Covid is a hell of a drug. I was so incredibly bored that I started this model, with no plan - it's mostly made of scraps of cardboard from one of those little paper model kits, and a bunch of fabric scraps I have lying around.

One of the earliest models I did! I live near Chateau Chillon (the inspiration for The Prisoner of Chillon, a Lord Byron short story), and the "dungeon" is really impressive. I'm really proud of the pillory - the top actually moves!

I made this after I moved away (well, went away) for my last year of university, right after finally losing hope that we'd be back in classrooms that year. It probably shows in how dark the whole thing turned out, but Ottawa winters are probably not a *great* thing to be fully on your own in.

Springtime inspires spring picnic minis, I guess? I was mostly doing knitting and bookbinding between these projects because it was my last semester so things were a bit crazy, and this was a nice break from it. (I'm especially proud of the basket!)

This apothecary was inspired by one of my walnuts, which was a similarly witchy little shelf. It was mostly an excuse to make things that are tiny, but at a bigger scale than my previous ones to give myself a chance to make more detailed minis.

This was the first one I did after I moved back home, and it shows- it's kind of an updated version of the first one I ever made, just in pink for a bit of variety. Most of the furniture is very Ikea-ish (I used the catalog for reference photos), which makes sense for a kid's bedroom and is remarkably easy to build with a foam sheet. This is also the first time I paid real attention to the particular scale.

This was really fun! I felt like I wasn't quite pushing myself enough when I made the bedroom, so I came up with this to make myself build more complex furniture, plus more small accessories.

I can't find resin here, so I needed a way to test a different way to get a water look. This one's just a sheet of tinted plastic, laid very carefully across a painted space, but the effect is alright! The only thing is I had to cover the whole edge of the water, since I didn't cut it well enough to get it well-fitted to the edge.

I bought a rather ugly little Polly Pocket locket a while back, and finally got sick of how bland the thing was and stripped everything except the outside. Then I sort of invented my own even-smaller Polly!

The layout of this one is less elegant than I was hoping; this tin is a bit smaller than my Altoids, so I ended up with less room than I was picturing and it ends up looking cluttered. Still, the concept is very sweet, and I may make another (especially with that window! Iridescent foil looks amazing) with a little more space and effort.

This was largely inspired by the lovely Sharon Ojala (Where The Gnomes Live), who has posted a lot of tutorials on making the teeniest furniture. I find chairs particularly tricky, so I was really happy to try out different techniques to make a few for this.

This one was based off a set of photos I saw of the bedrooms of teenagers in the 70s and 80s, with the walls absolutely plastered in rock band posters. I tried to make a half-decent vinyl player (not happy with it, or the books, but oh well), and a dollhouse hidden away over the wardrobe to hint that her previous interests are still hanging around.

Much like the walnut cottage, I made this to experiment with furniture creations. This time it's the instructions from a Petite Properties manual (cut in half scale-wise, since I wanted to play with a lot of furniture). The chairs are still made the Sharon Ojala way, though, since I loved that and this manual doesn't have those anyway.

I couldn't get the photo to come out decent with the light switched on, but this is my first DIY lighting setup. There's a mysterious green light coming from the back of this cave. I've hooked together kits before, but never in one of my original minis. This one is somewhat inspired by stories where children fall into strange fantasy worlds and have to find their way out. (The girl herself, however, is just a train set figurine that I painted up to look a bit more fairytale.

After making the cave, I decided I wanted to try making my own figurines. I decided ahead of time that they were going to go in some sort of mad science lair, since I knew they were going to come out a bit janky. I kept the fanciest one (I put some effort into giving him nice muscles and uh... other features) on the table and concealed the others in the tubes. I also had to use quite a bit of superglue for all the plastic components of the tubes, which kept coming apart from each other, and only glued my fingers together twice!