Lesley's Miniatures Blog April 2008 Archive

If you are tired of your little people wearing turtlenecks or high collared dresses to hide the fact that they have a pipe cleaner stuck in their head, you ... Read More

Lots of miniature collections start with the Believe It Or Not miniature. I remember being amazed when the coffee bean full of miniature carved ivory elephants was produced from ... Read More

I know at first site it looks like these projects are all aimed at doll lovers. The same sculpture techniques for doll hands, heads and feet will work ... Read More

I started the series on sculpting miniature doll parts based on body proportions because some of you have told me you can't find figures in the scale or ... Read More

Sculpting miniature people isn't hard if you pay attention to the proportions of various body parts. Hands often look wrong on dolls if they weren't made for a particular ... Read More

Sculpting faces takes a bit of practice but it isn't as hard as many people think. Polymer clay and air drying clays including paper clay make it easy ... Read More

Thank heavens for standards, they make life much easier when building to scale! Standard proportions apply to miniature dolls the same way they do to drawings or sculptures of people, ... Read More

Sometimes labels can lead you astray. This miniature doll push mold by Sculpey does make miniature doll parts, just not in the scale many miniaturists are looking for, and not ... Read More

It is always interesting to see the same building with different finishes. In this gallery, five members of the Small Endeavors Miniature Club in Victoria B.C. have given very ... Read More

I like making things match and I seldom find all the items I want in the same range of furniture. Last week I told you how you ... Read More

I've spent a lot of my life working on environmental issues when I'm not working with miniatures. How refreshing it is to see a book about a project that ... Read More

Creative people always want something a little bit different. If you have a group of pleasing, but mismatched furniture pieces you would like to pull together for a ... Read More

This bright blue or pink flowering miniature bulb covers the ground in many areas as soon as snow melts. Easy to grow, it is a great groundcover for your ... Read More