My Abandoned Toy Shop is looking WEIRD! (Collab with
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- Опубліковано 7 чер 2024
- Thank you, Whitney, for doing this collab with me!!
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omg! The mushrooms came out so amazing, I loved all the color and my eyes were darting around trying to absorb all the amazing details. It was so magical and whimsical. I was amazed at how many things we did in a similar way, like having a dollhouse was a must! This was such a fun collab for me, thank you! . I loved the story with the open box "special delivery" I think that may be one of my favorite things about a lot of your projects, a really clear story told through minis!
Thank you! I had a lot of fun with it and thoroughly enjoyed incorporating all the amazing toys you gave me! Your project came out so detailed and I enjoyed the history part of it🧐 Thanks again for collabing with me on this one😊
I will have to re watch my body decided to have a hypo grrrrr x
Fantastic!!! ❤
"Use the nice stuff" is an important philosophy to learn sometimes. I bought myself a stupidly expensive face moisturizer to use on my wedding day while I was stress shopping, and I forced myself to use it as my only face moisturizer until it was gone. I've had so many nice or fancy or expensive products expire over the years because it never felt like a special enough occasion to use them. If I bought it for my wedding day, I couldn't just use it on a random Tuesday morning... Except that no day is going to match the magnitude of my wedding day as far as being special, and I spent too much money to only use it once. That's how I learned to just... Drink the nice tea. Use the nice bath bomb. Bake with the fancy vanilla. Use the special pieces in your craft collection. Wear the heirloom jewelry to work. Make a pot roast on a Monday. We don't get to enjoy the little luxuries in life when we're always saving them for an unknown potential future need that's "big enough."
I don't use 'the good stuff' all the time and Ive had to throw stuff out because it's gone out of date etc., it's a real waste. Like you I have to force myself to use things
Every day is a special day because you are living another day. I was about 30-35 years old when an 20 year older woman told me to enjoy every day. Your life can be over in a second, you can be ill, you can lose your eyesight ect. I take that advice and live my life, enjoy everything and I know I'am worth it. Saturday I will be 67 and I get retired. Maybe this has nothing to do with miniatures, but if you want to make them....take your time and make something small. Don't wait for a perfect day, it will never come, unless you make the day special by yourself.🥰
I love that this resonated with so many people even outside of the miniature art form! Yes, every day is a gift and its worthy of using the nice stuff!!❤️
So y'all are saying I SHOULD use that very fancy padauk wood I purchased on my next furniture build and not save it for "something special." THIS IS THE SOMETHING SPECIAL!
@@marykayryan7891 this is it! This is the moment!
1865 is the year that ALICE IN WONDERLAND was first printed. Turned out looking great, Ara! Love the 'shrooms!
You know. I didn't actually KNOW that. But I did guess it had something to do with Alice and Wonderland.
I was going to guess Winnie the Pooh! Just a guess😢! Toys, toy shop❤!!!
You got it, Loston!! I am so glad you enjoyed the project and my strange invaders😆
Love it. I can see future kids just so sad that they can't play with these toys! It'll be okay, just brush them off, mom! No! Keep your mask on and let's keep walking!
Yup! Exactly... you can look but don't touch!
The abandoned coffee shop is one of my all time builds you've ever done! I'm so excited to see another abandoned build, and it looks so amazing, so much interesting detail everywhere, my fav is the doll house in the window with the little mushrooms growing out of the windows. Love this Ara
Thank you Danielle!! I had a hard time aging that little house but once it was done I was really happy with it too!
Omygosh! I was so happy to see Whitney there! Such a fun project for both of you!!
It was so fun to have her visit the studio!
I loved yours and Whitney's collaboration! Y'all make quite the dynamic duo! Great content, Ladies! 🙂
Thank you Joni! I had a lot of fun working with her on this one!
Sometimes, more is more, and this is one of those times! I love it Ara!
Thank you so much as always!
Lisa
I agree. It makes it more realistic, it can be surprisingly easy for spaces to get over flooded with stuff, but especially stores that always have new things coming in.
Thank you Lisa!! This was a VERY busy project compared to my usual but I am liking it for this one!
You and Whitney look like sisters stood next to each other.
