My House...

This one has an interesting story. I saved a bunch of drawings my daughter created with she was in preschool. I thought they were interesting, and maybe I could incorporate them into one of my "yearly" paintings. That super cool, crazy figure is her contribution to the painting. I thought the end result was whimsical and fun. The original now hangs in her room, find the mini version in my shop, fabulouslyflawedmini.

"My House", original artwork by Anita Smiley
find it in mini in my Etsy shop

Bright Stripes...

Just finished this custom sofa in a cotton stripe with blue linen throw pillows. It's on its way to a new beach home.

1:12th Scale Chippendale Sofa

French Flea Market Day Bed...

This is one my favorite pieces and scenes (just missing an ashtray and cigarette). I created it to looked like it just shipped from the flea market in Old Nice. Aged to perfection with a linen tea stained tufted mattress and french grain sack toss pillow. It is sure to steal the scene in your mini home.
Find it in my Etsy shop, fabulouslyflawedmini.

Miniature Dollhouse French Flea Market inspired Day Bed
by Anita Smiley for fabulouslyflawedminiatures

Miniature Dollhouse French Flea Market inspired Day Bed
by Anita Smiley for fabulouslyflawedminiatures

Growing Miniature Art Book Collection...

The Art Book series continues to grow. Late last night while everyone was sleeping, I designed several new miniature dollhouse art books. I'm so excited about this series, I'm thinking of actually listing them as a custom order for a group of 3 or 4. Today I put together the miniature Warhol.

Here a peek:

Miniature Dollhouse Warhol Art Book

Warhol Miniature Dollhouse Book

Miniature Dollhouse Art Book Series
(a little dust on the page, did not see before taking the pix)

Miniature Art Book Series
by
Anita Smiley for fabulouslyflawedminiatures

Book Making Fun...

While the pots and pails were drying today, I thought I would have a little fun creating a miniature dollhouse book. I watched a video from a wonderful site called, "We Love Miniatures". The videos are well explained and very good. After watching the book making video a few times. I was able to create this book in Photoshop. It's called "African Objects". I have tons of clip art from my Graphic Design teacher days, so it was pretty easy to find images. I played around with the cover, using a leather image and blended with an african cloth I found on the internet. It came out a little darker than I hoped for, so it's a little difficult to see the african cloth design. It turned out okay. I think I need a bit more practice, but it was a lot of fun to make.  I plan on making a few coffee table art books for staging my photos. If you are looking for a few fun tutorials, check out We Love Miniatures.

Here's a few things I learned:

• Make the pages smaller than the cover. I contracted the pixels by 2, maybe 4 or 6 would have been better.
• Stain (age) the pages before you glue the book together.
• Use regular printing paper for the inside of the book instead of card stock. 

Making books for miniature dollhouse photo staging

Super fun to make

Busy Bee...

So much going on now that I am back. Here's a new addition, "fabric throws". These are the great, made with 100% cotton, soak them in a glue bath for realistic creases, or leave them as they are. Will be adding lots more in different fabrics. 

I also have wonderful new 1 1/2 inch pillows in fresh new fabrics (will be uploading next week). Super excited about the new items.

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New Fabric Throw with Fringe
by fabulouslyflawedminiatures

New Bolster and fresh new 1 1/2 pillow sets
by fabulouslyflawedminaitures

New Fabric Throws, add a glue bath for a realist creases

New Fabric Throws for your mini bed, sofa or chair

Fresh new 1 1/2 pillow sets from fabulouslyflawedminiatures