Added: Amazing Miniatures' coffee table (part of our swap), turned on its side and used as a planter box.
Time taken: Fifteen minutes.
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
The Transport Cafe
Inspiration: Vintage Routemaster bus Matchbox toy picked up at Trash & Treasure for 50 cents.
Added: Amazing Miniatures' coffee table (part of our swap), turned on its side and used as a planter box.
Time taken: Fifteen minutes.
Added: Amazing Miniatures' coffee table (part of our swap), turned on its side and used as a planter box.
Time taken: Fifteen minutes.
Monday, August 22, 2011
It's all there in black and white
This black and white homewares shop scene started with the miniature Luuk tea towel cushion I finally got around to stuffing this afternoon.
I wanted to photograph it and was brainstorming ideas when I remembered the shelving unit that I received as part of a swap from Mitchymoo miniatures. Soon I had this:
Wanting to pick up the black and white stripes in the vase, I dug out the black and white seating unit from here, and, as I wandered past, picked up the lid of one of my black and white striped storage boxes to use as a feature wall (probably influenced by the fact I was printing off mini copies of this book earlier today...) 
And the giant peg? It just seemed to fit, especially after my recent forays into incorporating oversized items into my scenes.
(Time taken: twenty minutes.)
I wanted to photograph it and was brainstorming ideas when I remembered the shelving unit that I received as part of a swap from Mitchymoo miniatures. Soon I had this:
Wanting to pick up the black and white stripes in the vase, I dug out the black and white seating unit from here, and, as I wandered past, picked up the lid of one of my black and white striped storage boxes to use as a feature wall (probably influenced by the fact I was printing off mini copies of this book earlier today...) And the giant peg? It just seemed to fit, especially after my recent forays into incorporating oversized items into my scenes.
(Time taken: twenty minutes.)
Anniversary
Another scene inspired by an Avant card. This one was picked up last weekend and made me think of a pair of Frankie hipsters celebrating their anniversary.
Sunday, August 21, 2011
I've obviously been watching too much Ugly Betty recently...
As I suddenly felt the need to create a homage to the Mode offices...
I ended up creating a second space-saving version of the room:
(Credits on FLICKR)
I ended up creating a second space-saving version of the room:
(Credits on FLICKR)
Around the world
I'm fighting off the travel bug, which is grumbling about how long its been since I've been on a real holiday and singing me this on high rotation in protest.
In the meantime, I used the back of the scrapbooking paper from yesterday's scene as a starter for this:
(And a random vintage game piece I picked up for free at the op shop last weekend. I think it looks like an interesting bottle)
In the meantime, I used the back of the scrapbooking paper from yesterday's scene as a starter for this:
(And a random vintage game piece I picked up for free at the op shop last weekend. I think it looks like an interesting bottle)
Saturday, August 20, 2011
Browned off
I came home from last weekend's Trash and Treasure Market with (amongst other gems) a set of gargoyle coasters and an acupuncture doll.
Add some scrapbook papers from my trip to Div's in May, a couple of pieces from a cheap dining room setting I picked up at a show a few years ago, some accessories from the stash and:
Add some scrapbook papers from my trip to Div's in May, a couple of pieces from a cheap dining room setting I picked up at a show a few years ago, some accessories from the stash and:
Big game hunter
A surprise delivery from Amazing Miniatures this week included a fabulous perspex chair and one of her new perspex rhino heads.
Which inspired me to create my first scene in a while. 
I envisage it as the office of a successful 50-something single woman, who's still looking for Mr Right.
(Credits on FLICKR)
Which inspired me to create my first scene in a while. I envisage it as the office of a successful 50-something single woman, who's still looking for Mr Right.
(Credits on FLICKR)
Saturday, August 06, 2011
We three kings
Inspiration can strike in the strangest places.
A friend and I wandering round the CMAG Imitation of Life exhibition this afternoon when I spotted these three crown-wearing budgies as part of a work by Danie Mellor. And, suddenly, I had to take close up photos photos to frame and use as the basis for a scene*.
The only problem is that once I returned home in the cold and rain I lost my miniature mojo. So did nothing more than resize and print out the photos and check how they'd look framed.
