DIY Fireplace, Faux Flowers, Tile & More • Miniature CARDBOARD Room Box
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Playlist of videos for this project in order:
1. Here's where you can learn how to make your own cardboard room box/shadow box in 1:12 scale:
• EASY 1:12 dollhouse mi...
2. Cardboard Room Box floors, cereal box walls and tin ceiling
• DIY Ceiling, Walls & F...
3. Egg carton stones & grout technique for hearth
• DIY Egg Carton Stone F...
4. DIY Fireplace, tiles, faux flowers, painted chair+
• DIY Fireplace, Faux Fl...
5. DIY hearth broom, bear trap, bellows & peg shelf
• DIY hearth broom, bear...
6. DIY snowshoes from scratch
• DIY miniature Snowshoe...
7. Mini kettle made from a bead
• DIY miniature kettle o...
8. DIY potatoes, corner shelf, milk can made from trash, coal bucket
• DIY Miniature accessor...
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In this video, I'm building a fireplace, creating faux flowers from moss, painting a chair, and accessorizing my cardboard room box. It's only 3 inches deep but it looks deeper due to a forced perspective illusion. There's enough room for a fireplace, antique looking stove, a chair and lots of accessories.
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This tiny wooden peace is a butter mold...it's beautiful from the beginning on, but even more after your modifications. ❤️
Thank you so much! People were so fancy with their butter back in the day!
I think your fancy carved piece is a butter mold. The other mystery item kind of looks like part of a butter churn.
Thank you! I think you're right.
Hi there, the decorative wood piece is indeed a butter mold. The other piece is actually a wooden potato masher from a time or area where metal was too precious to be used for such a mundane task.
@@phoebegraveyard7225 Phoebe, you're exactly right. My mom had a real one that looked just like that, inherited from my great-grandmother.
I’ve been watching this channel all freaking day. I even just listened while I did chores. Great content, thanks for sharing your knowledge!
Awesome! Thank you! I love binge watching. It's a great thing
Happy to have found you in my feed! A miniaturist who hasn't done a diorama yet, I find many of your ideas & techniques just invaluable, especially in the order of how not to do things! A suggestion for leafy/grassy areas instead of flocking is kitchen herbs--several shades of greens--and navy beans make authentic-looking eggs...
Navy beans as eggs is an adorable idea! I have used herbs as greenery but then I bought flocking at my local hobby store. I've seen people use sawdust as flocking too. You can water down some paint and mix it into the sawdust, then let it dry.
Your attention to shadow really adds depth, and I'd never thought of doing it before.
It's one of my new favorite tricks. It worked really well in the abandoned lab project.
Pretty cool for sure. You asked about the purple color on those dried flowers, NO that is not natural they were dyed to hold the color. Real ones turn brownish. Thank you for sharing. Have a great day and Merry Christmas
Thank you for the info! ')
The mold is actually meant to be a butter mold, but in the scale it's in, it would probably work better as a short bread mold.
your very talented I going to build a miniature cabin and use some of your ideas well done
Go for it! I had so much fun with this project.
I love how it all came together. I like the way you detail every tiny piece. My favorite is the chair. So that’s what that hair straightener is for lol. Have a great weekend and thank you 💐
I keep my hair straightener at my desk for ironing fabric, so yeah. That's what it's for 😂
I'm really excited to see it finished. I still need to make food and accessorize the stove and fill a wall. I'm thinking of making a shelf with pegs and hanging clothing. It'll be great.
Love all that you did in this episode. I think the unidentified item hanging on the back right is a potato masher (I have several antique ones in real life). I'm going to paint my chair like you did ~ it looks great!
Thank you! That could very well be.
Have fun! I really do like how the chair turned out. Next time, I'll paint the gold before the black. Oops!
Recently found your channel and I’ve been binge watching 😋 I love your work of course but also really enjoyed the style of voiceover and music choice & volume in the vid. Thanks 😊
Yay! Thank you! Voiceover is the worst part for me since I can't multitask while I do it 😆
I'm rewatching this because I'm taking one of my diorama characters and putting her in a witchy little cottage....I actually started soon enough that even I have a chance to get it done for Halloween and actually put photos up, I know I always intend to but I think I might do it this time lol...when I was telling you about the butter mould thingie I forgot to say that polystyrene is what you call styrofoam, I think Chrysnbon just use a different form of polystyrene because I was looking at that last kit I had. I was having a nosey for the trap and stuff to put inside the little house, other than pumpkins lol! I loved this project so am off to shamelessly plagiarise your ideas😂
That sounds so cute! Have fun
It’s amazing! I love all the details you create. Can’t wait to see what else you have planned for this adorable room box.
