Dolls and stick horses

One day my daughter asked me to do a blue mini stick horse for her dolls. She sat by my side the whole time and was very happy when I was done. (Now she wants to be a grown up so she can needle felt herself...)

 

I got stuck in horses for awhile.. But now I want to move on to something else.. But it's nice to do a lot when I feel like it, then it might take years until I want to do another horse again =)

As you could see on my Instagram, I did manage to do a dress for poor mini Blythe. It was harder than I thought.. But first I did a dress for a naked Lundby mum, it was easy and it fits perfectly.

Then I thought it would be easy to make another dress for LPS Blythe, but I was wrong...

The dress just came apart and the fabric wanted to come apart and then I used a lot of glue.. and in the end I just forced it on the poor doll after taking her head off.. The dress came apart again and I used more glue and now she is stuck in the dress.. =) Might be for the best.. I don't want to make another dress for a long time now...

Here she is with her friend. 

(The dress on the right is not made by me, only the left one)

Finally she was able to leave the bedroom.

The girls had a nice time in the livingroom. (My daughter thought Lalaloopsy should be in the picture too!)

And we had some rainy days, so the girls got to watch the same TV show me and my daughter watched this week; Pippi Långstrump (Pippi Longstocking)

I went looking for my Lundby furniture at my mum's basement, found a whole box of Lundby dolls =) Some will move in to the Lundby Dallas house.

I have gotten stuck in buying dolls too, I just love them, the apartment is quite full of dolls and miniatures by now.. Barbie, Ever After High and all kind of small dolls.. But since Sweden stop selling EAH I got a bit mad and don't know if I want to buy more.. it's not as fun to order abroad and they even deleted the whole EAH site in Swedish, and all the episodes are gone. So now me and my daughter can't watch them together.. I know they still make new ones in English, but she doesn't understand English yet.. and I think it was much more fun to watch them together with her.. and when they even deleted the old episodes so we can't even watch our old favourite ones I just gave up! But I'll save all my EAH dolls, and maybe I'll buy Kitty and Cupid too, really want them, but have to look abroad then.. But the Swedish prices were crazy, so I understand they didn't sell good enough.. 2 times or 3 times the price on Amazon.com, that is just stupid.. But when they gave up EAH they sold them very cheep, so I have manage to get hold on some new ones for a good price, have to take pictures of them some day..

But now I just rest a lot, building up some energy for times to come..
Take care

Hannah

Stuck in the nursery =)

When I was a kid, my brothers favourite animal was monkeys. I had a hard time choosing a favourite, since I loved them all =) Ants, spiders, dogs, rabbits, lizards, frogs, wolfs, elephants and giraffes (and everything else that lives) But when choosing an exotic animal, giraffes was always high on the list. They were tall and kinda skinny (just like me, well, OK, much taller than me, but still..)
I guess this is why I like doing miniature giraffes so much =) Even do the spots are kind of annoying ;)
I was thinking of doing something for my house, but I ended up doing another giraffe, so here it is:

https://www.etsy.com/se-en/listing/207972263/miniature-giraffe-needle-felted-giraffe

It's up for sale, since I already have a giraffe on my own =)

Two friends in the nursery =) 

The one in the back is staying with me, and the other one hopes to find a loving home soon.

You know I started with the nursery for my house. The funniest room to make since it's filled with toys, which I love =)
The other rooms are just on hold.. I just don't know were and how to start, I guess I'll have to take it one step at the time..
Anyhow I made a bedding to that empty crib of mine. It has been empty for so many years, but when I saw another girl (in our FB-group) doing a bed-set, I finally got started too =) Sometimes I need someone to "tell me" what to do, or see something done, and then I finally get started.

The dog was admiring the new bed-set =) 

 

Mini-Bä already made herself comfortable

I also went trough some of my boxes and found this cute teddy bear that I bought 10 years ago, finally I unpacked it and placed it in my dollhouse =) 

Looks like I can't make a new blog-post without another teddy bear showing up... ;)

I also found a knight's castle and a "painting"

I made this castle about 10 years ago, maybe even longer ago. I think it will go to my boy's room.

And this brooch is a memory from a deceased friend, it makes a great "painting". I always loved the motive, my mum has a poster with this motive in her bedroom and I thought it looked nice in the nursery. I always read a prayer about an angle that watched over our house when I was a kid and went to bed, and I imagine the kid's in this house does that too.

