Dollhouses and miniatures - show cases
| I love to make showcases,
because it doesn't take a year before they are finished and when everything
is glued, well, then they really are finished, for good or bad. It
is not so hard to find room for them and they becomes a time document,
a diary of sorts. I work hard to do most of the things by myself and
love to do things from old material. Sometimes you have to buy stuff,
of course and this is where I say thank heavens for auctions on the
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| Old Swedish store This is a store I made in the 80s. Real meringue, bread out of salt dough, tarred hemp string, once beautiful green salad made from silk paper, sausages of hobby clay and bottles from a game. The small cans on the bottom shelf are made from cigarette filters (new ones, of course - they are very light and superb in show cases) Old cigar box and metal frame. To make the butter I pinched my daughter's lego pieces and covered them with foil.
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| Christmas in the cabin or, more likely, in a upper middle-class home. Felt slippers, christmas gifts (you can hardly see them, but they exist). A gift with a small airplane is half open on the floor. A small red knitting in the armchair. Linda made the carpet and the wallpaper is actually bought (naughty!). The chandelier and the christmas goat come from a flea market. The tiled stove is a piece of laminate carpet from the cellar. The table is a cotton reel with a large button of mother-of-pearl (did you notice how hard it is to find buttons like that nowadays?). Cigar box and second-hand frame. |
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| The park My son made a drawing in school once, a desolate park where the dry leaves whirled in the breeze and a lantern gave a soft light in the corner. The leaves are real. They come from a maple with small leaves outside the house. You had to look really close, of course, they were not all of that size =) The paper basket is made of tin with tiny holes in it. Cigar box and photo frame.
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| Bakery This is the bakery, pastry and cookies, many of them formed in hobby clay and salt dought but also other things, e.g. a button of cloth looking exactly like a soft cake. The design is not stylistically correct - a house wife from the fifties is baking bread behind the open counter but the signs on the wall are from the 60s. Some of the cakes and pastry are far too large in scale. Diploma on the wall. Cigar box and silver frame. |
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