Thank you! I'm also really excited for a goose egg miniature I'll be working on.
You are so good agig things I am very impressed
Thank you so much 😀
Hi Shyra, I Love watching and listening to you work.😊❤ Have you ever seen the mudlarkers here on YT called Kit and Caboodlers? They have a miniatures channel you might like. :)
I have! They're great. Their videos are so soothing.
I don’t make miniatures but I just love to watch your videos
Your imagination is amazing
Thanks Karen from Florida 🌴💕
I appreciate that!
Wow that's a lot of stuff in one video. I don't think I've ever seen a cast iron stove placed inside a fireplace hearth. A rifle over a hot stove, Just make sure that it's never loaded!! I would think maybe it'd be on the wall above the mantle. I think in my perfect imagination house in real life, I'd want both a cast iron stove, AND a fireplace with one of those swinging cast iron arms that holds a real Dutch Oven so you can cook over the fire. Real dutch ovens have recessed lids, to hold the hot coals on the top of the lid to create the "heat from above" that's needed for the oven baking effect. So you could make a soup or stew, and a loaf of bread. I forget what those things are called, that swing over. So you can tend to the pot, then swing it back over the fire.
I've only seen those real Dutch ovens when camping with Boy Scouts, and they're sold at the Bos Scout stores where they have uniforms and stuff. I picked up a box of recipes for Dutch ovens there too. One time we were camping and supposed to be having Lasagna, but the man who did the shopping heard Ricotta cheese, and thought it was Cottage cheese. So it didn't turn out right. It was like lasagna flavored soup. The guys didn't know what to do, and looked at me just because I'm female they thought I could cook. I was able to season it so it tasted right, just needed a ladle to serve it.
My state is trying to make gas heating outlawed. Trying to force everyone to use electric for everything, but then turning off the electricity because there isn't enough. It's just stupid upon stupid. If you have gas heating, hot water and stove, you won't freeze or starve when the power is cut. My only gas right now is the hot water heater, but even that, if it's too cold I could warm up in a hot shower.
I didn't remember that the floor was sloped too. Those tiles on the back turned out really great. Good choice since they can withstand Kiln temperatures.
Lasagna flavored soup 😆 That actually sounds really good...
When I went to the beach over the summer, I picked through dried seaweed on the beach and found a bunch of tiny mussel shells. I'll definitely be filling one of the pots with "water" and mussels. I should make some bread. That's a good idea.
Thank you!
@@queencityminis uh oh, now you've got me thinking about the delicious clam chowder served in a big round bread bowl at the coast. My car isn't running though, so no danger of getting there. Something about fall always makes me want some clam chowder. I don't think I've ever eaten mussels. Mmmm, sitting outside in my fisherman's cable knit sweater with the sea air making my hair turn into a frizzball and having bread and soup till I pop is just a whole vibe. If I get there at the right time, I can walk out on the piers as the fishing boats are coming in and pick up live crabs. Or since I'm lazy I go to a nearby restarant and just order some cooked cleaned crab. It takes awhile, but it's a once in a while treat when it's in season.
@@queencityminis If you do make lasagna soup, break up the noodles into smaller pieces first. Those giant long noodles are a bit unwieldy and won't stay in the ladle
Wow. That's a lot of stuff in one reply.
@@tinynina76 😄
I love this! You did a amazing job💜💜💜
Thank you so much!!
What is this magical universe that is your local dollhouse store?? I could probably come
Out financially ahead if I fly there to shop from Los Angeles!
www.earthntree.com
The prices are amazing
Butter mold, potato masher and the scoop are your three little wood tools. Awesome work!
Thank you 😊
The purple flowers are Baby's Breath dyed purple. They're normally white.
Oh yeah! I didn't recognize them at all dyed
Oh my goodness so adorable! Great way to use extra accessories that you love but don't have anywhere else to display. Thanks for the inspiration! :)
You're welcome! I'm excited to complete the other half of the room and the stove top. I collected tiny mussels from the beach to fill the pot with and I'll be making some food.
I love your fireplace way better than the one I made.😊
I think I’m going to have to give your way a try.👍
Please do! It was so much fun 😊
What is the tool called to cut the coffee stirrers please do you think amazon will sell them.a previous lady said she got hers in dollar store but I'm 🇬🇧 don't have dollar store hobby lobby etc
Hi! They're called miter shears. I got them on Amazon. Buy a set with replaceable blades. Mine can't be replaced and the blades are dull now.
