Dollhouses and miniatures - DIY
| Dollhouse doll clothes, fast and easy |
How to make doll clothes out of wet wipes 2018-07-04 |
| Decorations for a christmas tree 1:16 - 1:18 scale |
For me, christmas
is not over yet. I wanted a really gorgeous christmas tree for my
Lundby house, and tried to make tiny ornaments to fit this scale.
Here are a few tips on how to make them |
| Found treasures - a piece of synthetic grass becomes an urn with irises |
I found a piece
of synthetic grass in a car booth sale for 1 SEK and made an urn
with irises |
| IKEA dollhouse hack |
Make a dollhouse scene out
of the small plastic parts left over from the time you built a closet... |
| About colours |
| Once every half year I check my
colours and if they are dry, I pour a little liquid into the cans;
water in the water based; thinner (white spirit) in the enamel paints
(or acetone). You get so disappointed if the colours all dry out.
Some of my colours are more than 20 years old 2012-01-25 |
| New safety belt in the Lundby car |
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| Garage sale find - a Lundby car | One of the safetybelts was missing | A medicine jar had a plastic strip, perfect for a new belt | I cut the strip, filed the end, cut a small notch for the lock and painted the strip. Finally, I collected some dust on top of a painting on the wall with my finger and rubbed the strip to take away some of the shine... | The notch on the strip fastens the new seat belt in the car. Like new again =) | |
| Dry paper clay |
| Put the concrete hard lump in
a couple of small zip lock bags with water. Be patient and wait for
it to become soft again (could take up to a month). Work it a bit
and it will be like new 2011-09-07 |
| Cloth without fringes |
| Use ordinary wood glue, dilute
it and apply carefully on the edge. You can also use it to strengthen
tiny crochet cloth for small tables 2008-12-26 |
| Soften your
plastic clay (e.g. cernit) |
| Use your food processor
for this. Put a hard clump of clay and work it in the processor until
it crumbles into very small pieces. A few drops of baby oil (pure
paraffine) on the crumbs and run the processer for quite a long time
- eventually the clay becomes soft and pliant. It will harden in the
oven as usual. 2008-11-05 |
| Spackling paste |
| When you have used paste, always
drip some water on the paste before you screw the top on. No more
dry paste! I prefer the acrylic paste the carpenters use, because
it never becomes gritty and it is possible to make corners with it
2008-09-22 |