Remember the Philadelphia Phillies Baseball Bat Cake I made last year? This cake was for Tracy, lady who ordered the Phillies cake for her husband last year. Her husband called me about the cake for his wife.
Make a miniature mattress for your dollhouse or room box.
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Siguiendo con el calendario de adviento del LMN hoy me toca de nuevo a mi. Quería hacer un banquito para la cocina de la casa Estoril ...
Preparing and hanging doors is a tricky business. To get a real aged look you have to create wear and tear. Lightly sand the surface and then smudge it very lightly with grey chalk pastel. Be sure to smudge only where ordinary wear and tear would be, such as around the door handle. To add more realism I made a faux door catch by cutting an indent on one door (above) and gluing a small brass square on the other (below). I hung the door using hinges rather than using a pin (which is easier). This required carefully cutting in where the hinges will go. I superglued the hinges on, and then drilled little holes for the nails. This makes it much easier than trying to nail it when it is not fixed in place. Also, be sure to drill the holes and glue in the nails rather than nailing them in with a hammer. If you nail them in the chances are the delicate wood of your door will split. It is important to ensure your hinges are perfectly lined up and horizontal, otherwise the door will not open or the hinges will break when you open it. The result is pleasing.
I thought I would show you how to make a simple interior door and jamb from mat board. I took the opening measurement from the Hobby Builder's catalog so this door is standard for today's dollhouses. Once you have learned the method you can make doors of different dimensions. I have bought lots of books from Dover Publishers.com. This book is very good for doors and windows. It doesn't give measurements but the ideas are great. Some examples of the pages. I will begin with the jamb or the frame in which the door sets. The Hobby Builder's catalog listed the opening as 3" wide, 7" high and 3/8" deep. Cut strips of mat board 3/8" wide. Cut at least 40". I am going to be using yellow carpenter's glue through out this tutorial. Cut 4 pieces of the mat board 7" long, that's in the picture above. Glue two pieces together and glue another two pieces together. You now have two pieces 7" long that are double thickness of mat board. Cut from the mat board 3 pieces 2 3/4" long. Glue two of these pieces together. Leave the third piece for later. Cut 1/8" wide strips from mat board, at least 20". Measure and mark on the doubled strips of mat board the center, 3/16" from either side. Glue the 1/8" wide strip along the line. There will be 3/16" left on one side. This is called the "stop". It stops the door so it only swings one way. Here are the three pieces of the jamb with the stop glued on. There are two sides and one top. Pay attention to how I have this laid out. With your craft knife cut off 1/8" of the stop at the top of one side. Do the same thing with the other side. This is what the top of the side should look like after you've made the cut. I am holding the top of the jamb in my hand. The side in on the table. The top fits down onto the side. The stop should line up all around. I have the sides glued to the top. Do you see that the sides are covering the ends of the top? Look at the stop, it is lined up all around. Now, for the third piece of 3/8" wide mat board you set aside earlier, this is the bottom of the jamb or threshold. Measure and mark the center, then mark 1/8" away from that. Use your craft knife to cut on the marks. Cut 1/16" deep. This is the threshold with the cuts made. Use 220 grit sand paper to round off the long edges of the threshold. Glue the threshold to the bottom of the jamb. The stop is in the openings you cut out. Showing another view of the threshold. Please let this dry. I measured the inside of the jamb for the measurement of the door. I left a little play, that's carpenter talk for extra space between the door and jamb. This measurement is 2 11/16" x 6 3/4". Cut this from mat board. This is my cut sheet. I've drawn the door in 1 inch scale and then measured what I need to cut. You will notice I've got my 3/8" measurements together then I've got an oddball 3/4" measurement and then the 9/16" measurements are together. If you are using a table saw or mat cutting system this makes it easy to follow. Set the width once and make those cuts and move onto the next one. You will have all your strips cut to width. All you will have to do is measure for the length and cut. I've got my 3/8" strips cut. I've cut 4 of the 3/8" strips 6 3/4" long and glued them along the sides of the door. I've done this to both sides of the door. Although I have the length written down I usually just dry fit and mark