I knew it had been a long time
since I posted anything, but when I looked and realized my last post was in
2018…. Oops! I did actually start a post
last summer, but apparently never got it finished and posted. I do have to admit that I really didn’t get a
whole lot of miniature work done this past year. I had thought I would be finishing Whimsy
Street, and also completing the 1:100 scale garage that I started for my
husband’s 1:10 scale garage last year but actually neither of those ended up
happening, and the only thing I really got finished last year was a smaller
project series, called “Four Seasons” (more on that in a minute). So to get caught up in this one post I’ll try
to quickly talk about everything that should have gotten posted last year and
then a bit about what I have planned/am working on for this year.
{2019}
So, to start with, just a quick
recap of the projects that I had thought I would be finishing last year but
didn’t……
Of course my biggest
in-progress project is “Whimsy Street Shopping District”. (which you can read
about the overall plan for
here, in fact most of my posts for the past couple
years have been about various aspect of this project).
I got a good start on the bookstore, which
is the second to last shop I have to finish for it (assuming I don’t add any
other shops to the street, there have been a couple other ideas that have
popped into my head…….).
The structure is put together and the outside is done, with the exception of door and windows, I haven't gotten a whole lot done on the inside yet, but I did get the floor for the bottom story (haha no pun intended) done and the main desk/front desk put together. I had also gotten a pretty good start with making books to fill the store with, but then ended up using a bunch of them for another project, so I still have tons more of them to make (which I did anyway, but now even more lol). I had planned on making all individual books for all the shelves, but
after seeing how many I used for the other, much smaller project, I think I
might see if I can be satisfied with making rows of books (as in one piece that
are all attached to each other, with only spines glued on not whole separate
books) for some of the areas of the store where you won’t be able to see the
shelves/books quite as closely.
Even if
I do end up doing that though I will still most likely need quite a few more
individual books for places that can be seen more clearly, or where the whole
shelf won’t be full, or sitting on display tables in the middle of the shop…
stuff like that, so I expect that making books will be the most time consuming
part of what there is still to do for that shop.
I might just have to devote a whole day or
two to nothing but making minuscule books.
Once the bookstore is completed that will only leave the ice cream shop
(which I haven’t gotten too far into the detailed plans for yet, but I think will
probably not be as time consuming/labor intensive as the bookstore….).
Once all the shops are completed I will be
making an actual street for them to go on, but I think I’m going to have it so
that they
just sit on the street and are
not permanently attached.
Largely
because I don’t really have anywhere to store and/or display the entire street all together as one piece in my house and partly because while all the shops are part of this
one larger project they can also stand alone, and I might at times want to do
something with just one or just a couple of the shops separately from the
project as a whole.
The other project that I was really
excited to work on in 2019 was the 1:100 scale garage I am making to go in the
1:10 scale garage my husband is building for his RC cars.
I’m still definitely hyped for the project,
but it’s kind of on hold for now because I’ve gotten to the point that I need
him to make some more decisions/put more of his garage together before I can
really move forward with the tiny one.
You can read more about the beginnings of this project
here though.
Now for the project I actually did
do this past year, “Four Seasons”. For the sake of this post not being
massively long (or massively longer than it already is anyway haha), I’m just
going to give you an overview of the project and finished pictures and then
I’ll do a post with more details and pictures and everything for each of the
season’s separately.
This project was a
4 piece series, that started as one quick weekend project in a mini/toy grill I
got from Target, in what they used to call the dollar spot (I know it’s not
called that anymore since there’s a variety of price points there now, but I
can never remember what it’s called now lol).
I saw it and thought it would be cute to do a backyard cookout scene in
the little grill, and we were going to be dog sitting for my parents for the
weekend coming up soon so I thought it would be a good project to bring with me
to work on at their house, that I could get finished in the one weekend and
wouldn’t require bringing but so much stuff with me.
Which was all completely true, but of course
me being me, then I see a little picnic basket at ACMoore, and have to do a
quick little picnic scene in that, which I end up deciding I should make a
miniature version of a party we had a few years ago in our yard, which was a
fall theme, so then I realize I’ve already got summer and fall, so now of
course I have to come up with something for winter and spring to go with
them……
I do have to say, most of them
were still relatively quickly finished (spring ended up taking the longest, but
still probably could have been accomplished in a weekend if I really put the
effort into it…), and relatively inexpensive (Which was also one of the goals
of the original idea).
I did buy a few
things for them, but tried not to buy too much, and just being such small
projects there wasn’t really that much that I even could have needed to buy for
them anyway.
So, the series ended up
being “Winter: Snow Tubing and S’mores”, “Spring: Garden Tea Party”, “Summer:
Backyard Cookout”, and “Autumn: 'Welcome Fall' Picnic”. As I said, I will do
posts for each piece separately with more detail and more pictures and all the
stuff I would normally post about projects.
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| "Four Seasons": a series |
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| "Winter: Snow Tubing And S'mores" |
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| "Spring: Garden Tea Party" |
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| "Summer: Backyard Cookout" |
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| "Autumn: 'Welcome Fall' Picnic" |
{2020}
This year I do plan on working
towards hopefully finishing Whimsy Street, and depending on what my husband
gets done on his 1:10 scale garage working on and/or finishing the 1:100 scale
garage, so far I have yet to pull either of those projects back out
though. The early part of this year has
seemed to fly by, and while I should have plenty of time to be working on
miniatures right now, while we are all staying home and social distancing/quarantining
during the COVID-19 pandemic (which I’ll be honest is not something I ever
expected to be saying, what a year we’ve all, as a nation and as a world, had
so far this year!), I have been trying to use all this extra time at home to
get some projects done in my real life house that have been getting pushed off
for a while. I do have another quick
projects series that I’ll be doing this year, although to be honest I am behind
on working on that project at this point.
