Trash to treasure miniatures

Make dollhouse items from items around the house.

I absolutely love this idea for fridge door shelves! Or they would even work well for a shower shelf for shampoo, etc. It's something that I...

In the corner of my studio is a basket of random odds & ends with no home, like a junk drawer. While cleaning this morning, I decided that today's challenge will be to use some of that junk to make miniature things for a doll house sized living room (I love anything miniature). The couch is actually from a doll house, and the little dog is a Monopoly piece. Putting the miniatures together was ridiculously easy and made a bit more room in my junk basket. Here's what I used: Four robin's egg…

diy miniature lamps using lids and game pieces I keep a collection of toothpaste caps and cosmetic lids for making my mini lamps. Also, a while back I purchased a bag full of random game pieces for $2 at a 2nd hand shop that are great for mini lamps as well. diy miniature lamps I added little beads on top of the lids. diy miniature modern lamp diy miniature lamp I'm pretty happy with the results. I've also considered, but haven't tried yet, putting washi tape on the lids? Or maybe modge…

I absolutely love this idea for fridge door shelves! Or they would even work well for a shower shelf for shampoo, etc. It's something that I think makes a fridge more realistic! These are made from the caps of disposable razors! The problem is finding the right disposable razor that has the right cap. Most of them these days are slide from the side caps (which definitely don't work). These particular ones are from the Laser Easy 3 razors shown below that I bought at Dollarama. Of an entire…

The most important source of inspiration for me, at the early stages of my miniature making, and until today, has been the Swedish miniatu...

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.

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