I made a little table for the studio out of coffee stirrers
Cut the wooden sticks to size and glue them together in the glue tray
Once the table is assembled, you can stain or paint it
On this blog, you’ll find everything about dollhouses and miniatures. Op dit blog vind je alles over poppenhuizen en miniaturen.
I made a little table for the studio out of coffee stirrers
Cut the wooden sticks to size and glue them together in the glue tray
Once the table is assembled, you can stain or paint it
I’m going to make a studio in a display box and started by making the painter’s easel
You’ll need: wooden stirrers, a ruler, scissors or a sharp knife,
glue, paint, and a small bead
Paint or stain the wooden stirrers in your desired color
Start by placing two full stirrers at an angle, cut the connecting pieces to size,
and glue them in place
Then cut one stirrer straight across to the right size for the center piece
Make small holes in it about every 3 mm (by piercing or drilling) and glue it in place
Cut three sticks to the same length and glue them together in a U shape,
this will hold the painting
Cut two small pieces and glue them together
Attach them to the top of the middle stirrer and glue a bead on top
Finally, splatter or dab some paint on it
They’re traditional Dutch ice skates
Making the skates was part of a workshop by Sylvia de Groot
Because I ran out of time that day, I finished them at home
I spent hours filing and sanding to get the right shape, but I’m happy with the result
Around 1875, the Frisian “doorloper” was developed from the
traditional wooden skates of the time
By around 1900, the Frisian doorloper started to become popular
A Frisian “doorloper” is a wooden skate with a single blade
that’s tied underneath the shoe
Although all wooden skates are often called Frisian doorlopers,
the true Frisian doorloper is a skate in which the blade runs all the way to the heel
Below you can see the miniature skates placed on top of my full-size Frisian doorlopers
I was able to pick up a little shop for free
It’s made of wood and in 1:8 scale, so it’s perfect for my grandchildren to play with
It needs a lot of sanding because it’s covered in thick blobs of filler
This is how the scale looked before, and this is how it turned out
I glued the little tray onto the scale and painted it silver and
I also resized and attached the Berkel scale labels
These miniatures are in the right scale and actually came from my old little shop
It’s lovely that, almost 60 years later, my grandchildren will be playing with them
I made a wheelbarrow from a kit
For now, I’ve put a rose in it, but I’m planning to make a pink hydrangea
to fill the wheelbarrow with later
For the 1960s living room I still plan to make, I’ve made a little magazine rack
Now I just need to make some miniature newspapers to go with it
Since we can no longer meet monthly with the dollhouse club
because of the coronavirus crisis, we received a surprise package in the mail
I had to think for a bit about what to do with the materials,
and this is what I came up with
I made a tray out of the little wooden stick and the piece of cardboard
I painted the chicks, rabbit, and rooster, and glued the chicks onto the tray
I put a small foam ball inside the flowerpots and glued the greenery onto it
Then I glued the rabbit and rooster onto cocktail sticks
and inserted them into the foam ball
I threaded beads onto a piece of wire and placed the
little candles into the holes of a large button
Then I glued the greenery around it and added the bead garland as decoration
Made a 1:12 scale tray from three wooden coffee stirrers
It’s amazing how you can create such a cute miniature with so little material!
A few months ago, I bought a gypsy caravan kit from Iriginals
They design and make all their kits themselves
Last month, I also bought the matching furniture set,
and this past week I finally started putting it all together
I’ve now reached the point where I can start applying the primer
With my first kit, I painted everything before assembling it,
but that made it difficult to fit the pieces together properly,
so now I paint after building instead