with a pencil where I need to cut for length. I will do this for the rest of the door, both sides. I use my square and craft knife to cut the strips to length. I've got a 3/8" strip at the top, 3/4" strip in the lower middle and a 9/16" strip at the bottom. I do this for both sides. Just a word here, this would make a fine door right now if you want. I am dry fitting and marking for the center pieces, they are from 3/8" strips. I've got the center strips glued in, both sides. I want to show you something. Do you see the two pencil marks on the top strip? I am measuring for the center. This is an old carpenter's trick, the old carpenter being my husband, HA! You don't have to divide fractions. I'm using a scrap of mat board. Lay your ruler down, it's length is between the 1/16 and 1/8 inch marks. Make a pencil mark at what looks to be over half to you. Remember the measurement, mine is 1 11/16". I am measuring from the left side. Now, I've rotated the mat board and I am measuring from the other side, 1 11/16". I've made a pencil mark. You should be able the "eye" the center without measuring. Use 220 grit sand paper to round off the square edges of the mat board. Don't do the outside edges of the door just the inside of the rectangles you made with the strips. Just a note here, this makes a fine door right now. To imitate the raised panels we will cut from the 9/16" wide strips of mat board 4 pieces 3 1/4" long and 4 pieces 1 1/4" long. Use 220 grit sand paper to round off all 4 sides of these pieces. After you have rounded off the edges glue these pieces into the center of the rectangles of the door, both sides. I've got the door just setting in the jamb. I am using scrap mat board from a framer. Got a good buy on some large pieces for $3.00 and $5.00 a piece. They were discontinued colors. Last time I bought a piece from Michael's it was $15.00! Going to make the trim for the jamb. Cut from mat board a few pieces, enough for both sides of the door, a fat 1/8" wide and 5/16" wide. Glue the fat 1/8" strip to one side of the 5/16" strip. Use 220 grit sand paper to round off the the edges of the strips. I use The Chopper for my mitres. I've made the first cut. I have no trick for you in cutting mitres, I am sorry. It's all in the measuring, measure twice, cut once. Glue the trim onto the jamb, on the outside piece of mat board. Leave the inside piece showing, that's called the reveal. That's why I doubled the mat board on the jamb so we would have something to glue to, even if it is a single piece of 1/16" thick piece of mat board. The jamb is going to be glued into a door opening. I have the trim glued on. Cut two of everything so you have trim for the other side of the door jamb. You will put that on after you have the door and jamb in the opening. I used 180 grit sand paper to sand round one side of the door. This makes it easier for the door to swing with a pin hinge. The rounded side is the side that will have the pin hinge. That's all I use. I haven't gotten to putting real hinges on, yet. I have a small stash of these short thick brass pins, I don't know where I got them from. You can use a straight pin or dollhouse nails for the hinge. Putting the pins in is a little tricky. Place the door into the jamb and mark on the door and jamb, have the marks line up. You want to be 3 /32" from the edge of the door. Your door is 3/16" thick, you want to have the pin in the middle of that. Transfer the 3/32" mark to the top and bottom of the jamb and drill using a tiny drill bit. You don't have to drill into the door, only through the top and bottom of the jamb. The pin will go into the door pretty easily. Insert your pins. Don't worry if you don't succeed on the first try. If you make too many attempts just put glue in the holes, let dry and try again tomorrow. Tigger's on my table. I hope you try this out. I had this made in a couple of hours, that beats waiting for it being shipped. Have fun, Expand on it, Make it better . . . . . Just Keep Making Minis! TTUL Kris P.S. I added a picture showing one of the pins in the bottom of the jamb or threshold. A pin goes in the top of the jamb, too. The pins are inserted into the side of the door that you rounded off with sand paper. I hope this helps a little more.
I’m so excited to be a part of Shari Butler’s blog tour for her upcoming line of fabric In The Meadow for Sweet Bee Designs!! This fabric has such a fresh and whimsical feel – it…
Depuis longtemps j'avais envie de lierre dans mes corbeilles de fleurs. J'ai du mal à bien découper, et je suis contente de cette petite perforatrice : J'ai fait du lierre panaché : peinture jaune très pâle et partie verte au feutre. L'urne est faite en pâte à modeler séchant à l'air, sur un support de rondelles, cure-dent et perle. Et avec des muscaris en micro-billes peintes, nettement plus fines que celles de mes premiers muscaris.
