Category Archives: accessorizing

Posted on 07 December, 2015

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Astolat Castle Grand Library

Accessorizing Music & Sewing Rooms, Offices & Libraries

Susan’s Note:

As in her two other articles on making your miniature rooms look real, Julia Morrison provides an excellent guide for the basic items you will need to accessories the 4 rooms in the title. Of course, you have decisions to make before buying the items listed. In what era does your project take place? Social status: Aristocracy or We-The-People? Are you recreating a memory, copying a painting or photograph? What’s your budget? Read Julie’s article for some ideas.

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Posted on 12 November, 2015

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Classy New Yorker Shopping Bags

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Bloomy Brown Bags

Famous Name Shopping Bags

The holiday shopping season is upon us and the Lady of your 1:12 scale dollhouse talking about a trip to New York to pick up a few gifts. Make sure she goes to the “right” Fifth Avenue stores.    

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Gucci Miniature Shopping Bag

All shopping bags have handles and removable tissue paper peeking out the top. Most measure 1” x 1.25.” Some, like the Tiffany bag, are slightly smaller in keeping with sizes in the real world. You can buy individually, mix and match in any quantity and any famous-name store you like.

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Christian Louboutin Miniature Shopping Bag

If you don’t see your favorite trendy boutique, say in Soho or the Village, I’ll custom make a shopping bag for you at no additional cost, if I can find the logo,.

Follow this link to my Etsy shop “shopping bag” page for famous-shopping bags I have in stock.

Susan

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Posted on 28 September, 2015

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This is a working replica of the Sparton Model 557 “Sled” Radio by Walter Dorwin Teague – $5,900

Art Deco Miniatures Anyone?

Here’s a great resource for images, from which you can make patterns for the accessories you will want to make yourself. The 1stdibs website sells very pricey originals and replicas of designer products. Shop away, if the price tags don’t throw you.

For artisans, it is a treasure trove of clear images of great products from which to make patterns of pieces in any scale. Most have pictures from multiple angles. The top navigation bar has these tabs: Furniture, Fine Art, Jewelry & Watches, Fashion, Collections, Magazine.

The radio pictured is the Sparton Model 557 “Sled” Radio, designed by Walter Drown Teague. Price: $5,900. Does it work? Not necessarily. The description includes the statement that ?this prime example of a highly sought after Art Deco streamline style of radio, with ‘speed lines.’ is sold as a decorative piece.?

Ah, well. We all have to accessorize. Still, this website is a great resource.

Susan

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Categories: accessorizing, art deco


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Posted on 27 August, 2015

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Coffee Table Diaries: Stacked – 3 ways to arrange accessories over the rug

Contemporary Accessories can be made from so many items. Wall art can be a piece of jewelry, like a brooch. Or Mod Podge magazine pictures or posters onto foam core and frame them. Twist Fimo into a piece of sculpture, worthy of standing on a plinth in a MacMansion vestibule. The possibilities are only limited by your imagination.

Coffee tables offer space for books, flowers and decorative pieces. To keep objects orderly and pleasing to the eye, use trays to group similar items, such as ceramics and pillar candles. Try clustering candles of different sizes and colors in one tray and bowls or vases in another. Jazz up a stack of books by topping it with a vessel filled with found objects.

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