Greggs Miniature Imaginations- (Ever After Cottages)

 Happy May Everyone!!!  I was recently inspired on a trip to  Norm's Dollhouse Store where I saw this little black coffin in the display case, but I didn't want to pay $80.00 dollars for the casted coffin.  So I was inspired to make my own.  Which lead me to make a variety of mini Coffins.  My OCD kicked in and I thought they might be something that I could sell at this summers Miniature Show here in Denver.  It will be my first sales table I've ever had and I'm nervous about needing to have a variety of items to sell-Thus Coffins.  I figure the Miniature Show is in September and Halloween will be the next month so hopefully people will be looking for something spooky to buy.  I just have to figure out a fair price to charge for each coffin.  I spend on average around 4 to 5 hours on each coffin building each out of wood and items I found in the jewelry section at Hobby Lobby and Michaels craft stores.  I hope you like me newest miniature Spooky Coffins. 
I am also currently working on a Miniature Vintage Trailer House that I hope to post some pictures of it soon.  Have a Terrific Week Everyone!!!   Hugs!!!   Stan
P.S.  I'm contemplating making a Miniature Crypt filled with coffins and dust and old stone walls and maybe with some old bones or something.  Not sure yet, but I am having fun making something spooky and old. 

 I thinks this is one of my favorite coffins since it has 3 layers of paint and all the ageing of it like it had just been dug out of the ground.  The bad part is I don't remember the process I did in creating the ageing on this coffin so it will be hard to reproduce. 

I ended up digging out the sewing machine to sew all the silk liners I made for most all of the coffins.  I really wanted to make  a little skeleton that was mummified and put in some coffins, but I didn't want to get to carried away and make it look to scary or creepy.  But if I do I think it would make the coffins even more unique and saleable. 

The rounded top coffins took me the longest since the top has 3 layers of wood that I had to hand carve and sand to round them. 

On the blue and brown coffin I used some old paper doilies that I cut up and glued onto the coffins to make them look like they had metal decoration.  The bad part is I have been to 3 craft stores and Party City and cant find any more paper doilies that are this detailed.  Ill be in search for awhile since I have no idea where I got these doilies from.

This is one coffin as I had just finished building it and then I used a lot of wood filler to fill in any spaces since there were so many angles I couldn't make all wood pieces fit perfectly. 

I also find this one interesting since I found a lions head that I glued onto the coffin and it makes it look eerie.