Sweet Treats

Wooden produce crates make perfect miniature buildings.  Two examples below – a French bakery and a mouse house.  Pardon the quality of the photos.  These date all the way back to the era of pre-cell phone cameras.

The Mouse House

A house put together by a mouse would be expected to have lots of odds and ends.

 

 

Second floor.

 

 

St. Francis, patron saint of animals…who else would you expect to find in a mouse’s garden?

 

French Bakery

 

French Bakery

 

Fresh baguettes, gateaux and other delightful sweets! Your coffee is already poured.

 

Enchanted

Fairy house, gnome home or mouse house, you be the judge.  Everything used in this house was found, not bought; disassembled and reassembled; bashed, broken, glued, painted, and tweaked every which way.

 

The shell of the house was falling apart and some of the roof was missing. It was going in the trash until it was saved at the last minute for this crazy little project.

 

 

 

 

 

Before and After: Fairy Chair

 

 

 

 

Fairies can’t be expected to bathe in an ordinary bathtub.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Radio Waves

This 1936 radio cabinet had been gutted and all that was left was the cabinet.  Now it’s a period, 3-story miniature house.

 

The salvaged radio cabinet that no one wanted.

 

The house is 1/12 scale.  The top floor is the living room.

 

The second floor is the kitchen. The semi-circular cut out behind the stove was where the speaker used to be.  Many of the furnishings were salvaged or repaired commercial pieces.  Others, such as the stove in this photo, I made by hand.

 

The first floor bedroom connects to the bathroom. The electrical wire in the left foreground powers the lights on each floor.

 

Bathroom on the first floor.

Here is the renovated cabinet, unfurnished. Some of the structural supports of the original cabinet can be spotted in this photo.

 

Here is the entire cabinet, fully furnished and lit up.