The idea is a series of 1:48 scale front doors, one for each month of
the year, to be displayed together once they are all completed. My plan was to take one weekend each month
and do that month’s door and have the year done by December (I actually came up
with/started on this sometime between Christmas and New Years, so the December
door I started working on then…. Granted its
not done yet…..). While I don’t have
any of the doors finished yet, they are mostly planned out and I should be able
to catch up through April if I just devote a day or two to it sometimes during
this quarantine, and then be back on track for doing one a month. Again, I will be posting more about these
doors as I work on them, and if nothing else that should make sure I post to
the blog at least once a month… haha….
Other than the doors project and finishing up Whimsy Street and possibly
the garage, I’m not really planning on doing any other miniatures this year (as of right now anyway...),
other than possibly as presents for people, especially for Christmas. And I am going to try to get as much done on
projects as I can in the next few weeks and then over the summer, because Fall
is looking to be busy with traveling (assuming everything is back to normal and
under control by then) with not only at least one weekend trip that was already
planned for the fall, but also rescheduling 2 trips that had to be postponed
from this spring….
I hope everyone is well and safe in
these times, and I would love to see or hear about what projects (miniature or
otherwise) you are working on while staying home this spring in the comments!
So, to start with, just a quick
recap of the projects that I had thought I would be finishing last year but
didn’t…… Of course my biggest
in-progress project is “Whimsy Street Shopping District”. (which you can read
about the overall plan for here, in fact most of my posts for the past couple
years have been about various aspect of this project). I got a good start on the bookstore, which
is the second to last shop I have to finish for it (assuming I don’t add any
other shops to the street, there have been a couple other ideas that have
popped into my head…….). The structure is put together and the outside is done, with the exception of door and windows, I haven't gotten a whole lot done on the inside yet, but I did get the floor for the bottom story (haha no pun intended) done and the main desk/front desk put together. I had also gotten a pretty good start with making books to fill the store with, but then ended up using a bunch of them for another project, so I still have tons more of them to make (which I did anyway, but now even more lol). I had planned on making all individual books for all the shelves, but
after seeing how many I used for the other, much smaller project, I think I
might see if I can be satisfied with making rows of books (as in one piece that
are all attached to each other, with only spines glued on not whole separate
books) for some of the areas of the store where you won’t be able to see the
shelves/books quite as closely. Even if
I do end up doing that though I will still most likely need quite a few more
individual books for places that can be seen more clearly, or where the whole
shelf won’t be full, or sitting on display tables in the middle of the shop…
stuff like that, so I expect that making books will be the most time consuming
part of what there is still to do for that shop. I might just have to devote a whole day or
two to nothing but making minuscule books.
Once the bookstore is completed that will only leave the ice cream shop
(which I haven’t gotten too far into the detailed plans for yet, but I think will
probably not be as time consuming/labor intensive as the bookstore….). Once all the shops are completed I will be
making an actual street for them to go on, but I think I’m going to have it so
that they just sit on the street and are
not permanently attached. Largely
because I don’t really have anywhere to store and/or display the entire street all together as one piece in my house and partly because while all the shops are part of this
one larger project they can also stand alone, and I might at times want to do
something with just one or just a couple of the shops separately from the
project as a whole.
The other project that I was really
excited to work on in 2019 was the 1:100 scale garage I am making to go in the
1:10 scale garage my husband is building for his RC cars. I’m still definitely hyped for the project,
but it’s kind of on hold for now because I’ve gotten to the point that I need
him to make some more decisions/put more of his garage together before I can
really move forward with the tiny one.
You can read more about the beginnings of this project here though.
Now for the project I actually did
do this past year, “Four Seasons”. For the sake of this post not being
massively long (or massively longer than it already is anyway haha), I’m just
going to give you an overview of the project and finished pictures and then
I’ll do a post with more details and pictures and everything for each of the
season’s separately. This project was a
4 piece series, that started as one quick weekend project in a mini/toy grill I
got from Target, in what they used to call the dollar spot (I know it’s not
called that anymore since there’s a variety of price points there now, but I
can never remember what it’s called now lol).
I saw it and thought it would be cute to do a backyard cookout scene in
the little grill, and we were going to be dog sitting for my parents for the
weekend coming up soon so I thought it would be a good project to bring with me
to work on at their house, that I could get finished in the one weekend and
wouldn’t require bringing but so much stuff with me. Which was all completely true, but of course
me being me, then I see a little picnic basket at ACMoore, and have to do a
quick little picnic scene in that, which I end up deciding I should make a
miniature version of a party we had a few years ago in our yard, which was a
fall theme, so then I realize I’ve already got summer and fall, so now of
course I have to come up with something for winter and spring to go with
them…… I do have to say, most of them
were still relatively quickly finished (spring ended up taking the longest, but
still probably could have been accomplished in a weekend if I really put the
effort into it…), and relatively inexpensive (Which was also one of the goals
of the original idea). I did buy a few
things for them, but tried not to buy too much, and just being such small
projects there wasn’t really that much that I even could have needed to buy for
them anyway. So, the series ended up
being “Winter: Snow Tubing and S’mores”, “Spring: Garden Tea Party”, “Summer:
Backyard Cookout”, and “Autumn: 'Welcome Fall' Picnic”. As I said, I will do
posts for each piece separately with more detail and more pictures and all the
stuff I would normally post about projects.
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