated from the flea market for -- $5. All it needed was a top molding and I have to put electric in yet.  (click for larger pic)




Why My Love Life Sucks, The Legend of Gilbert the Fixer - it takes a geek to be a hero




Today author Shevi Arnold talks about her book Why My Love Life Sucks (The Legend of Gilbert the Fixer)

Blurb-


Seventeen-year-old Gilbert Garfinkle is the ultimate tech geek. He likes to take apart, figure out, and fix things, and he dreams of someday fixing the world. But now his own life has been taken apart by the one thing he'll never be able to figure out. Her name is Amber, and she's a gorgeous girl with a killer smile who wants to turn him into her platonic BFF--literally forever! It's the ultimate geek's ultimate nightmare, and it leaves Gilbert asking life's ultimate question: "Why me?"  


Why My Love Life Sucks (The Legend of Gilbert the Fixer) is a funny novel about geeks, girls, gadgets, vampires, and the start of a most unlikely friendship. It's the first book in The Legend of Gilbert the Fixer, the series that proves it takes the ultimate geek to be the ultimate hero.

Meet Shevi Arnold:

When I was little, I'd take them apart and analyze them, kind of like what Gilbert Garfinkle--the hero of Why My Love Life Sucks--does with electronics. This continued into my college years, when I majored in English Literature and Theater Studies.

For twelve years I worked in magazines and newspapers as an editorial cartoonist, illustrator, editor, arts-and-entertainment writer (specializing in children's entertainment and, of course, comedy), and a consumer columnist.

My last job was at the Jerusalem Post, but I had to quit when my family decided to move to New Jersey to pursue better education options for my autistic son.

This was in February 2001. Since then I've written 40 picture books and seven novels for kids and teens, four of which I've indie published. I was an ABNA quarterfinalist with Why My Love Life Sucks, and I won third place in SmartWriter's Write It Now contest in the the YA category (which was judged by Alex Flinn, the author of Beastly) for my romantic, YA ghost story, Ride of Your Life.


* Check out the Next Stop on the tour at LM Preston's Ramblings

Links:

* Read an excerpt free @ Freado



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