I forget how fun it is to decorate, I always think I'm really bad at it. But Jane's Dalicious

challenges made me want to set up a scene, a room and decorate =) 

 And I speaking of Jane, she is a very nice person, and I'll be posting about something she helped me get, as soon as I get it ;)

Take care

Hannah

Got some mail

I LOVE getting mail =) email is fun, but regular mail is just wonderful! And when it contains miniatures, it's the best!!!

Awhile ago I could not resist these miniatures.. so I bought them on FB.. (I think the balloons, which are too cute, are Re-ment, they should be in a box..) And the toy monkey is so very cute, but it was broken when I got it =( But I've glued it together again.

Didn't think I was going to save the teddy bear, but... I get too attached to things, quickly.. so the bear just run into my house before I could think of selling him..

Here he is, hiding behind and cuddling with one of my own bears..

But I guess Birgit agrees with me, one can never have too many bears.. ;)

Have no idea were this monkey originally came from, but he is really cute!!

Then I got a consultation prize in a guessing contest on FB, and the woman who held the competition knew I like fabrics, and retro patterns, so she sent me some retro fabrics. Lovely! Now I just need to collect enough courage to cut into them and make something out of them.. I always spend a great deal of time not knowing what to do, how to, and if I really should cut a lovely fabric like that...

I also got the last issue of Miniatyrvärlden, the one and only miniature magazine in Sweden. And guess what, I saw my name in it =) But it shouldn't have been there.. It was a picture of Anna's miniature houses, and it said that it was from Hanna and Annas miniatyrer. (First of all I spell my name with an extra h, most swedes don't, but I do =) ) and second of all Anna and I shared a table, but we didn't sell together, we just shared the space =) and Anna has miniatures, the English word for miniatyrer.. and it was Anna's houses, so my name shouldn't even be there.. but it was nice to see it ;)
Anna's mini-Lundby-houses are wonderful, I got one myself, you can see one of her houses in this post: http://hannahsminiatyrer.blogspot.se/2014/04/stockholms-miniatyrmassa-april-2014.html
or at her blog: http://www.annasminiatures.blogspot.se/2013/12/mini-lundby-house.html

And I also bought some books from a FB group (I love how there are lots of FB groups about miniatures) I bought 1 book and 2 magazines. (I will write more about the book later)

And then a very nice lady got lots of watchmaker stuff, glass and pointers. And she wanted to share with all who wanted something, and I asked for some glass (for tables) and some pointers, for candlesticks. Just needed to pay the postage, a great deal =)

Then I bought a glass cabinet, I have longed for this a long while, and finally I got it at a great price, on FB. I'm thinking of repainting it. Maybe green, blue or some other bright colour?! I'll think about that.

And when I went to a flee-market to buy some new dresses for my little girl (she loves dresses) I found these cute animals. My little girl got a few, the rest I kept for myself =)

I thought they could look good in a dollhouse..

I think I was right =)

I've been on a shopping spree... have to stop that now. We have very little space at home.. and I earn 0kr a month.. so I shouldn't go around spending money like this... But I LOVE shopping =) and I did sell a few things, some collectable items and miniatures, so I felt like I could spend that money, right away =)

Before I ended my shopping spree I did order a hand mixer too, looked several times, and then when I got just enough money, I spent it all on this wonderful thing =)
Her blog: http://minifanaberia.blogspot.se and the Etsy shop: https://www.etsy.com/se-en/listing/202858666/miniature-hand-mixer-with-removable?ref=related-4

  It's wonderful and you can even remove the beaters and the dough hooks!

I got a little gift too, a sign =)

The miniature next to my real one =)

I have gotten so many great mails lately, I'll have to stop buying things now.. but it was fun while it lasted ;)

 Take care

Hannah

Mini-Bä

Thank you all for your kind words about my rug tutorial, it was my first video ever, hope there will be more =) And thanks for the kind words about the music by my husband too. I'm very proud of him, he is a great composer and he can play all instruments (at least guitar, drums, bass, keyboard, flute, I might forget something, but I'm sure he could play what ever instrument that comes across his hands =) ) OK that will have to finish my bragging about my husband ;)
From my husband to my daughter =) She is the best girl in the whole wide world, and she is a fan of my miniatures, but she never get anything that I made.. until a week ago..