Dammit! I need my miniature mojo back! I have embarrassingly overdue swaps to finish and get in the post this weekend.
(*I said to my friend that I could imagine them with a wing chair under them. She waited two counts and then cracked up. Having realised what I said I then declared that the scene should also feature beakers.)
A friend and I wandering round the CMAG Imitation of Life exhibition this afternoon when I spotted these three crown-wearing budgies as part of a work by Danie Mellor. And, suddenly, I had to take close up photos photos to frame and use as the basis for a scene*.The only problem is that once I returned home in the cold and rain I lost my miniature mojo. So did nothing more than resize and print out the photos and check how they'd look framed.
Dammit! I need my miniature mojo back! I have embarrassingly overdue swaps to finish and get in the post this weekend.
(*I said to my friend that I could imagine them with a wing chair under them. She waited two counts and then cracked up. Having realised what I said I then declared that the scene should also feature beakers.)
Sunday, July 24, 2011
And since I had the walls up anyway...
... I thought I'd play with some newish pieces: a fabulous Minimodernista clock I was given for my birthday and some vintage German furniture I won off eBay a couple of months ago.
At first I thought I could make the other corner of the bedroom I put together earlier today.
but decided to do a lounge corner instead.
I was pretty happy at this stage, all I needed was a few layers of "story".
A throw,
a book to read, and a little something to drink.
But, somehow, drinking bubbles by yourself just doesn't feel right.
Luckily I had another matching chair. And another glass.
Perfect!
Now, what are we celebrating?
At first I thought I could make the other corner of the bedroom I put together earlier today.
but decided to do a lounge corner instead.I was pretty happy at this stage, all I needed was a few layers of "story".A throw,
a book to read, and a little something to drink.
But, somehow, drinking bubbles by yourself just doesn't feel right.Luckily I had another matching chair. And another glass.
Perfect!
Now, what are we celebrating?
Pushing the envelope
My miniature mojo returned around 3am this morning, when I woke up with a start and knew exactly what I needed to do with all those security envelopes I've somehow started keeping over the past few weeks...
A few minutes with the 1" square punch, some graph paper and a glue stick. followed by some scanning, fabric printing and sewing and voila:
I call it my security blanket...
A few minutes with the 1" square punch, some graph paper and a glue stick. followed by some scanning, fabric printing and sewing and voila:
I call it my security blanket...
Thursday, July 07, 2011
Graft
"Dismayed by the destruction of our architectural heritage, artist John Radford has recreated a suburb in miniature. And he's selling the houses off the plan."
(I rather fancy owning a house in Auckland...)
The first Graft Street Party 2010 in the Q Theatre construction site from John Radford on Vimeo.
Story here, website here.(I rather fancy owning a house in Auckland...)
Sunday, July 03, 2011
Feeling the Frankie...
Who says wallpaper should only be used on the wall? A quick trip through the laminating machine and yesterday's wallpaper suddenly becomes today's lino.Add a vintage chair (another piece from an eBay estate sale job lot) and a few other bits and bobs and suddenly I have the beginnings of a studio reading corner. You can just imagine that the pieces in the photo have been sourced at no great cost from various op shops and markets to provide inspiration to the artist, who uses this corner to relax and regroup.
And what exactly is on those shelves?
Saturday, July 02, 2011
Not quite Frankie
But, you know, if you squint I might be getting close)
Even a more modern chair doesn't help much...
But I bought a MIP roll of this vintage wallpaper for $5 and so help me, I'm going to make it work in a modern scene*.
Just not today, as I've lost the light...
(*Want some? Let me know: I have 13 2/3 yards of the stuff to use up)
Even a more modern chair doesn't help much...But I bought a MIP roll of this vintage wallpaper for $5 and so help me, I'm going to make it work in a modern scene*.Just not today, as I've lost the light...
(*Want some? Let me know: I have 13 2/3 yards of the stuff to use up)
Back to school
The starting point: Alphabet fabric from M1K1, schoolroom clock from Call of the Small and a simple, beautiful table and chair from Mitchymoo Miniatures. Plus a giant apple from a recent Re-ment set purchased on eBay.
A schoolroom themed scene it was going to be!