Wow, the tile looked great after you enhanced it! Love the look you achieved in the box..thanks for sharing..
Thank you! This was a fun one. I love bigger projects like this with multiple mini tutorials.
So cool!! I love seeing your process, it's very inspiring.
-also I think that other wooden mystery tool is a potato masher
That makes a lot of sense. Thanks!
And crushing thing like pepper corns etc
Awww❗️I found the first part of your 6/3 video! Thanks 🤩
Enjoy! I should've mentioned in the video I listed all the videos in order
Love watching your videos. Mesmerizing
Thank you very much!
I love this little display. I especially like all of your techniques to age stuff. And using the hair iron on the fabric is a great way to get little fabrics straight or creased. 🙂
It's such a great hack! Hair straighteners heat up so fast and you don't need a heat safe area to iron on.
The mystery tool is a pummel. It's for crushing foods like potatoes
Thank you! That makes a lot of sense
The purple dried flowers are indeed dyed
I think the carved wooden piece is a butter mold
I think you're right! I found something very similar on Google. That's very fancy.
Yes, that's what I was going to say too.
I'm pretty new to your channel but I have loved everything you do. 💕
Thank you so much! I'm glad you're enjoying it.
Excellent tutorial with instructions that can be used in many situations.
Glad it was helpful! Thank you 😊
Late to the game I know but can anyone tell me what kind of small hand drill that is?
Pin vise or hand drill?
What is the container you use for the chalk pastels, a pill holder?
I got it when I bought caviar beads for decorating fingernails
A potato masher, or early day agitator for doing laundry, and doing your wash
That sounds about right. Doing laundry is a lot easier these days
For a fireplace I like to take cheap picture frames and cut them to size.
That's such a good look. Maybe I'll make a tutorial video showing others how to do it
Wow I love how this room box turned out. Fabulous job!
Thanks so much! 😊
I have a rocking chair that looks almost identical to that chair. 😀
That's so cool! I wish Chrysnbon offered this chair as a rocker. Now I feel tempted to try to modify one of the kits.
Oh my goodness! Why are you using the Reference Guide book as a weight? I've tried getting that book several years ago. The lowest price (rounded) that I found, was about $900! Don't damage it!! No, no!
Oh dear! I got it for $50 on eBay. Definitely not cheap but not $900 either. It's a great guide.
Wheat is the Reference Guide referencing?
@@releasingendorphins232 It's a guide to identify various signatures and maker's marks from miniature artisans.
It's a butter mold
You really did a great job of this! I love all the details but especially the hanging elements and the chair. The bowl of eggs on the chair is such a realistic detail, as though the lady of the house had to leave the kitchen in a hurry to chase after her kids and the dog getting inot some mischief. Always love to see how you modify things to make them suit your build!
Thank you so much for your thoughtful comment 🙂 I do love to make a room look lived-in. Little Gretchen's Workshop is an expert with that for sure!
This was Lovely and So well done! Excellent choices from your collections too! I Love the Rifle redo and the speckled eggs alot! Kitchens are always so much fun, the possibilities are endless! Great video I'm looking forward to the next one!
Thank you so much!
The mystery tool at 12:14 looks like a sauerkraut tamper to me.
That's such a specific use but I love sauerkraut so I can get behind that. Thank you!
I love how this has come together, I especially love the dried flowers and the chair, the gold flower detail on the back finished it off nicely. Can’t wait to see what you create next 😊
Thank you so much, Gina!
If you put red under the gold, that also tones it down. Thanks for making these videos.
Ooh! That's a really cool idea. I've never seen anyone do that.
Great ideas! Wonderful work
Thank you so much 💕
It's a bitter mold we have them ireland
If my butter looked that fancy, I wouldn't want to eat it 😆
I love how this is coming together...Im also a bit envious of the bundles of wood trim you got from the dollhouse store, Oh the many creations that could be made with those!!!!
I know! I'm so lucky I live near a dollhouse store. I have FOMO right now wondering what may be there that I'm not buying 😆
I can completely understand that! Heck I don't even live remotely anywhere near a dolls house store and I'm 100% certain I'm missing out on bargains and treasures! Thank God for online shopping lol
@@nessiemonstercrafts I've gotten lots of great things on eBay. I love lots of used miniatures. I've also gotten lots of great crafting materials on the sidewalk during my morning walk. They sweep the streets for spring, summer and fall. I'm a bit disappointed 😆
Those chairs are about $250 a piece
They're very beautiful. That makes sense.
