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Antonella creates posh and lavish minis

Antonella Nardi spends most days researching and making extravagant miniatures that are filled with beautiful touches of femininity and grace

Lone turns card into beautiful miniatures

If you thought miniatures made from card and mount board couldn’t be detailed and delicate then Lone Schacksen’s work will make you think again

A touch of folklore & magic

Meet the talented artist behind the stories of some magical treehouse creatures and find out how she and her nana found a doll's house home for them

How Kellie restored The Speckled Hen

Everything from fish tank gravel to coconut fibre was used to transform a large bare house into the perfect country pub, complete with paintings created by the owner

Quick and easy

How to create glazed vintage pots for your mini scene

Let's go fly a kite, and send it soaring

Hope for a windy day. Pack a lunch, head out to the park or beach and let s go fly a kite! Or just hang it up in a bedroom

Make pretty cupcakes for all seasons

These little cupcakes, made in pretty pastel colours, are perfect for a springtime scene, but switch the colours and they will adapt to any time of year

Make a pretty gift box as a special present

Take some thin cardboard and some scrapbook paper and have fun putting this lovely little box together before choosing how to fill it

Make this pretty cabinet useful or decorative

This cabinet with drawers can be used in a kitchen to store onions and potatoes, or it can be painted to make a pretty decorative piece

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MINIS WE LOVE THIS MONTH

Caterpillar on the fast track

Caterpillars are usually a little fuzzy and a bit slow. But Laura Miller has created a speedy little caterpillar on wheels for your nursery

How to create perfect stone floor you'll love

Third time was a charm for Auralea when she finally settled on the right way to create an authentic stone floor after two disasters

Enjoy mini shortbread all year round

Shortbread has a long history of being popular throughout the centuries, so won’t look out of place whatever the period of your house

Inka’s cupboard love is an open inspiration

A Swedish illustrator wanted to create a doll’s house after seeing a TV series, and found the ideal location when she transformed an old cupboard

Gilmore House designed after seeing TV series

The Colonial style house featured in The Gilmore Girls TV series was actually constructed in the Warner Brothers studio. Samuel McMakin built a house like it at home

The Phantom of the Opera

Marc tells us how, after hours of painstaking research and much trial and error, he created the gondola scene from The Phantom of the Opera in twelfth scale

Cereal box chapel shows beauty of bits & pieces

Sheena hopes what she’s achieved in creating this wonderful chapel will serve as a testament to making minis without having to spend a fortune

Cutouts

Aire Valley Dolls House Group

T he Aire Valley ladies who make up

How Daniel discoveredd his incredible dream house

A doll’s house addict tells how he and his wife discovereded an amazing house that had been unmoved and hidden away for more than 40 years

Triang kit has survived to tell a Sixties story

A kit built by a schoolgirl 64 years ago has survived despite its delicate structure and now represents something of a time capsule from the early Sixties

Knit a cute lamb outfit for baby

Angela has designed a special little lamb outfit, complete with hat and socks, to keep your baby warm and snug this spring

THE CUTOUTS PAGE

From our house to your house 

SMALL TALK

THIS MONTH WE CHAT WITH JOAN JOYCE ABOUT HER LIFE IN MINIATURES

MAKE ROOM (for a garderobe)

Sandra constructs a toilet for the residents in her Tudor house

Jo’s cocktail bar sparkles in the sunshine

WHERE READERS SHARE PROJECTS THEY’RE PROUD OF, HOWEVER

How Jude’s love of minis began

Jude Downes tells us her husband bought her

Sier is captivated by her new hobby

With a natural flair for style and design, Sier Hieronymus shows us how to make a house a home. Sadie Mansley McKie catches up with this passionate miniaturist to learn how some of her recent projects went together

Victorian house stands out amongst treasures

Sandra gets lost amongst the wide-ranging displays inside The Petersfield Bookshop but discovers a doll's house built for two little Victorian girls, Dora and Liza

Creating a miniature mountain getaway

Inspired by a holiday cabin online Auralea Krieger gathered as many photos as she could and converted the full-size house into a twelfth scale mini retreat