29th of December 2011
I started playing with the hippie house again.
15th of August 2011
HIPPY DIPPY IN MINI
The blog Hippy Kitchen holds a special place in my heart (exhibits A, B, C), so I’ve decided on creating a hippy kitchen in the Painted Lady dollhouse:
I still have a whole lot more work to do but I think the mellow vibes are getting there. Do you see that loaf of bread back there in the second photo, next to the hunk of cheese? It’s made with buckwheat flour and sweetened with applesauce and molasses, for a super rustic hippie flavor. Just kidding, it’s plastic from China. Those painted ceramic bird figures in the back were my grandfathers - just more of his objects getting a second chance at life from collecting dust as bric-a-brac. The wooden furniture I found on eBay, I think it’s from Japan. The cabinets are vintage Lundby. The table cloth and rug are scraps from one of my epic D&D looting trips and the rest is Re-Ment.
Can you think of anything else that would be found in a proper hippy kitchen? What else? Macrame? Hanging plants? A bong?
8th of March 2011
Window of the Painted Lady dollhouse
Hanging in the window are clear plastic flaps that came from a colorful sampler sheet of clear plastic flaps. Instant psychedelic curtains!
Full disclosure: My roommate works at an incredible designer fabric store (possibly the best in NYC?) and hooks me up with some great samples - I’m so fortunate he thinks of me when these types of things cross his path. Samples are your friend when working in miniature!
Below, the view through the window:
25th of February 2011
Look into Jackie Curtis’ eyes in miniature.
11th of January 2011
Here is a beaded suede fringe curtain I made and some bedding I’m working on for the painted lady dollhouse. Curtains are only beaded at the bottom because I’m lazy or minimalist, you decide. I may suck it up and replace with fully beaded strings, but don’t hold me to it.
8th of December 2010
Not sure if you’ve heard but concrete is all the rage in kitchens today. Forget marble or granite or whatever. PLAYED OUT. Sorry. Concrete is economical, green, versatile, fully customizable, long lasting. Using concrete in kitchens is some next level shit, and here in the dollhouse, as you can see, I am on it.
5th of December 2010
I made a little concrete block shelf unit for the painted lady today. I’m starting a collection of miniature brass vessels - two of these are brass bullet cases that I bought at the flea market last weekend.
Update: While browsing in an antiques shop today, I learned a new term - Trench Art (or, l’artisanat des tranchées). That’s when you use artillery shells and ammo and whatnot to make art. Soldiers and POWs did it, but civilians can too. So, I am now on a mission to make some trench-art style work in miniature.
3rd of December 2010
This is one of a pair of Dansk silver vases I found at the Columbus Avenue Flea Market last weekend - $10, and they came with the original box and everything. I’m not sure where in the dollhouse I’m going to put them yet. You would not believe how heavy & substantial these things are, either. Solid!
30th of November 2010
Here is the Petite Princess rolling drink cart in situ. I can’t believe how tiny and awesome this stuff is. It really rolls. Also pictured in the background - a vase I made by spray painting layers and layers of red, white and pink and letting it drip upside down. I also made this weird sofa of a strip of leather and some scored cardboard and spray painted it glossy black. The pissing putti and the white dove are from my grandfathers collection of tchotchkes.
Admit One Brain Melting
Some of my little books
Confession: All I see when I look at this photo is that dribble of silver paint on the orange wall that needs to be touched up.
21st of November 2010
OMG
Where can I get/how can I make miniature concrete blocks? I’ve decided to use stripper_polaroids as inspiration for a room in the Painted Lady and this is pretty much the photo that made that happen.
UPDATE:
DONE AND DONE
