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50's boy's bedroom: I was born in 1950 along with a twin brother, so I can tell you what he had in his bedroom in the 50's was mostly cowboy decor. Lamp with cowboy on horse silhouetted in sunset motif, cowboy hat on chair back, even had some homemade curtains with cowboys and Indians on them. Had colors in browns, orange, tans. Also had model planes hanging around, books because he liked to read, baseball glove and bat, etc. Paulette in In |
50's Boys room: I think of many ideas. First one comes to mind is a cowboy room like Roy Rodgers. Chenille Bedspread with Roy roping in the air on his horse Trigger. A covered wagon lamp setting on knotty pine furniture. Next The rocket to the Moon. With Stars and Moons with Rocket in middle bedspread. Then Rockets hanging from the ceiling and glow in the dark stars on the walls. Modular furniture in a light gray color. Next one of my favorite is Davy Crockett King of the Wild Frontier! Coonskin Caps, Betsy his rifle, leather fringe buckskin and moccasins. Wood furniture ;like twigs and skin lampshade. Bearskin rug. etc. Sherri Deer Park, Texas |
Book Rooms: I can't remember right now who asked about books rooms but Shannon Moore is noted for her book displays. She can be found at www.shannonsminis.com/minis.html Ana |
Diapers: The size of "old-fashioned" nappies: Newborn size 22 x 22 inches, Regular size 28 x 28 inches. If you want to display it as folded nappies, it may be too bulky. Glue a piece of white fabric to a square of heavy duty tinfoil, fold in the raw edges, fold the nappy and display a stack somewhere in the scene. Betsie |
Mini Quilting Supplies: I know this isn't exactly what you asked for, but the ex-theatre-propmistress in me had a few ideas you could use if the minis you need are not available. Rotary cutter: polyclay handle, with a flat silver sequin held in place by a mini nail and a different color polyclay for the guard. I'd make an olfa cutter, since they are much easier to sculpt than the Fiskars cutter. Green or grey cutting mat: Thin green or gray 'foamies' from Michaels, cut to size (my cutting mat is one of the big ones, 2.5x6 feet in two sections, but you can get them in just a 3x4 size and smaller) with a grid carefully drawn on in opaque yellow (for green) or orange (for gray) gel pen. You may also do the grid as a clear printable sticker or decal and apply that to the foam sheet. White cutting mat: slightly translucent white plastic food container lid (like on plain cool-whip or shortening cans), cut to size (these come in similar sizes to the green and gray ones) with a clear printable sticker of the grid. Templates, clear rulers: Acetate sheet, or plastic report covers, cut to size and marked very carefully by hand or with printed clear labels. Colored templates should be colored on the back with permanent marker if you are only using clear plastic. These would need to be carded if hung in a display, and the cards could also be printies. Pencils are pretty easy to do: cut toothpicks or very skinny dowels to size (3/4 inch?) and sharpen one end, then color it the right colors for quilter's markers. These need to be carded or displayed in a stand of some kind, so you'd need lots. Maura Bass |
Backyard items: How about a sandbox with a canvas cover to keep the sun of the children, a swing set a small tree house, a small, inflatable pool with toys. There was a How-To, in Nutshell News, for the sandbox & swing. Linda B |
Pharmacy Ideas: I purchased a book in a home decorating shop that opens in the middle to make a pharmacy scene for my son and daughter in law. I cut an opening and added a bay window for one side where I made a display of an ancient pharmacy book made by Barbara from South Africa. She does beautiful work and her prices are very reasonable. Her site is: http://www.bbminiatures.homestead.com Juanita in Missouri |
Pharmacy Ideas: I find that making a room box sometimes isn't as appreciated by a non-miniaturist as we wish and then WE'RE the one disappointed. However, it would be great to make a shadow box that could include a miniaturized photo of her diploma, photo in graduation garb, miniature morter and pestle, tiny medicine bottles/pill containers, perhaps even an antique medicine bottle, not to scale but most old pharmacy bottles are, by their nature, small...you can usually find at antique shops and shows for about $10, sometimes with raised printing naming the pharmacy and location. Background could be a lightly Xeroxed crest of the school she graduated from. I've found that many non-miniaturists become intrigued with this kind of introduction to our hobby. Whatever you do, don't make it a dust catcher. Sometimes a book end can be that. Molly Cromwell |
Pharmacy items. I have quite a few (including mortar and pestles) on my website at http://www.spminiatures.com/doctor.htm Carol |
Pharmacy Ideas: When I was growing up, all the pharmacists had these magnificent bottles and decanters in their windows, filled with colored liquids (vivid blue seems to stand out in my mind; fuscia and maybe red or yellow). I never knew what those were for, or what they did, but they were beautiful in a child's eyes, and I thought they could heal the world! Dollladie |