I'm very found of the miniature nursery and toys. I guess that's why I can't stop making teddy bears and toys, I hope I'll get to do a miniature toy store one day. But now to my latest mini-toy =)
My daughter has a favourite toy/blanket sheep that she got as a baby, and she loves it very much and calls her "Bä" (The sound a Swedish sheep say =) ) Bä follow us everywhere! At the beginning she was white.. but now she has her own, worn look... =)
I thought it would be fun to have a mini-Bä in my nursery, so I needle felted one. Then I felt a bit bad to keep it for myself, so I did another one for my daughters dollhouse.
I put it in her house and waited for her to see it =) And she said: Oh a baby Bä. Bä has become a mum! She was very pleased =) And now mini-baby-Bä is playing with Bä. He is so small I'm a bit afraid he will get lost soon, but I guess that's life when you give small kids very tiny things.. (A week has now past since I made him, and mini-Bä is lost from time to time, but we always manage to find him in the end) =)

 Bä meeting mini-Bä for the first time, they kiss and cuddle.

There is something very exciting on the TV, all the smurfs and the dollhouse dolls are lined up in the living room for some TV.

And Bä and mini-Bä got to look at the telly as well =)

Giving her one thing I made, made her want more.. =) So I'm working on a mini-pram she has been asking for.. Maybe I'll have to make two of everything from now on, so that she can get one.. or just hide away my stuff like I used too ;)

Last but not least, the teddy bears, they seem to increase =) These are the colours I made so far. It's fun to make them in different colours, I'm working on a beige and yellow one too =)

Take care

Hannah

Back, again =)

I think I spoke a bit to soon last time, saying I was back.. I was back home, but no more than that.. But now I have been catching up on blogs and made a few miniatures, but not that much..
Not much going on in my miniature house right now.. And I miss the summer and the heat, my daughter got a cold, I have been cleaning and doing laundry after our vacation.. and feel kinda uninspired..

But I did finish a rug, and started a tutorial on that, will be posting that soon, I hope =)

Is there a nativity scene I see there on the left?! Looks like noone has been here to clean since last Christmas..

I have a feeling my mini-family The Pettersson's took a vacation too. Looks like they have been doing some laundry too ;) (Tutorial on my washing machine is here: http://hannahsminiatyrer.blogspot.se/2013/11/making-washing-machine.html seem to be the post most people have read actually =) )

My white poodle tried lying on the new rug I made =) This rug will turn up in a tutorial soon =)

I don't know what the Pettersson's say about dog's in beads, but I haven't made the final bed set for this bed yet, so I'll allow it for now..

My brother went to Japan to study for a couple of months, I would have LOVE to come with him, or just visit him there, but it's a bit too expensive for me (and with all the wonderful dolls and miniatures they have over there, it would most certainly be an expensive trip for me;) ), and I have my family to look after too =) So I settle with buying some Re-ment plates instead... and some cute toys =) Found them in a group on Facebook.

You know I love toys, and I just couldn't resist these babies!! I have not showed them to my daughter, she would have taken them in a heartbeat......

I decided to try selling these bears on Etsy, I started with the green one, and I just got the grey/brown one out on Etsy too, the other one might just get out there when I get the time =) And I started to work on the "bear-line-up". A brown, a blue and a white teddy bear is in the making.
It's strange but ever since the fair I haven't felt like doing any cats and dogs.. Or I want to make them, but I just can't.. I have started on a cat, but I never feel like doing the head.. it's a headless cat at the moment.. I might get over that soon, but until then I'll keep doing bears, I enjoy that and I like to have them in all kind of colours =)

There was going to be a Stockholm miniature show this fall too, just like the one I was at in April. But I couldn't go, I haven't made enough things and it gets to expensive to go just as a visitor =) And then they cancelled the show because of troubles with the hotel (I was very happy then that I didn't bought any tickets to Stockholm), but now Miniaturemama Lena and friends are going to set up a new show 26/10, so if you are near Stockholm, go and take a look, I wont be there, but I know they will have a LOT of fun over there!
Read more about it here: http://miniatyrmama.blogspot.se/2014/09/stockholm-miniature-show.html

Take care
Hannah

Carpets and teddies

I thought it would be nice to do something for the dollhouse together with my 2,5 year old. She agreed, for a couple of minuets, then she got bored, but we manage to make a carpet for her dollhouse. She is very pleased with it.
I made one for myself too, but I never got to finish it =) As I said, she got a little bored..

This most be the most simple and fastest way to make a miniature carpet =) I'll just cut it clean and straight later, after I finished it. I used the same glue method as I did before: My easy carpet tutorial
I'll keep gluing some more yarn to mine later.

Then I can tell you that I bought my first silk gauze, from Etsy and a shop in USA. I have been a bit scared of shopping outside Sweden, but it went well =)
Now I only have to decide what to embroider on this piece, I'm almost scared to try, I don't want to waste it... =)

 And the latest news, I couldn't stop making orange teddy bears... ;) So here's a picture of them all. (The new ones that is, I have an old one since before too, and I have sold one too..) But I think I'm done with the orange teddies for the moment.. But you never know, that orange wool might sneak up on me again..