I added another recent flokati rug knitting project, my blackboard and a large overstuffed chair I made years ago. Which, unfortunately, was quite the wrong shade of red.
I really really really wanted to use the clock so added it to one side of the scene, balancing it out with a vintage block I picked up from an op shop in Wollongong.
And added a red Mitchymoo stool underneath with the herb box from the same set as the apple.
Then all I needed to do was layer the details:
and I was done.
(What sort of natural herbs are they exactly? Hmmm....)
The final step was to take a couple of horizontal shots
to use as desktop wallpaper:
Before putting everything away.
A schoolroom themed scene it was going to be!I added another recent flokati rug knitting project, my blackboard and a large overstuffed chair I made years ago. Which, unfortunately, was quite the wrong shade of red.
I really really really wanted to use the clock so added it to one side of the scene, balancing it out with a vintage block I picked up from an op shop in Wollongong.And added a red Mitchymoo stool underneath with the herb box from the same set as the apple.Then all I needed to do was layer the details:
and I was done.(What sort of natural herbs are they exactly? Hmmm....)
The final step was to take a couple of horizontal shots to use as desktop wallpaper:
Before putting everything away.
More orange and pink inspiration
Take one orange desk lamp.
Add one fabric remnant picked up at Clegs' remnant sale on a recent trip to Melbourne, 
and one newly knitted pink flokati rug.
Mix with various bits of furniture from the stash...
...and leave to rise.
Add one fabric remnant picked up at Clegs' remnant sale on a recent trip to Melbourne, and one newly knitted pink flokati rug.
Mix with various bits of furniture from the stash......and leave to rise.Inspiration from Amsterdam, via New Zealand
This photo from last month's Urbis magazine, leaped out at me. Partly because of the grey walls which is a colour I've been working with lately, but also because I have an almost identical AG Minis desk lamp that I've not used in a scene yet:
I was planning to scan it but before I got around to it Urbis launched a website which included the article in question. Yay, Urbis!
Here's my first trial:
I wanted to use a grey armchair but I don't have one. Yet. So a piece of my vintage Concord sectional had to do. No stool of the right height either. Or white painted floorboards: something that's been on my list for weeks. But, overall, I'm pretty happy with it.
I decided to try adding the pink flokati rug I knitted this week, which works too:
But it still needs a bit of oomph, so I swapped out the lamp which originally inspired the scene with a recent arrival from Mitchymoo Miniatures' swap parcel. 
Which lights up!
I also (finally)remembered I have some Tord Boontje-esque bits downstairs which I bought to use as napkin rings. Which, although not white like the original, will work as a light shade. (Now if only I'd completed those black cushions I said I needed to add to the armchair...)
And for those of you who enjoy behind the scenes pictures:
(Credits on FLICKR)
I was planning to scan it but before I got around to it Urbis launched a website which included the article in question. Yay, Urbis!Here's my first trial:
I wanted to use a grey armchair but I don't have one. Yet. So a piece of my vintage Concord sectional had to do. No stool of the right height either. Or white painted floorboards: something that's been on my list for weeks. But, overall, I'm pretty happy with it.I decided to try adding the pink flokati rug I knitted this week, which works too:
But it still needs a bit of oomph, so I swapped out the lamp which originally inspired the scene with a recent arrival from Mitchymoo Miniatures' swap parcel. Which lights up!I also (finally)remembered I have some Tord Boontje-esque bits downstairs which I bought to use as napkin rings. Which, although not white like the original, will work as a light shade. (Now if only I'd completed those black cushions I said I needed to add to the armchair...)
And for those of you who enjoy behind the scenes pictures:
(Credits on FLICKR)
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Monday, June 27, 2011
Making minis
Fred laptop's resurrection from the dead on Friday meant I could finally print out the cushions I'd planned to make almost a month ago.
Guess I'll be spending tonight turning and stuffing...
I wasn't completely absent from my studio over the past few weeks. I spent quite some time clearing things away
(although I wonder how long it'll be before I can no longer see the desktop again...)
Guess I'll be spending tonight turning and stuffing...I wasn't completely absent from my studio over the past few weeks. I spent quite some time clearing things away
(although I wonder how long it'll be before I can no longer see the desktop again...)
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