The Fabulous Farmhouse

Easter Chocolates and Basket Fillers for the Miniature Dollhouse

New Miniature Easter Grass, Chocolates, and Cookies

New colorful wrapped chocolate bars and Easter grass in bright colors and new packaging are a sampling of this Easter's new dollhouse miniatures. Chocolate drop cookies with candy centers can be found in our chocolate section of the store soon. I love all of the bright Easter colors and look forward to creating more fun miniatures for you and your room box, dollhouse, shadow box, or desk at work. Filling a miniature Easter basket can be done for less than $10.00 and makes a great gift!

February Miniatures Giveaway

February Miniatures Giveaway

I really meant to list this last week but it seems I am a little behind schedule. Nevertheless, here is a really green collection of dollhouse miniatures in time for St. Patrick's Day. A gift bag, greeting card, tray of green sugar cookies, individual miniature shamrock shaped sugar cookies, 2 pc. green striped display, and a chocolate St. Patty's Day Cake. We'll pick a name from our February orders on March 1st and I will announce the winner here. If you have placed an order in the store, on the blog,  or on Etsy during the month of February you are entered to win. If you haven't there is still time! 

Remember These?

Bruce and I were watching the Oscar's last Sunday when a hairdo reminded me of these. I said "monchichi hair" and he said "what's a monchichi?" So this random post is for him, and I apologize if this song get's stuck in your head, it's been in mine obviously, and well, you know the rest:)

Miniature Chocolate Easter Bunny

 
Miniature Dollhouse Chocolate Easter Bunnies

Individually wrapped Easter bunnies for your mini Easter basket are now available in the store.

Let's Try This And See What Happens

 

What I wanted to try was listing a special on my specials page. I'm not so sure how it's going to work out with that widget but we'll give it a go and see. The mirror and banner are there as a one of a kind item. How they got there was an accident. I scratched that mirror cleaning it with the wrong kind of cloth, microfiber cloth, not my t-shirt is what I was supposed to be using. Anyway I dressed it up rather than throw it out. The mirror is still very nice, and you can't even notice the scratches but I can and that's what matters. I don't send anything out that I wouldn't want myself. Never having made a miniature dollhouse paper party banner, I love how it looks! SWEET perfect for a party! The mirror measures 3" by 5" and the banner is scotch taped to the back and can be removed. Extra bakery twine is on both ends also. So let's try this and see what happens:)

1/12 Scale Miniature Dollhouse Books

I made this pink little display yesterday and put an assortment of books on it to share with you. Little Pete's Adventure, Jolly Jump Ups Vacation Trip, Adventures in a Dishpan, A is for Annabelle, and the shop series The Toy Shop, The Sweet Shop, and The Cake Shop. The pink displays will be available to purchase as soon as I get them listed in the store.  These books would be great in a miniature Easter Basket or roombox of any type. Adventures in a Dishpan and The Thank You book (not shown here) are new and will be available for purchase in the store soon.


                  

Sweet Inspiration From The Strangest Things

Mackintosh's Creamy Toffee

Maybe it is me that is weird, but believe me when I say I am inspired to make miniatures from the strangest things. Some not so much, but lots are. If you too are a creator then you know how it feels to have all of these random thoughts floating around in your brain of things that you need to make. Way back in 2007/2008 I worked for a non disclosed county program that had a large walk in food pantry for the young folks that were in the program. Often all of the branches of this program would have competitive food drives, whatever fun way to get food in for the people that needed it. One day it was my job to clean it and I'll tell you it was certainly more than a one day job but I was happy because organization is something I like to do. To get all of those top ramen noodles on one shelf then the canned vegetables on another, that would make me feel real nice! But first the task of sorting through this mess (big massive mess) of food. You couldn't even walk into the closet, just kind of stand at the doorway and grab. Ok to make a long story short I ended up throwing away maybe 3 push carts full and overflowing with expired food. People if you do ever donate food PLEASE check the label and don't give them the old can your kids won't ever eat and has sat there for 5 years on your shelf. Seems that was a lot of the donation supply. Don't get me wrong, there were lots of items in there good, and used often by youth that needed to eat. Anyway, the Mackintosh candy above was expired too but I took it home instead of throwing it away. Why? Well because it was so old and so different I said "this has to be made into a mini". Right? Who doesn't think like that.