I absolutely loved this video and I love how your toy shop came out it's so cool
Love the tiny mushrooms coming out of the windows of the tiny dollhouse, right next to the big mushroom coming out of the shop window, except that the shop is also a dollhouse.
Wow! What a great transformation! Fabulous - as always! As a retired children’s librarian, for me, 1865 means the publication of Alice in Wonderland.
I love how the aging really created the whole character of the box/scene! The green color for the furniture is terrific too!
I so relate to the thoughts of “should I really use this now since it’s so special? Maybe I should save this a later project!” And you’re so right - we need to use our stash! Hard for me to do sometimes!
So great to see you and Whitney together! Two of my favorite miniaturists!
The end result - including the back story - is really unique and wonderful! Thanks much! Kathleen
Lol yes that is the one! Thank you Kathleen! I am happy to report that at the end of the project I was VERY glad to have used the furniture I was hesitating about in the beginning. It is a mental fight some times to use the 'precious things'!
My reason is just so dumb, "if I use it, then I won't have it"😢 dumb subconscious😢
You and Whitney look like you could be sisters! Love the abandoned toy shop! I want to go rescue all of the toys.
It's interesting because we do have a weird family/friend connection outside of the mini world! We definitely enjoyed hanging out and talking about our mini obsession!
That storefront looks exactly like the antique store that used to be owned by Alex Archbold in Edmonton, Canada. His UA-cam channel is Curiosity Inc. He sold the building, but still buys and sells antiques with a look towards vintage toys. He even had similar shelving in his store. I love all the pieces you used in the store here. Youre so incredibly creative and talented. Its such a pleasure to watch your videos! And thanks for introducing usto another creator!!
Yeah! I was missing the abandoned stuff! I think the bear with the mushroom sticking out of his head is my favorite!
It was a great opportunity since they were Christmas ornaments before and I am glad I went for it lol!
I love how you used green (fav color!) and the ageing with the white paint is really effective on darker furniture. It looks like water stains. AND MOSSSSS YESSSS! So cool you two got to meet up! much love!
Whitney's nod to the 80th anniversary of D Day and the horror of Lone in WW 2 and your nod to Alice in Wonderland. So great, love them both.
I feel like this could be an episode of Doctor Who
That’s what I thought too!!!! 🤣🤣
I so enjoyed watching you put this all together! I was happy to see Whitney there, too! It looks PERFECT! Love all of the colors especially the mushrooms! 😉❤❤❤
Thank you Elizabeth! It was so fun to have her come visit the studio and hang out for a bit😊
I honestly feel like distressing and aging stuff is more fun than neat pristine builds. Its so fun to do washes and moss. I think aged projects end up looking more realistic that way.
Wowzer!!!!! This was a super fun tute to watch. You are so uber talented.
😊😊 Thank you! I am so glad you liked it!
Can I offer an easy tip for lettering? I used to work in VM and was forever installing lettering on walls. This makes the job go super fast…
1. You need a thin strip of paper.
2. Lay out the order of your letters.
3. Lay the strip under the letters ( so the paper touches the letters)
4. Make a small mark at the beginning and end of each letter. ( ,B,,O,,O,,K,)
5. Cut off any extra paper.
6. Match the first mark ( ,B ) to the last mark ( K, ) fold the paper…this gives you the center of the word.
7. This is now your lettering guide.
8. Where ever you want to place the letters, find the centers of that space.
9. Tape the guid just a “hair width” below where the lettering will be placed
10. Using the marks on the paper, pop the letters in place….the paper acts as a straight edge 💁♂️.
This trick has always helped me, especially when I had to do an entire store within a day 😵💫.
Hope this is helpful to someone out there!
Cheers 🧚♂️
You and Whitney in the same video is such a treat.
Just what the doctor ordered! I love how this toy shop turned out, Ara. Also, I geeked out to see you & Whitney together!! 😅
I geeked out too! lmao! It was fun working with Ara and we did a lot of giggling!
@@WhitneyLaBrie no joke, I still get star struck every time I see Ara 😊
It's been so fun to get to know Whitney! Zinthia, we will have to get her here sometime for one of our local mini events! ;)
Wow, it was so realistic looking! I could look at all the tiny details for hours continually discovering something new. Excellent job.
