All the small things

Ok here is the result of my new hobby building miniatures.

This one was for Iris. My favorite part is the tiny, tiny purse.

This one is a book nook. Book nooks are more expensive and easier to make than the other style of miniature kits.

This is a squirrel house and was my favorite to make, I think.

It is so tiny! I speckled those eggs myself. It felt insane.

This fucking bake shop… I fucking hate it. It’s trash. Burn it down. I lost my mind over so many things in this shitty fucking bake shop.

I do like the bread case, and the coffee machine, and the tea pots, though. And the rolling pin. A lot of these things were fun to make but there was just too much that was awful.

These wire things… there were so many things made out of wire and it was so fiddly and difficult to work with. (Making the oven out of aluminum tape was fun though.)

These chairs made me fucking lose my mind. I could not get them to stick and finally I got them to stick and then one of them exploded on me into shards of misformed wire. I wasn’t sure I had enough wire to make it again so I made it last and by then I was much more adept at working with wire. Guess which one was made first?

This was the first one I did. I learned with this one that the right tools are really important. I had 0 special tools with this one. Everything was constructed with just my stupid fingers.

If you are reading this and think you want to try this, first of all, you should, it’s really fun. I’ve been doing this at night while watching TV instead of looking at my phone or playing games on my phone and it’s improved my life quality. It also shuts my brain up, which is something I really look for in this life. I would start out on a book nook. The one I made is by Cutebee and I’d go for that brand (a Rolife should be fine too).

Secondly, the right tools are the following, in order of importance: tweezers, a tiny glue bottle, an X-acto knife, a cutting mat, tiny pliers, a tiny ruler, tiny wire cutters. I also bought a cheap plastic cafeteria tray so I can work on these while I watch TV on the couch.

You can buy a set of tweezers, an X-acto knife, and wire cutters, along with some files and a few other useful things, on Amazon in a kit for $8. A cutting mat is $5. I upgraded to a nicer X-acto knife. The tiny bottles of glue and pliers I got at Hobby Lobby (I love Hobby Lobby SORRY). A lot of the kits give you supplies that are mostly just OK. The glue in some of them is excellent. I think it might just be rubber cement though?

Everyone on the www acts like Rolife is the best brand but the Rolife ones make me the most insane and are cheap in strange ways. (Like the paper they use is so shitty? why?) My favorite brand is Flever. Flever comes with better-than-usual supplies but no glue. There are elements to the Flever kits that are so, so tiny and feel so, so tweaker-like and I just love it.

I am now making one for Scott. Shh it is a surprise.

Also I like this post I saw on Reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/miniatures/comments/1bdh6sm/mini_bookshelf/