Miniature Gift Bag Room Box

Gift Bag Room Box

 I made this gift bag room box for my Uncle Buck's 85th birthday, yesterday.  It took me over 7 hours of non stop work but I had a blast making it and only wish I would have thought of making it earlier so I would have had more time to work on it.

Room box in a gift bag

 I cut a window out of the gift bag and added some bias tape around the edges.  I wanted to use ribbon but my Mom put my box of ribbons somewhere and I can't find them.

 I made the interior walls, roof, and floor out of foam core, left over from my bake shop.  The wall paper and flooring is contact paper, from the dollar store. 

 I resized a photo of my uncle Buck and his late wife, Cobie, for the wall, and used scotch tape to attach it to a piece of wood.  The tape kind of looks like glass in real life.

Buck wanted cake, pizza, and KFC, so I recreated that in mini, using polymer clay.  I made the cake big because the real cake was huge, big enough to serve 20 people with lots of left overs.  I also put in a cheese and cracker tray with a bowl of olives, and some bead vases.  The pizza box and chicken bucket are printies.

 My uncle loves Frank Sinatra and has all of his albums so I rezised an album cover and printed it out, and glued on a backing so it's like an envelope.  I even cut out a little disc to put inside but didn't have time to paint it black.

 The furniture was from the dollar tree.  I wish I would have had time to paint it.

Uncle Buck really loved his gift, and so did everyone else.
I will definitely make another one one day.

Printable Mini Cash Register and Tea

The bake shop needed a cash register so I decided to try a printable.  I found this at Small Stuff Print Minis.
It said it was 1:12 scale but it looked really big on my printer preview page, so I copied it and made a smaller version as well.  I folded and glued both, but as it turns out, the bigger one is the right scale.
I added a bead so the monitor would be up higher, and I added a curl of paper to the receipt area.  They are both cute but I like the smaller one better.

Dollhouse mini cash registers from printies

 I also made some boxes of tea, and let me tell you, I don't have the patience for making 30 tea bags to fill one box of tea.  I made one tea bag with REAL tea leaves, and two fake tea bags and called it a day, lol.  I learned how to do this by watching a tutorial by the talented Yolanda Meow on Youtube.

 Yolanda Meow was kind enough to provide a link to the printies.  After watching her make the little tea bags, and attempting it myself, I've come to the conclusion that she has MUCH more patience than I do.  Also, her hands are steadier.  She made her real tea bag actually real and usable. Mine is not usable because I had to glue the tea in place otherwise it blew all over the place every time I exhaled, lol.

 Sadie is happy with the cash registers and the tea.

I also tried a paper plate using the plate press that came in the mail today.  It's cute, I think. 

It's after midnight and I'm wiped.  I should get some sleep.  Sweet dreams, and thanks for joining me on my mini journey. 

Teeny Tiny Felt Bird

I made this little white bird to go in the giftbag.  It's just a bit bigger than a Canadian penny!