How cool that you could use your great-grandmother's miniature shelf (must run in the family)! 🥰 Merging the past and present... and possibly future? 😄 Mushrooms love the damp, so perhaps the inhabitants of the land should try fire to control the spores- although these are definitely not normal mushrooms! Great job, as always!
Hey you. I love this. Abandoned places prompt us to imagine what things must have been like. You want a story from it. (I am so enjoying your remodeled, very organized space. It's my thing).
Thank you, I am so glad you enjoyed it!!!😊 I agree about 'Abandoned places' I always want to know what happened🧐
Oh! man! I love it. So fun and whimsical while being mysterious as well! What a great use of just a ton of little things. I'm loving that green color scheme too. It really made the yellow mushrooms pop.
Your toyshop is so nice Ara. So many colors, but still...it is your style. And I'am always amazed how many details you put in your work. It should be normal for me to know that, I follow you so many years. But you still surprise me.
It is absolutely amazing! I love it. It is as busy as it needs to be. The mushrooms are great - in a bad way of course - so colorful, so devious and creepy. You are an inspiration. So creative. Thanks for sharing. Your videos are the best.
What a fun collaboration 😍 Both shops are amazing. And I love the stories they tell. The broken glass looks so real, I kept thinking you were going to cut yourself.😂 It was super fun to see Whitney in the Bentley House Studio. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽🥰❤️❤️
This toy shop breaks my heart! So many toys are contaminated!
Such a Cool project and Collaboration!! All the toys and the tiny train on the big mushroom, Casper our friendly Ghost 🤗 Good story!! All looks amazing!! Thanks and Greetings 👋
I absolutely love this toy shop
This is amazing! There is so much detail included. I love all of the toys and games and the mushrooms really look like they have taken over. I hope they stay in this one project and do not spread all over your craft room! 🤣
This is just delightful! The story writes itself as one looks through everything. It's one of those projects that you realize you see something new every time you look at it. Whitney's appearance was so fun LOL I love all the little things you exchanged. Stormy is definitely a vicious attack dog if you're terrified of a waggy-tailed fluffy lickey pup LOL So cute!
Haha, maybe the giant dogs are really there to clean up the place and their licks are the antidote to all the mushrooms. Perhaps Stormy just saved the place! Thank you Rachael! I am so glad you enjoyed all the details. It's a bit overwhelming to take it all in, but I am liking that part about it too!
Love the muschroom coming out the window ❤❤
Nailed it !!!! I made a Krampus workshop using your techniques, so fun.
That sounds amazing!!
Your abandoned toyshop looks great, I love it. Love the mushroom story too. Great video and so much fun to watch. Ánd very inspiring. Thanks! Love your channel ❤❤
Thank you, that means so much to me! I am so glad you liked everything!❤️
Nothing has ever made me want2 jump in front of a shrink ray just so i can explore it in first person like this one! Lol this is such a beautiful project, n whitney's items add such a wonderful variety of whimsy inside the shop 💕
I love how you tell a Story with only one scene. It's all just brillant 😚👌
This looks amazing! I'm obsessed with all the details. The price tags are such a great touch.
I love the watered down white paint on the black. It looks old and dry.
It's packed with so many things to see!
I'm the same way. I have this scarcity mindset where I don't want to use my minis. I'll push through as well and USE my stuff instead of just hoarding it.
Loved it and loved that you had an in person visitor ❤
Your grandma collected thimbles too?!:) My Grandma was an amazing hand quilter and had filled 2 large thimble shelves (similar to the size you have storing tiny items on your wall) Our family would always find special ones for her from thier travels.
She saw I fell in love with a little baby bear (complete with pacifier & pink diaper:)) in her collection & said it was to be mine after she passed away. She was true to her word and my baby bear has been safely kept 20+ years:)
Amazing … what a treat to watch you create!
Just amazing, as always, and I love how busy it is 😍🤩❣️!!! "The Day of the Spores" instead of "Triffids" 😂😅😆
Fantastic! I feel you could sit for hours just looking there is so much in there. Great collab the special delivery was an amazing idea.
Absolutely fabulous. Cheers Robyn ❤😊
Such an Adorable Room box! So Great to See this Collab!!! I really Love when you mentioned about saving miniatures for projects!