That mould looks like Chinese uses it to make mid-autumn festival’s moon cakes
True. Thank you!
I thought it was a mold for making soap. 🤔
Looks like a butter mold.
Thank you 😊
Fantastic 🤯Love it!
Thank you!
You really are very skilled and so creative…I love everything you’ve done here especially the chair…thank you.x
Thank you very much!
Je suis déçue car le poële n'a pas été créé mais acheté
I like to mix store bought items with lots of handmade items as well. Maybe I'll make a stove someday, but this one was perfect for the project.
it looks like a butter mold
Bingo! Thank you
Nice work, precise and precious. I love your beautiful bouquets.
Thank you for sharing. A thumbs up and an additional subscriber.
Greetings from France 🇫🇷
Thank you! I appreciate that. I'm working on the other half of this room box now. I love how it's turning out.
Its a butter mould
Thank you 🧈
wow .I learn many technique in this vdo .How to paint a item - different item have different way to paint and think .I am making kitchen part too(simple version). There are many details(like more than 30 items to add) Thanks for this VDO . I will re watch and copy some of your items to put in mine .
Thank you so much! Have fun with your project.
Just found your videos and have looked a few of them already. The wooden square thing is a butter mold. To make a block of butter looks more beautiful. The other thing what you don't know is a "stamper"(that is a Dutch word, don't know the English) They used it when they wash the clothes by hand. In a big bucket (teil in Dutch) or a very big pan, they cooked the clothes in soap-water. Because it was hot, they needed something to turn and push the clothed down. That was the wooden thing. Not for making butter, you have a buttermaker at the floor in your room.
That makes so much sense! Thank you for sharing.
What is the name of the metal tool you are using to cut the small pieces of wood with?
Miter shears. I got it on Amazon. I wish I had gotten a different tool though. Bentley House Minis miter shears have replaceable blades. The blades on mine aren't replaceable and they've become really dull.
@@queencityminis Thanks for letting me know. I don't know what your financial situation is, but if you don't have a wet stone to sharpen your blade and/or you don't want to use a wet stone, Amazon is currently selling one with 2 extra blades.
@@rlwhite55 I do have a wet stone I got from Harbor Freight. I got it to use like a 1-2-3 block to weigh things down but maybe I'll learn how to use it to sharpen the blades. Thank you
This came out super cute! You cack me up with your commentary sometimes!...and you definitely gave that cheap dollar tree moss a glow up!...🤣🙌🏾
Haha thank you 😆
Wonderful 💡
Many thanks :)
Watching your video was Most Enjoyable! I will be making a mini kitchen very soon and want to make a fireplace surround for the stove so watching how you made yours has given me the courage to try!
And when it comes to aging techniques you certainly know your stuff! 👍👍
Thank you so much!
Go for it! I suggest you watch Little Gretchen's Workshop as well. Her videos have tons of information and how to get started making miniatures. She also shows her mistakes and you don't even see or notice them in the finished project.
I love it! I used to do miniatures. I had 21 doll houses. Now i just have all the accessories. Large bins full! I wish there was a mini club or something around here. Maybe someone could use them.
What state do you live in? Maybe there's am IGMA guild nearby. They always need things for their auctions. You could also sell the miniatures.
Sooo pretty 💛
Thank you!
I have a miniature coal scuttle. I went outside to the flower beds. I found little bits of coal that were used when my great grandparents built my house in 1905. I absolutely adore your attention to detail. You could be a Set designer for movies.
Very cool!
You're too kind! Thank you 😊
You’re very lucky to be near a dollhouse store because there aren’t that many of them. I’ve searched the internet for stores that sold dollhouse supplies, and/or miniatures. Unfortunately I found that there aren’t that many, and none near me.
I am SO lucky to live near a dollhouse store, especially such an incredible store. It must be one of the biggest and best in the country. earthntree.com
❤❤❤❤❤❤ Espectacular
Thank you
Looks good.
Thank you! I added a lot more detail in later videos.
Oh my. You are truly a gem. You have captured my heart. I love it all. Even the beautiful rifle hanging under the hearth.
Thank you ❣️
I love it
Thank you! I really can't believe it's made of cardboard.
Thanks!
My pleasure :)
Love!
Thank you 😊
AMEI🕰🪑😍🫖☕ OBRIGADA
Thank you 😊
Yes, the carved piece is a butter mold. The round one is a grain pestle for pounding your own flour.
Thank you :) Now I wish we still had fancy butter 😆
I do like your style, and especially using what you have, you are inspiring, thank you☺
Thank you! I appreciate that
I love that you jam so many techniques into one video. I learn at least one thing from every one of them. Thank you!
