Mini Treasures

A few treasures I picked up at the Mini Les Bois Miniature Show last month.  Shown in my unfinished roombox/dollhouse.  ;)

Paper towel holder, wood salt and pepper set 

and fabric message board all made by

Minis by Jeannine and Don

My grandson pronounces "doggy" as "goggy".

So the name has stuck.  Goggy it is. 

I couldn't decide the best place for Goggy so

I kept moving him around the dollhouse.  

Grandson had so much fun finding Goggy each

time he came to visit, that a new tradition was born --

I now move Goggy around just to delight Grandson

who, at three years old, is about half-convinced

that Goggy comes to life and moves about on his

own when no one is looking.  :D

A few moments after snapping the above photograph,

Goggy took a spill and his tail broke off.  :(  

I glued it back on and hope that Grandson doesn't 

notice before I get a replacement.  

 

This room is definitely a work-in-progress.  Notice

there's no wallcovering, and the table in the back

is missing its top.  It's a placeholder until

I get (or make) a fireplace.  Chair and sectional by

Minis by Jeannine and Don

Coffee table and lamp by MiniByDesign

and the Red Poppy Painting is by Hazel Rayfield

 

Even though my dollhouse is nowhere near finished (are they ever??),

it brings me a tremendous amount of joy anyway.  I love sitting in 

the chair nearby and peeking into this tiny world.  :)

 

 

 

 

 

Mini Les Bois Dollhouse Miniature Show, April 2015

Travel Agency Roombox by Deb Matunas

One of the highlights of attending a dollhouse miniature show is seeing the wide range of roomboxes, vignettes, and yes, sometimes even full dollhouses, on display.

Oftentimes the displays are made by members of the miniature club that sponsored

the event.  Such is the case with the above roombox.  Deb Matunas creates very high quality, incredibly detailed, miniature scenes and the above box is no exception.  

I especially **love** that a decorator suitcase is used as the "box".  And once again, a few sets of my luggage have found a beautiful forever home.  Well done!

Of course, in addition to the display eye candy, there's also some shopping to do!

Items that insisted on coming home with me ;)

 These lovely miniatures were too adorable to resist!  The rocking chair, I'm told, is

made by the company that was the pre-cursor to Bespaq.  Bespaq, of course, is

synonymous with superior quality in the dollhouse miniature world.

I wish I knew the maker of this beautifully crafted woven basket.  It is about 1 1/4" wide and is very well made.  I love woven baskets!  In real size, in mini size... I love them all!  This one will probably be filled with miniature fruit and adorn my dollhouse kitchen.  Or, perhaps filled with "mail" and placed on a shelf next to a desk.  Hmmm....  so many possibilities!

1:12 Peanut Butter, Crisco, and Coffee Mug

 The jar of peanut butter and can of Crisco Vegetable Shortening are made by Cindi's Mini's.  The color of the peanut butter is PERFECT!  Looks good enough to eat!

I'll put the #1 Grandpa coffee mug in the planned-but-not-yet-created dollhouse den, right next to the laptop and sports and car racing magazines.  :)

1:12 Miniature Shipping Boxes, Ream of Paper

And now, the office supplies!  I nearly flipped a wig when I saw these miniature shipping boxes and ream of printer paper!  To call them perfect would be an understatement.  The flattened boxes actually unfold to become real, to-scale shipping boxes.  The USPS box even has printing on the inside of the 'cardboard' -- just like the real thing!!!  My imagination is running amok with all the possible uses for these boxes....  Now I just need to create some tiny shipping labels.....  ;)

For more information about the Mini Les Bois Dollhouse Miniature Club and annual Dollhouse Miniature Show, check out their Facebook Page. 

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