I love love love busy dollhouses. Incredible work. I love all the little details that bring this to life.
That is Amazing, I love the mushrooms, great idea to add the pieces of glass too, It really looks brill, Well done Ara 👍♥️
I love how your Toy Spore turned out! 😍🍄🧸 What a fun idea and so many fun details! So cool you could both meet up in person for the toy swap!! I would love to do a mini colab sometime but I live on the other side of the world 😂 Thank you for another wonderful and inspiring video! 😊
Love this! Especially the posters and mushrooms. What a great idea. ❤❤❤
I like the natural shine on the mushrooms
I absolutely love this.❤❤❤ I can't believe that you placed a microscopic price tag on every item! 😅😂 Good heavens.
Stash busting projects are called that for a reason. To get rid of the old stash, and collect more.
Ah I love this! Yes use that stash and collect more for sure!!!!
LOVE the term 'stash busting'. I will have to remember that!
This is so cool! I am so excited to see this collaboration with Whitney. I follow her channel as well and enjoy all her content as well as yours. Although there’s mushrooms present, I didn’t see any critters so I’d probably still come to the toy shop to shop because I love toys.😂 that was so cool that Whitney got to visit you in your studio. a special treat for both of you❤ Thanks for sharing !
I love this project ! You have such great ideas !
Thank you for distracting me from my greef for a while !
omg Ara this whole thing is amazing, the setup, the story, the look of it all! LOVE it
LOVE MOSS AND SHROOMS 😍❣️ IT LOOKS SO GOOD ARA!! SHROOM DOOM FOR REAL!! 😅🎉🎉🎉
That was awesome,amazing,thank you for sharing your talent with us,love the idea of the mushrooms.
How fun! I would have such a blast collaborating with both you and Whitney! I so look forward to your videos ~ your creativity abounds :). so glad to have both of you together on a project!!!!
This was absolutely wonderful. Love the spore invasion!
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you Pat!
This is beautiful! I would have difficulty aging your beautiful furniture and some of the toys! However your Mushroom Invaded Toy Store is Superb!
Omg!!! Loving the results!!!! Really cool collaboration!!! ❤😊❤
I love this project! I especially loved the bears with the mushrooms on top of their heads!🥰💖
Thank you! 😊 It was too good of a opportunity lol!
Feels so good getting a classic Ara abandoned build. ❤❤❤
I always get a little freaked out with the whole aging process, but 23:20 is the moment you had me. There's always a moment in your videos when I'm like, "There it is! She's locked down the look!" Loved the final result.
It looks magnificent! Beautiful attention to detail, Ara! 🍄
Ara, you have out-done yourself this time…amazing talent 😊
It came out looking amazing! 😍
Thank you!!😊
I love this. As much as I love your larger projects, I think your abandoned setting projects show even more of your ingenuity and creative spark because they don't have a previously known world behind them.
So enjoyed Ara. There's a 2008 film called The Ruins which plays on this killer plants thing, which your abandoned store made me think of. It's a fun bit of B-grade horror, especially if you enjoy B-grade movies about killer plants.
Absolutely gorgeous mama❤❤❤
This might be one of my favorite ones yet!
Such a cool concept for an abandoned toy shop! And sooo many mushrooms! Did you end up counting all the mushrooms used?
The more I think about it, it seems kinda dark and heavy. Like, what happened to the owner of the shop, after he opened the box? Who sent the box, and why? Did the sender know what would happen? And so on.
But that's the magic of dioramas like this one. It gets you thinking and your imagination going. Great job!
The first movie i can remember watching as a small child was a black and white movie called Attack of the Mushroom People. It was terrifying as a 4-6 year old. I watched it again as an adult and it was not good and not scary at all. This project made me think of that. Your mushrooms are a lot more realistic than the ones in the movie.❤
OMG I love this so much❤If I ever came across this shop, I would pray for permission from the protector ghost of the shop and then took one item back home with me. My love for toys is to big to leave them not being played.
That would be so hard to leave them behind! Depends on how worried you are about mushrooms sprouting up in your own home!
I lovvve that it feels/looks snug! The mushrooms really make my skin feel itchy haha they turned out great.
