Showing posts with label dollhouse miniature show. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dollhouse miniature show. Show all posts

Friday, December 30, 2016

Drawing for Free CIMTA 2017 Miniature Show Tickets!

The Cottage Industry Miniaturists' Trade Association
(CIMTA) Dollhouse Miniature Show is
quickly approaching!  
January 23rd & 24th, 2017
Orleans Hotel & Casino
Las Vegas, NV
For more information, check out the
For a chance to win two 2-day passes, share this post on your blog
and then post a comment on this post.  
Winner will be announced 
Friday, January 6, 2017 at 12:00 p.m. MST

UPDATE:  No winner to announce as there no one entered this
Blog Drawing/Giveaway.   Winners of the
Facebook drawing/giveaway are announced on my facebook page.



Friday, May 27, 2016

Save the Date!

Have you heard the news?  CIMTA 
(Cottage Industry Miniature Trade Association) has added a
 RETAIL show to its 2017 miniature show lineup! 

This is exciting news for collectors and mini-makers alike!!!

Shop for quality miniatures from artisans like:



ULUS miniatures de Jose Maria Bolio (Mexico)
 
 ...and more (including yours truly)...

CIMTA has over 35 years experience bringing scale model artisans
 and collectors together.  Originally a wholesale show only, the expansion into the
 retail arena offers west coast collectors a chance to shop high-end miniatures without travelling to the east coast!  And there's so much to do in Las Vegas, 
why not plan a vacation around the mini show?!?

Are you excited??  Me too! 

Save the date!  January 23, and 24, 2017
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA



***Watch this space for a chance to win TWO free tickets to the show!***  

If you make miniatures and are interested in signing up, check out
 this link for more information.

See ya there!  :)



Saturday, May 9, 2015

Mini Les Bois Dollhouse Miniature Show, April 2015

1/12th Scale Travel Agency Roombox in a Suitcase
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!
1/12th Scale rocking chair, Vegetable shortening, peanut butter, basket, coffee mug, shipping boxes
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.  :)

1/12th Scale FedEx box, USPS Priority box, Amazon box
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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Wednesday, May 7, 2014

Time Flies When You're Having Fun...

Has it really been a whole year since I last blogged?!?  
Where does the time go?!?

The Mini Les Bois Dollhouse Miniature Show & Sale 2014 was awesome!  I met some new collectors, new artisans, and had a great time.  

My favorite purchase this year:
Too cute for words!

For size comparison, here he is with a penny:

He's been added to my Jungle Babies Nursery Roombox and he looks right at home in there.  :)