Miniature Quick Artwork Frames

 Well, this one is just fun!  Jumping right to it...  I needed a few (but turned out with many!) framed pieces for my apothecary.  I hopped on my pc and looked up some beautiful artwork.  I copied and pasted several beautiful pictures and medical advertisements and printed them out.  Next, I always spray my prints with a clear coat to keep the colors from bleeding.  

Next, I cut out two pieces of chip board, or cardboard, or cereal boxes, leaving enough room around the picture to create a decorative frame.  I glued the two pieces together then plugged in my glue gun.  I traced the picture on the top of the chip board to let me know where to use the hot glue.  Then I got to work dabbing hot glue while also using beads and such on a few.  This is the fun part.

After this fun, it's time to put on a basecoat of paint.  And once that is dry, I love to use my metallic paints as a topcoat.  Sometimes being a tad sparse in areas allowing the bottom color to show through.  When I finished painting, and the paint was dry I used Mod Podge to glue down the pictures.

And for the finishing touch, I use Mod Podge Dimensional Magic on top of the picture.  This creates an almost glass like finish.  I think it's beautiful!

These are almost too fun!  So easy and fun and quite realistic.  

I've blogged about these frames before.  You can find that post HERE

Thank you so much for stopping by!  

XoXo ~Laurie

Miniature Apothecary Cabinet

 Hi Mini Friends!  Today I am sharing an apothecary cabinet that I made from two pieces of Dollar Tree dollhouse furniture that I've had for a while.  In fact, I'm not even sure if the store sells these items anymore.  I've been told that they don't.  I found these two pieces in my stash and decided to put them together.  

I started by popping the tall dresser into the microwave for a few second to warm the glue.  This allows me to gently take the piece apart.  I also did this to the shorter piece to take the knobs off of the drawers.  I removed the bottom and front pieces from the tall dresser and saved the front part of the bottom for the top.  That sounded confusing :)  Let me just show you...

First, I'm showing the finished product.  Isn't she lovely??!!

Now, here are the two pieces.

I added two shelves to the inside of the cabinet using scrap balsa wood.  Also, here is where I added the bottom front decorative piece to the top to give it a little detail.

Below is the bottom of the cabinet minus the drawer knobs.

I cut pieces of wood to look like little drawer fronts and used my Dremel to give the depth.

This was my first time using this tool with miniatures and I found that it was pretty fun but also really easy.  I normally use a fingernail file for everything.  This tool made it really quick too.

Here are the pieces glued together with the new drawer fronts.

Then I painted it all black.  After this was dry, I gave it a little buffing of the edges with a fingernail file to knock off a little paint and give it a worn, used and aged look.

I found some vintage apothecary drawer labels online.  I shrunk them on my computer and printed them out.  I also used gold beads and glued a black rhinestone on the front of each bead to hide the hole in the bead.

I added a little "moss" in a few areas on the cabinet.  My moss is just sawdust tinted with a little paint.

And waalaa!  She is finished!

I hope you enjoyed this cabinet!  Thanks for stopping by!

XoXo ~Laurie

Miniature Sewing Machine Drawers

 Hello Mini Friends!  This is a really simple little project made to look like an old sewing machine drawer filled with sewing goodies!  Made with a popsicle stick, old fabrics, and whatever you would like to fill them with.  I made a few tiny pin cushion tomatoes from clay, some spools of thread from a cut up Q-tip, buttons from tiny sequins, and a faux pair of scissors from bra hooks.  They were so fun to make!

I measured and cut the popsicle sticks at 1 3/4 inch pieces - three of those.  I tried to cut the smaller end pieces from the stick, but my scissors kept busting the piece.  So, I wound up using a scrap piece of balsa wood and cut two pieces at 1/2 inch for the ends.

I used my trusty Elmer's wood glue.

I did file the ends down using a fingernail file.

These are pieces of an old bracelet, an eye hook and a sewing pin for a drawer pulls.

I did paint the light blue pin tip with a darker color to match.

The bra hooks - "scissors" I simply straightened out the hook part with my small plyers.

And these are the tomatoes before I painted them (the green leaves are not glued on yet).  The button cards are just cardstock and gel pen.  Gathering the contents was fun!

I dampened each piece of fabric with watered down mod podge and placed them.  After they dried I used a tiny bit of wood glue on the side of the box to hold the pieces in place.

Such a simple and fun winter project!

Thanks for stopping by!  Feel free to share the link in my pictures to Pinterest!

XOXO ~Laurie

Miniature Witchy Potion Jars

 Hello Friends!  Lately I have enjoyed repurposing glass jars into potion jars for Valentine's Day and Easter.  And, of course, Halloween.  I spied some of my tiny dollhouse glass jars and thought I'd give it a go at making them just like my life-sized ones.  

You simply glue crinkled tissue paper onto the jars and let them dry.  Then, finish them up by painting them and highlighting the wrinkles with paint.  I preferred making the labels for these with newspaper as I like the way it looks when torn.  

I finished them up by gluing on green tinted sawdust for moss.  I think they turned out very well and have inspired me to make a room for them to sit on a shelf.  

Thanks for stopping by today!  Enjoy!

XOXO ~Laurie