I don’t have the words to express how much I love it 😅💕 and what a wonderful surprise when Whitney popped up 😆 I wish more of us could meet in person 🤗🙏
Oh Ara! This was so much fun to watch your imagination unfold. I love toy stores and this came out so whimsical. I can easily get lost in all the detail you made. It was also a treat to see you and Whitney exchange minis!
Thank you Candi!! I appreciate it so much! It was fun to hang out with her in person for a little bit while she was in town!
I looks so amazing!
THIS is my favorite!!
I have that exact same "thing." "I shouldn't use this because I might need it for a future project." Then I realize. THIS IS THE FUTURE PROJECT. It's so odd. I think it's a fear that when you need something, it won't be there. Glad you are over-coming this odd thing. I love the store box. This will be fun.
Yes exactly!! I hope I can keep up that mindset and eventually have nothing left in my collection ;) Thank you!!
ok, that was very cool to watch! Beautiful!!! I watched Whitney's first and both so different but both so beautiful! I enjoyed this collab and Whitney gained a new subscriber, already one of yours lol! GREAT JOB LADIES!!
🎉I'm a big fan of whitney love her 🎉😊
Awe thank you my darling! I'm a big fan of you too! Ara was such a blast to collab with!
@@WhitneyLaBrie I bet it was so much fun xx
I had a blast as well😊
YAY! I just spotted something that looked like "Rock'em Sock'em Robots" from when I was a kid, and of coure Operation game! Way too adorable!
Fantastic work as usual. I can smell the mould through my phone screen 😆
Wonderful to see you back after your family break, Ara. I hope you feel refreshed and had a lovely time with your family. 💕X
Ps. Would pigeons have got in through the broken window, tried to nest but the killer toadstools/mushrooms got them all. 😲
At first I thought the "giant" mushrooms were making the miniature look like a miniature or like a child's toy that had been abandon...but with the addition of the notices it brings it back to a real place that has been miniatured.
15:39 that was such a cute reveal! loving the video :)
That was so fun seeing Whitney pop up ❤😊.
Lol yes! It worked out so well that she was in town! It's always great to hang out with fellow mini people when possible😊
Very creative and cute. lol It really is too. My favorite piece is the dollhouse in the broken window that have mushrooms growing out of it as well. Have a great day
I loved it from the moment I saw all the shop furniture. It's so whimsical!
A delight!
That's brilliant! So detailed and I love the weathering. 👏🏻👏🏻
ah that was so much fun to watch :) I keep seeing in my mind a ghostbuster=mushroom buster figure standing in front of the store with a huge anti spore gun LOL
I want to thumbs up this video 1000 times! Awesome work!
Brilliant,work,the art is in the details!
This is my first video of yours that I have watched.
Now,this was a competition,a friendly competition,for sure.
This was a very interesting challenge!
Both of you are dedicated to the art of detail.
There is ,for me a winner by a hair.
Before I say,I have been a fan of Whitney for quite some time,but lest you think that I am prone to favoritism,Whitney’s last challenge with Queen City Minis,the cyberpunk challenge,I think Whitney just barely fell short.
This challenge was a brilliant one,an abandoned toy store,what a great idea!
I think that the details for each of the stories that you wanted to tell were beautifully rendered.
BUT
Whitney’s just seemed to pay attention to details that were historically accurate,versus being able to create a diorama that fits into a totally fictional scenario.
In this case,although brilliantly conceived and executed on your part,well,it came across more like little shop of horrors.
Basically,the win,in my opinion,by Whitney on this one wasn’t based on talent,as you are both on par,but based on detail that commanded detail,versus pure story value.
I think that you are both incredible,talent supreme😌
This is fantastic! I love how creative you are. Adding the mushrooms to that made it way more interesting than just a toy store. t's so cool to look at a thing and ask questions about what happened. Using spackle on the foil is a technique I'm definitely going to use. And I loved seeing how many different old toys were mini. Thank you, this was an awesome video.
As usual, your attention to detail takes this from wow to WOW! It was amazing to me how the green paint with yellow decorations changed the disparate pieces of furniture into a unified set. Your story makes the whole thing come together. I even went back to watch your final detail shots again. Is there a story behind your single shoe? Curiosity may not have done in the Cheshire Cat, but it certainly naga at my mind.
Love it!! Love your abandoned miniature projects.