Greggs Miniature Imaginations- (Ever After Cottages)

Hi everyone,

I hope you are all having a great month.  I have just completed my most current home which is a Trailer House.  I had many fond memories of Trailer Houses that I lived in when living in Nevada working at the Gold Mine as a miner.  I also had some fond memories in the 70s of my dad working on the hot water heater on the outside of a trailer house we lived in.  In this trailer house I tried to recreate the outside water heater and furnace I remember as a kid.  I remember my dad used to have to drain it to get out the hard water calcium build up which was almost a foot deep inside the tank, caused from the well water.  I lost most of the pictures I took with my cell phone and do not have a lot of pictures of my current project.  It has been a very busy month, shopping for a new Travel Trailer, painting the back living room, making lots of minis to sell at the upcoming convention this summer.  Plus pictured below are miniature items I have also been working on this month to sell at this years mini convention they include, mini Playboy & Playgirl magazines, Chip Bags, Ouija Board games. 

I really should do more to this house at this point but I really want to start my new mini Gnome House the kind that is build into the ground with a tree. 

I used a acrylic paint bottle which i cut the top off and turned it over and painted it white, added some legs and some metal looking piping and some drains made with tin pans.  

The little furnace I created out of a tin pan. 

I tried to go 70s retro with spray painting the appliances a 70s Green color.

I have a lot of fun making the wood paneling walls, which all I do is use a pen and draw a deep line in the wood and then watered down light brown paint, then a spray gloss over the top. 

This trailer reminds me of my first little trailer house I rented when I first graduated and moved away from home.  I hardly had any furniture but I was very proud of my first home.  I never thought I would own a large home like I do now.  I remember when I worked in Nevada as a Miner that there was no housing available and you would wait for Trailer Houses that came available to rent, and that a lot of them were horrible and unlivable and you would keep moving from one trailer to another to get a better home.  In a 7 year period I had moved into over 20 different trailers and finding one closer to work which was over an hour away from work in the middle of now where of Eureka Nevada. 

I made the trailer so it has all sides and the back side comes off for access inside the trailer. 

Yes the bedroom does not have a bed.  I have ran out of furniture for my homes and need to save and buy more furniture. 

I even made a little closet in the bedroom.  My goal is to make some sliding closet doors, but I will wait. 

This picture of the bedroom reminds me alot of a bedroom in a trailer house I once rented. 

My little retro bathroom which I used the standard kit bathroom, then cut the toilet tank in half to make it look like a real toilet and the claw foot tub I used the legs from it on the hot water heater and surrounded it with wood for the trailer house look. 

My first attempt to make a shower curtain.  I just painted my back living room in my home and i used some plastic from one of the drop cloths and a hanger for the rod. 

This is a picture of me just finishing the wood paneling and gluing them onto the sides.  The light in the front is now located in the hot water heater area. 

I decided to make some mini Playgirls to sell at this years mini convention. 

My little mass production of mini Playgirl magazines. 

I also started to make my own packages to package the minis I make to sell at this years convention. 

My mini Doritos. 

Me trying to mass produce my chip bags to sell at convention.

My mini Ouija Board Game.  I though there are a lot of people out there that might want to add something like this to their houses and you cant find them to buy them.  Ex specially since I see alot of people doing miniatures of spooky houses which they might want for their home. 

I had to share the pictures of the new color I painted the back living room.  This is the room I create all my houses and sit on the floor or on the couch when building the houses.  I wanted it bright and cheerful.  Since I build the new fire place surround around the plain gas fireplace and there was a lot of white, I thought a nice bright color would look good.  I like it but my honey think it looks like a Popsicle.  If i remember the paint color is called Citra by Behhr Paints. 

The boxes in the wall have been white for over 10 years since the house was built.  I love the green I painted just on the back part of the box.  It really looks great I think with the lights. 

There is my coffee table were I build all my houses and minis.