Kitchen .

 My kitchen is not based on a miniature scale. All the items in the kitchen are made by recycled items that I found in my own kitchen like plastic bottles, cardboard boxes etc. except few things which were purchased. 

Some tips and tutorial about my kitchen.

The AGA cooker is made out of a cardboard box and then I pasted scrap book paper, used the lids of the bottle caps to resemble the cooker so that the lids can be opened.

The kettle is made out of the lid of a creamer and then I painted red with an acrylic paint but the paint did not stick on this plastic that well so I left it as it is since it gave an effect of antique look, it feels as though the kettle is used from many years and its all rusted. The handle is made with a card stock and the bottom of the kettle is made out of cardboard .

The oak dresser is also inspired by Jean Nisbett 's   ' The beginners guide for Dolls house hobby ' and Linda Rogers country dough crafts .

 I have used two gift boxes to make the dresser . The mugs are made out of card stock and later it is painted white .

Take a card stock

Cut a piece of rectangle and make a tube 

then cut a small circle for the base and glue at the bottom of the mug.

For the handle cut a length of small rectangle and glue the handle on the mug.

If preferred the mugs can be painted.

The plates and the serving blows are from this moazaik appetizer set. They are plastic and I bought these from a grocery store called Kroger . Then I painted blue with acrylic paint. Mine doesn't look vintage I just wanted a simple design so I went for checks. 

The side table was made with balsa wood and then I painted with acrylic paint. 

The groceries in the basket are just from the recycled plastic bottles I cut them into the size that I wanted and then glued the bottom with a piece of cardboard. 

The packets are made out of a paper bag from a grocery store and then I filled the packets with the cotton wool and then sealed.

The tall glasses and the containers are made with these tube shot glasses that I found from the dollar market. I cut these glasses using a kitchen knife  to the size I wanted  and I used a piece of cardboard for the bottom and large buttons for the lids. If you are trying this try at your own risk , the success rate depends on how well you will be able to cut this. Also tiny cracks can appear and sometimes it can even break.

The kitten and the basket of vegetables and the basket are knitted from ' Jeangreenhowe's  books. 

The tomatoes are made out of salt dough and then painted with water colors.

These below things were purchased from Dollar tree.  The bamboo baskets were purchased from a thrift store.

The photograph on the wall was made using the self adhesive tags that I bought from the dollar 

market. 

I cut a picture of a teapot from a greeting card pasted on a card stock and then placed the self adhesive tag on the card stock .

 

I had a lot of fun making this  scene , I hope this post was helpful. 

Until next time 

Good bye ! 

A kitten in the kitchen .

A kitten in the kitchen.

Greetings friends,

Recently I was planning for a scene and I wanted the scene to be a dollhouse scene and also about my kitty Magstar. When ever I am  cooking  my little kitty sits in the kitchen most of the times. I love his company . So this blog is dedicated to my sweetie. Also among all the rooms in the doll's house,  kitchen is my favorite. Especially I love vintage kitchen. I was born and brought up in India in a house which was 100 years old . It was a two storie house with 30 people living under one roof with one kitchen and a bathroom. It was a very old fashioned kitchen there was no sink but in a corner of the kitchen there was a tap   And a small area to wash the dishes. My mother has cooked in a coal stove, kerosene stove, a small electric stove which use to take for ever to cook and for so many people until late 80's when gas stoves started becoming common in India. We really don't want to go back to those olden days life style where ladies of the house really struggled and worked hard to pull through day to day's life with outa microwave or refrigerator or a washing machine etc , but it is always fascinating to know how it was back then , so I wanted to make a scene using an old fashioned kitchen as a background and my kitty in that kitchen , and well it finally turned out like this :) 

  

It took me longer than I expected to make this scene but I am quite happy with the end results. Recently I went and became a member in a public library near my house and under crafts section first thing I saw was  'A  beginner's guide to the doll's house hobby ' by ' Jean Nisbett ' . 

I was so excited since I am very much interested in miniature and doll's house hobby off late. I borrowed this book and some scenes really inspired me to take this hobby very seriously. The above scene is inspired by this book. This is based on 1930s-1940s kitchen in Britain.  My kitchen is inspired by the kitchen below. 

According to the author 

( in this well- used 1930s kitchen with the evidence of recent baking , baskets of groceries and fruit have been delivered by the Grocer's boy . Tea towels have been hung to air over the Aga, on a rack that is worked by pulleys .) 

(The above useful information and the picture is from 'Jean Nisbett's '  'A  beginner's guide to the doll's house hobby'. )

This is a single - oven Aga. The traditional Aga colors are white, dark green, red , cream or deep blue .

This above information is not my information it is by the author Jean Nisbett. She is well known as the leading British writer on Doll's houses and miniatures. 

I have included some tips and tutorial on this in y next post.