Anyone care for some toffee that expired 10 years ago? Yum Yum!

Now that you've seen that date on that box you will believe me when I tell you that I also found macaroni in the box from 1988. I swear I did. Macaroni is not something I really want to make in mini, and that box went to my supervisors desk for a decoration, not sure if she still has it or not. She was new so she may have run out of there screaming by now:) So as you see my inspiration comes from lots of different places. Most all of my links on this blog are blogs that inspire creativity. I don't have so many miniature links as I do every day real life creativity, but Gaye does and if you want to see a gazillion and one miniature links Gaye has the mini extravaganza blog at My Small Obsession. Pack a lunch! Finally I got the toffee made today, only a year after the original idea, good thing mine doesn't ever expire!


Individually Wrapped Toffee

"Mom, mom, mom, can I have one? Mom." That is what I would sound like if this were on a checkout countertop. My new toffee nestled among chocolate bars wrapped in bright cheery colors and individually wrapped Easter chick hatching out of a pink egg cookie! Ohhhh so cute! Believe me I don't feel that was about everything I make, but this little display is a favorite! So I didn't box the Toffee in the original packaging, I gave it my own unique style, and I think it compliments it's sweet sugary friends. Fat Free Never Expires sweets for the miniature dollhouse collector YUM!

Dollhouse Miniature Cross Shaped Easter Cookie

Frosted Cross Shaped Miniature Cookies

Individually Wrapped Cross shaped cookies with tiny little roses frosted in white. These cookies make me wish I had some real cookies! I am still wrestling with the chocolate bunnies but they are almost trained. I think.

Easter Baskets & Goodies

Sparkly & Sweet Easter Baskets & Goodies in Miniature

Ok I haven't been home dwelling on my past failed Valentine's issues, I've been working from the to do list and creating Easter goodies of sweet and sparkly glittered baskets, clay formed baskets, cookies, candy, and bags of Easter grass for your dollhouse roombox or display in miniature. There are quite a few new items in the store and I won't be posting on the blog about all of them so if you'd like to see them do pop on over to the farmhouse store and check out our Easter section which is growing fat like a bunny each and every day! Lots more Easter treats and sweet goodies are on their way, I think I may need to see the mini dentist after this. Now where is that chocolate bunny....
Oh yes I keep forgetting, I added a little box over there on the left hand side for those of you that are interested in receiving an email when I create a new post here.

Valentine's Day. The Trauma, The Pressure, The Torture, The Memories

Misty Water Colored 3rd Grade Valentine Memories

The other day my husband and I were talking about those little life moments where something goes just a little bit wrong. Those moments that at the time their happening they aren't too terribly un-comfortable but who could know at the time you'd carry them around for 50 years or so? One of my little life moments was at yep, you guessed it, Valentine's Day.
Lots of those 3rd grade moments seem to be pivotal moments for me. One's that shape your life,  one's that I can remember as if they happened yesterday. But that one Valentine's Day episode stands out like no other! I'd been planning on how I was going to give the boy I had a crush on some valentine candy conversation hearts. Planning for days....how, when, how....So it's lunch time, and that has given me all day to think about how I'm going to give this boy this box of candy conversation hearts hidden in my lunch pail. I dare not write his name on them or he'd know they arrived at school with some preconceived plan to give them to him. Finally I muster up just enough courage to walk up to him and say "I have extra of these, do you want them?" Thank God he took them or we'd might have spent an extra few years in therapy over that one. So I'm shy, and had I had one extra ounce of courage I wouldn't have held out and handled it the way I did. And today I practice being uncomfortable while I do what I think is the right thing, or say how I feel about something without over thinking it. Because I'm worth it. I tell my children the same thing. They are worth it, and to go for their dreams, and tell the people you love how you feel.  I will probably be carrying that dumb little life moment with me till I'm gone, I think about it while the little girls on tv oohh and ahhh about their Hallmark cards, no one running screaming out of those sweet and fluffy commercials.....but I've had many years of my little one's to give Valentine's candy to, buy schoolmates cards and candy, and I'll happily show my loved one's how I feel today. I get to enjoy the sweetness every time I make a Valentine's Day mini chocolate or candy.
Who's laughing now Ronnie!