Thank you! I love specific feedback like this :)
So happy I found you! Mad skills, girl!
Yay! Welcome. Thank you
This turned out so pretty. I love the gun after you painted it. Looks way more realistic.
Thank you! I'm really really happy with how it turned out. I kept the scope, of course, and added it to my Bit Box so I'm sure it'll make an appearance in a future project.
👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
Thank you!
You are so talented. The best thing you have taught me is how to put shadows under and behind things.thank you
Thank you! I came up with the idea to add shadows accidentally. I added too much aging and tried to wipe it away, but there was a black shadow under a cabinet. Then I realized everything needs shadows 😆
your wooden mystery object is probably a gingerbread mold.
That sounds adorable! Thank you for sharing
This is so much fun watching this on the play list.👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼 🎁🕯🌟🕯🎁
Yay! Thank you! Binge watching miniature content is good for your soul.
Hello Shyra, the little wooden mold seems to be a mold for butter. You can still find old ones in Europe. I saw the butter made by hand when I was a child, more than 50 years ago (glups!) and they use molds like that.
And sorry, I don't know if someone else has already told you, I don't have the patience to read all the comments ;)
Bravo for your work, and a big thank you for your quite and very interesting videos :)
Thank you so much for sharing! The room box has a butter churn in it as well. Maybe the owner of the house has a dairy farm? Or sells fancy butter? 😆 I love when miniatures tell a story.
@@queencityminis yes, I think it was a dairy farm. It was in a small village in the country. They also sold fruit pies, but it was very strange because it didn't look like a city store at all (and the butter didn't taste like city butter either). I also remember that their churn was a lying barrel, fixed on an axle, and that we kids could turn the crank :)
Thanks to you too for the memories that come back :)
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I'm working on wrapping this project up. I'm making food for the stove top
i would love videos about glue tricks and paint tricks
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This is old, but isn't a paint technique video
I was wondering when you'd get back to this one. Your painting and aging made such a difference. Did you see Little Gretchen's video where she mixed a bit of rubbing alcohol with her acrylic paint? I thought the effect was great for aging small things. I think Jennifer Adams is right about the one carved piece being a butter mold. I think the other looks like wooden pestle to be used with a bowl instead of a mortar. Hmm...
Thank you so much for your thoughtful comment. Aging is definitely an essential stage in something like this. I plan to take it even further by adding dust to the mantle and some dust bunnies and dirt along the edges of the room!
I watch all of Little Gretchen's videos, so yes! I love her techniques.
I also think it's a butter mold. That's a whole lot of butter. The other thing is probably a pestle. That makes sense.
I watched this all the way through and was disappointed to see it finish. I'm subscribed and am looking forward to seeing all your videos.
Awww thank you! There's more to come for this project when I complete the other side and add the food to the top of the stove.
Here's another project I did. It's start to finish. ua-cam.com/video/uYm5I3AoONo/v-deo.html
Just amazing as usual x
Thank you 💖
@@queencityminis your so welcome 🥰
5:00 I just learned what a bed warmer was from an episode of Bewitched 🧙♀️ 😊
I never watched Bewitched. I bet I'd love it
@@queencityminis sometimes the people/witches are shrunk down to about 1:12 scale so you probably would 😂
I love how you add shadows under objects. It's so clever.
Thank you!
Thank you for some smashing tips!
You're so welcome!
This is a wonderful channel! I’ve been trying to get more relaxing videos into my recommended ones lately, and your voice is so soothing. I’ve only watched a couple of your videos but they’re all stunning so far!
Also, the bed warmer resembles (to me at least) an antique waffle iron- very fitting for a kitchen scene!
So many more videos to watch! Enjoy
That's so true
The butter mold the scoop and potatoes mashed are so cute
I agree. I was never sure what I'd do with them since they're pretty big for 1:12 scale. Hanging them on the wall was perfect 👏
The mold looks like it’s possibly a butter mold. I just wanted to tell you, your attention to detail is amazing. I love your videos
Thank you so much 😀
Your name is so ironic because tomorrow I'm releasing a video showing how to make a miniature bonsai tree.
@@queencityminis How funny. My favorite things to make and I've made plenty of them over the years. Many years ago I sold them all over the world. I always enjoy seeing others techniques for doing them so I'll look forward to seeing the video. I'm about to start making them again to use in a miniature bonsai stand scene. :)
binge-watching and enjoying all the content
So much fun!
I like the technique used. Nice job.
Thank you! I appreciate it.