minilinda2001

Kudos to everyone getting minis featured on Martha. Betsy was so totally professional, and Tracy, I am awed that you managed to complete the Storybook Cottage in one day! Did anyone see entertainment tonight? This episode features the Obama Girls Bedroom - Check out the dollhouse!!!!!!!! Can we get them hooked????? Seems like they are the perfect age..... http://www.accesshollywood.com/inside-the-...ms_video_836182 Linda McD from NOTL, Ontario aka minilinda2001 http://picasaweb.google.ca/minilinda2001

Traci, the throwaway razor ideas are not mine. Tanya's site is http://www.picturetrail.com/gallery/view?p=6&uid=2883072 Look in the T2T album for the scale. I think the vacuum idea was in one of Patricia King's books. Love the hot tub idea, Doreen. And the chicken vertebrae, Holly. Do we ever throw anything away? The real trick is either to find the thingie you've saved for 20 years, or to figure out why you saved it! Don't forget to pick up some spaghetti - moisten one end with your tongue and use it to pick up tiny pieces , beads, etc.

Green Pepper seeds - dried, resemble potato chips. Dry chickpeas - paint them, their shape makes them perfect for apricots or peaches in a fruit bowl. To make chip dip - mix white glue with baking soda till it holds its shape in the bowl, swirl the top a bit and sprinkle with a bit of crushed dried parsley. Foam meat trays - can be painted and shaped into practically anything. (see my Buttercup interior entrance woodwork).) When making fabric bolts for your shop use the white Styrofoam plastic produce trays from grocery products to wrap the cloth on instead of cardboard. They will look "plumper" and have plain white tabs on the ends just like the real thing. Also great paint trays, along with all those plastic lids from cottage cheese! LOL! Pop Bottles - windows. Caps can be planters, hold small amounts of glue. I even made scenes inside them! Throw away razors - Scale for Doctor's office, have seen made into vacuum using sample size toothpaste container for the dust collector.. Cheerios for donuts - Dip in a light wood stain and roll in cinnamon before the stain dries. A dish of nuts -- sesame seeds for almonds; mustard seeds for filberts; whole allspice for walnuts; apple seeds for Brazil nuts. FRUIT CAKES poppy seeds CHERRIES mustard seeds WALNUTS IN A BOWL coriander seeds Use the little metal thingie sometimes found on the end of sock for tongs. Some seeds are just the right size for grapes, but I can't find which in my notes. Tin Foil - Cut cookie sheets , also make lasagne pans by bending up the sides. Chocolates - Take a good look at the brown plastic inserts in chocolate boxes -- looked at upside down some of the shapes resemble cakes. Cut out around them and drizzle with pastel nail polish so it runs down the sides, then decorate with chocolate sprinkles or tiny flowers. Mounted on bits of cardboard cut to fit they look good on bakeshop shelves. Don't forget plain old string! It can make a rug, frame a picture, trim furniture. Can you tell you've hit a hot button?