Ameisen sind eigentlich nützliche Tiere, können Hobbygärtnern aber das Leben schwer machen. So vertreiben und bekämpfen Sie die lästigen Insekten.
To be printed on a letter sized paper
Even though I'm an e-reader, I love the feel of physical books and having them around my house. My dollhouse is no exception, and I...
Hello everyone! As some of you may know, we had a really huge cyclone in Fiji in February. (Category 5 Tropical Cyclone Winston.) It was pretty intense and a large number of people lost their houses. We were fine at our place though, we hardly had any damage, just some leaking and a few inches of flooding from the bucket loads of rain. My dollhouse cottage was fine too. I wrapped in in a large black plastic rubbish bag and nestled it safely in my wardrobe. This is one of the palm trees outside our house being blown around. I managed to snap this photo before the cyclone got to its worst. After the cyclone, power was out everywhere. It was out at our place for two weeks. But we were lucky because we still had water. I was unable to continue work on my novel as I couldn't charge my laptop, so I had lots of time to work on my dollhouse cottage. I got right into making the spiral staircase. I have to thank Mara who writes the dollhouse miniature blog Pequeneces. Thanks Mara! She created a wonderful tutorial on how to make a spiral staircase in 1:12 scale and I used a lot of her ideas to help me make this staircase. To see Mara's tutorial, click here. Maria makes lots of lovely creations in miniature and she very kindly explains all her processes. This shows when I have stuck all the bits together and am nearly finished threading all the steps onto the kebab stick. I tested the stairs in a few different positions. You can see in this one that the hole in the ceiling doesn't match up with the position of the stairs. This is the reason I hadn't put the floorboards in yet—just incase I wanted to make changes later. This is the stairs matching up with the hole. I decided I liked the stairs this way best. This is what the stairs look like at the moment. I still need to make a railing and then paint them. I cut the hole in the ceiling bigger so that I could align the stairs in the way I liked best. Then I glued down the popsicle sticks for the floorboards. And made a nice frame around the hole. This is what the interior looks like at the moment. I will do the railing and painting for the stairs later. I moved on to adding the other bit to the sides of the door to cover the join and to make the fretwork recessed. As you can see, I don't have any small clamps in Fiji, so I make do with some wooden clothes pegs. Here is the little roof over the door nearly finished—now it just needs tiles. So this is where the cottage is up to now, inside and out. Have a lovely day! xo Amy
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We have talked about making miniatures from trash to treasure projects before, but it got a bit to long. So today we are starting part 2.
DIY some cute Vintage Paper Key Tags with Diana Dreams Factory for Graphics Fairy. Such a fun Paper Craft Project!
Master making the toy poodle first, and then the other animal designs will be a snap for you to make. Materials: - One 6mm beige pipe cleaner, ap...
In November I posted a tutorial on “ Creating a Stained Glass Look Using a Glass Slide ”. Embossing transparency film is another option to...
He encontrado este interesante tutorial para hacer plantillas para construir suelo empedrado para las peanas o para un diorama.
Otin inspiraatiota jälleen Lea Frisonin ihanasta kirjasta Le Grand Livre de la Maison Miniature. Verholauta on pahvia, päällä puulista ja metallikoriste sekä akryylimaalia. Verhot odottavat styroksilla tärkkikäsittelyä. Getting inspired by Lea Frisoni's wonderful book again I made pelmet from stiff card which I painted and decorated. Folded fabric is waiting getting sprayed with starch. Alla verhot valmiina musiikkihuoneen ikkunoissa. Olen tyytyväinen kankaaseen, toivottavasti löydän sitä lisää kahteen muuhunkin musiikkihuoneen ikkunaan nukkekodin etuseinässä. Almost done. I have run out of this cotton fabric and there are two more windows to dress...
I’ve stumbled onto a surprising source of miniature textiles. Here goes: thrifted (or about to be donated) clothing. Recently, I found a men’s dress shirt that I just knew was going to become dollhouse bedding.
Not only would these look great on any wall but they would make great gifts to close family members. You could do so much with a silhouette image like card making, photo prints, scrapbooking, wall …
Sofa Rose privé suite. In deze zelf gemaakte sofa, kon ik mijn zelf geprinte stof gebruiken. ...