The one to the left is up for sale on Etsy, the one in the middle is suppose to stay with me and the one at the right was suppose to be up for sale soon, but when I dont separate myself from my work as soon as they are done, I get attached to them ;) So we'll have to wait and see where he'll end up, but I can't keep saving every other teddy like this, I'll get too crowded. And I dont want to stop making them =) But I guess I'll have a easier time to let some of them go if I collect them all in a box, then I can choose some to stay and some to go, to get more room. I'm in no hurry to get rid of them =)
Looking around at teddy bears on Etsy I decided to raise the price, once more, and I hope people will buy my things anyway... Now I know someone really wants it, and doesn't buy it because its kinda cute and cheap.. My first teddy bears were half the price this one is...
Hope I did right, otherwise I can always change back to cheaper prices later =) I think the woman who bought a lot of my stuff at the fair was going to sell them for the double price in her store, so if she can, I can, right? =)

Thanks for reading =) Hope you have a lovely summer! Here it's a bit cold =( But I'm hoping for great hot sunny weather soon.

Take care
Hannah

Nursery

I have been blogging more than usual this month, haven't I?! Well, like the Swedish saying: Smida medan järnet är varmt (Strike when the iron is hot).. So here I go again =)

I have been praying for friends. But one morning I woke up thinking, I have already gotten them,
here on my blog =) I wouldn't mind a nice girl in my age with a daughter (or son) in my daughters age that lived close to us, so that we could play together sometime. But I woke up thinking, God has blessed me with great blog-friends, and I should be thankful for them instead of missing the things I don't have.
So thank you all for your nice comments and blog-friendship, I just want you to know how much that means to me!

I've made some more dragons, I'll post pictures of that later, but right now I wanted to get back to my house again. I love to be able to do a little bit of this and a little bit of that :) So forgive me for jumping between projects like this :)

I read that Melissa of Magic by Melissa loves the dollhouse nursery, and so do I! I really look forward on decorating my nursery, I did plan for 2 nurseries/children's rooms in my house, just because I love nurseries and Children's rooms so much :) But I was a bit afraid to start, I want it to be perfect and I have so many ideas I don't know how to combine them and to get a beautiful totality, not just some beautiful pieces thrown together.. I have a hard time with that in all my rooms.. and I'm bad at "less is more".. But I guess I can throw in as many things as I like, and remove things later if I think it's to much =)
I'll just have to try, I can always rearrange everything later and make new furniture or things for all my rooms later :)

I'm done with the floor, finally!! But I was not that happy with it.. :( But it will have to do, maybe I'll like it better once I have started to decorate the room. I think I already like it a bit better =)

The carpet is made by MiniatureMama Lena I bought it on the fair, but she has one in her Etsy shop right now =)

 I think because of the roof it's a bit hard to furnish these rooms.. But I got an idea of shelves on the little wall between the room, I'm quite please with the result =)

Some of my felted animals moved in =) And the small Lundby house, I got from Anna.

 The books are also from Anna. I found the Barbie box on Pinterest.

My doll got to play a little with a sheep before I put it out for sale on Etsy.

I love bright colours, but I do like wooden furniture. But, should I paint this bed?? Or leave it as it is? I have a hard time repainting and change things that doesn't really need fixing.. But I wonder if I'd like it better in a bright colour?! I can't decide.. Anyhow I will change the bed set. =)

I was planning on making a teddy bear for my Etsy shop, but... This one begged me to stay ;) (Too many of my felted animals do.....) I plan to make a toyshop some day, I love toys, and I cant keep filling my nursery.. So, a toystore would be great.. But I have a bit to many projects right now.. I would love to furnish a house (I'm doing it right now), a greenhouse (started) a fantasy house (started a roombox), Santas workshop (started) a toy store, a pet store, a bakery, another big house, a 50s house, a garden and a house that I built from scratch.....

But I'm good at starting new projects and leave them unfinished, I'd love to finish a project (as mush you can finish something..) But instead of working on my own projects I started working on a frog for Etsy... As soon as I think I'll take a little needlefelting break, I'm at it again...

But my next post, I promise it will be about the dragons =) I was a bit dissappointed with my work, but in the end they weren't all bad.. so I promise some dragons next time =)

A last picture of the rooms so far, I think I'll have to rearrange everything... But I don't know how.. I'll have to think about that =)

 

I'm not finished with the baby dressing-table, I added a board to it, I thought it was too short for a baby =) And I'm planning on repainting it.

Take care

Hannah