Pharmacy Ideas: i was thinking of some ideas and thought i would pass them along... you need make one of those pill counters.. they are just flat piece of plastic and on one side is a curved (U) pieced of plastic connected to the other piece of plastic..the counter looks likes a cake icing spatula lol no joke! LOL well at least they used too! Kinda long and was metal..Need some bags to put the prescriptions in and maybe some little labels for the bags and maybe some get well soon cards for under the counter and a computer and printer and a telephone and a calendar and clock and some prints for the wall, a little display on the counter of misc items like lip balm or clippers or nose pads..a lot of pill bottles and lotions and liquid bottles.. now in a pharmacy the bottles that are in the back are the ones that they come in and the empty bottles are under the counter where they stand, that they used to give out prescriptions. If you are going to have shelves out front like at WalMart, then you need a wide variety of stuff like all kinds of headache stuff, slim fast stuff, diet stuff, vitamins of all kinds and birth control stuff, eye glasses and a blood pressure machine, first aid stuff.. I would go to a couple different drug stores and check them out what they all have.. Take a pencil and paper and write it down.. and if you know your pharmacist ask him or her some of the other odds and ends in the back... ohhh on the door that separates the public and the pharmacy have a hanger for a medical coats or smocks.. not sure what they wear there.. maybe in the back have a lunch bag with a soda on the counter?? Just some ideas.. JenniferKY |
Tea Shop Furniture: We made a half-scale tea shoppe in a teapot once for a state day. I, too, thought there would be plenty of room for everything I wanted to put in it. I only planned on two tables, each with two chairs but ran out of space. I ultimately cut the front legs off the chairs and glued them real close to the tables (had used table cloths that came to the floor) so it took much less space and once you glued them in place, you were all set. Now, I'm not going to claim that I thought of this, since I didn't, but it sure did work well for me. Dottie in Tucson |
Tea Shop Furniture: I have painted $1 furniture and decorated it with paint or decoupage and it no longer looks quite so cheap. I used clear lacquer to seal and it handles well. I think if you use fancy cocktail toothpicks for the table legs and a heavy cardstock for the tabletops, with linens they ought to do for a tearoom. You could use a similar technique for the chairs, I recall a local sandwich shop (no longer in business:-() that covered the seats and backs of the chairs with print fabric to match the tablecloths. It was very effective because I noticed that none of the tables or chairs would have matched each other otherwise! Olegator |
Tea Shop Furniture: Smuckers jar lids are already gingham patterned; if you use them as your tiny tabletops, you could even set one up as if that table were in the middle of being bused and the new cloth hadn't been laid down yet! Loretta.Sniarowski |
Tea Shop Furniture: I'm wondering if using "fancy, finished" legs glued on a not-so-special table top, all covered w/ a tablecloth and topper would be a way to get small round or sq. tables for the tea room room-box? It seems I could make them all matching in size and finish that way and not spend my grocery money. Any hints for making these?" I think this would be not only a solution, but authentic! I've certainly made IRL tables for myself this way. LOL I wouldn't even worry about consistency. The quaint tea shops I've been to had all different tables, chairs, settings, etc. and it was just charming. Chrissy the Hyphenated from Upstate NY |
Tea Shop Furniture: I made my tea shop tables from rounds of Styrofoam. Buy one of those long cylinders and use about an inch and a half for each table. When you put a round piece of cardstock on the top, cover it with a circle of fabric made by measuring the diameter and twice the height of the cylinder, then use pins to hold it in place until it dries. I also covered the bottom of the cylinder before putting the cloth on it. You can then trim it with lace or bunka. Put a fringed square on top, too, and then you really have a classy table for your shop. And don't have to spend all the grocery money, either. Dottie in Tucson |
I've not seen a House That Jack Built, but trying to visualize it, I came up with the idea that it belongs to a bachelor(ette?) shop owner or professional of some kind. Clients/customers leave their coats in the little room and come in to shop? consult? have a portrait taken? be fitted for a dress? The owner lives in the two rooms above, with an eat-in kitchen and probably a small bath on the 2d floor, with a bed-sitter on the 3rd, and storage in the attic. Can you fit a circular stair between the 2d and 3rd and fake up a drop down ladder thing to the attic? I've gone to a number of establishments that aren't too far different from this, including a vet, a doctor, a seamstress, a picture framer, a used book seller, and a photographer. BTW, my in laws house has a very small room to the right of their front door. It's a walk in coat closet. Almost like a mud room, really, it collects all the coats, boots, hats, skis, yada yada, which is nice, since they then aren't dumped in the hall where everyone will trip on them the way they are in MY house. Chrissy the Hyphenated |
Backyard items: Just looking at our messy backyard, and using some more messy imagination: Laura |
Hunting/Fishing Cabin: Hope some ideas from my hunting lodge help. A plain metal bed, fireplace and old cook stove. Dogs, cards, gun rack and guns, metal coffee pot, beer cans, (oh those boys) darts, duck decoy, boots, pheasant, thermos, binoculars, braided rug, cans of chili, fishing rod, mounted fish. Once you get started the ideas keep on coming. Nance in Ohio |
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