Hi Everyone, I just spent 2 weeks on my newest house.  I call it the Abandoned Crack House.  I found some pictures on the Internet of this house which is shown below and I wanted to try to reproduce the house, but in my own version.  I used what ever windows I had on hand and did not try to match the windows.  But I think it looks alot like the house I copied it from.  This was one of my favorite house to build.  I spent alot of my time making the miniatures on the inside such as, the Mattress and bed and cabinet, mini Playboy Magazines, Food Packages, Potato Chip Bags, Mini Hot Plate, Newspapers, etc.  I really think this could be considered Americana Art.  I tried my hardest to take pictures with all the steps on how I made the items.  I hope you enjoy the work I have done.  I think I now want to build like an apartment over a business.  But I think I really want to make a Trailer House Next.  I hope you all like my newest Mini Abandoned Crack House.  Have a Wonderful Week Everyone!  I hope I might have inspired some creativity!

These 2 pictures I kept looking at on my cell phone to create my house from, which was sort of a pain trying to zoom in and out to build my house from.

This is my interior I completed. 

This is the picture of the interior i am trying to recreate. 

I loved seeing the pill bottles on the table which I try to recreate, which was a pain, but I tried as hard as I could.  See below for how I tried to make my own pill bottles.

I loved making the small little checks that are scattered on the table.  I really like the mini cream cheese box and food boxes I made.  They were so each, just find pictures on the Internet, reduce the picture, print them out on your computer and cut them out and glue them together. 

The beginning of the house. I tried really hard to match the scale of the picture, but I also did not want to make it to large, so my house is smaller than the picture of the house i am copying. 

The roof I used store bought plastic that i cut up into strips and glued on then painted black. 

This is when I just finished the paper brick and started to paint it red, then I dry brush on black paint and some grey paint to make them look realistic. 

Once the roof was painted black, I added a metallic golden bronze, and some rust colored paint to give it the look of rusted metal tin roof.

I spent about 1/2 hour hitting the plastic to make holes and a knife to cut areas to make it look like the rust ate thought the metal. 

I had so much fun starting to stain the carpet.  But the most fun was creating the Wood Paneling on the walls.  I forgot to attach a picture.  But I just used a ruler and used a black pen to push a deep groove in the wood and then I stained the walls with brown paint and dry brushed on some black paint to make it look old and dirty. 

This is how I made the mini mattress for the house. I found a shirt in my closet that had the small lines in it. I then cut a square out. 

I then used my sewing making and sewed it to the rough shape I needed to cover the foam square i cut out. 

I then got a needle and thread and stitched in the indentations in the mattress, then I custom built the bed frame for the house.  My house is smaller then the original and a normal twin bed would not fit and was to big, thus leading me to have to create my own bed. 

This is where I am antiquing mini newspapers i printed and cut out, they will go in the windows of the house.

I love the Playboy Magazines.  I think they look really real.  I think I will make alot of these to sell at the Convention this summer, since nobody else seems to be making them and I think they would be a big hit and people would buy them. 

The caps are from Model Glue bottles that I thought i could create the mini pill bottle from.  So I cut them up.  I thought the tops looked like a pill bottle lid.

Once cut, I added hot glue to each end, then I cut out some newspapers i had already printed and glued to the bottles.  Next time I will spend the time reprinting mini pill bottle labels. 

My finished pill bottles. 

My little Hot Plate I built.  I used to mini metal cookie sheet that i cut off the side handles and put a piece of wood between, then painted black and added to metal looking knobs and 2 washers to the top. This was one of my last projects and I hurried through it since I was getting tired. I know i could have done better, but I was sick all weekend while building this and I wanted to go to bed. 

I just started to make these mini vases out of beads.  I was seeing how fast I could make them so if it would pay to sell them at the Convention this year.

These are the mini decorative jars i made out of beads, it only took me about 1 hour to make these 12 vases.  I still have determined if i can make them fast enough to be profitable. 

The mini bathroom.

Hi everyone,  I just finished my latest little brick home. A couple of weeks ago I was on my way home from my doctor appointment and I passed by a little brick house in down town Denver, that I thought would be cool to try and build.  So I came right home and schetched it up and started to build it.  I am really thnking about making a few more of these.  It sort of felt like I now own that little brick home I passed.  It did take me about 2 weeks of building it with only a couple of hours to work on it every night after I got home from work.  I still need to teach myself house to paint the brick more realistically, but I feel it turned out nicely.  I hopee you all like.  I dont have much time to post with having two full time jobs but I wanted to post some pictures for you.  Have a Wonderful Week and Month!  I can wait to think up a new home to create.

I decided to add some miniature Christmas lights at the last minute before I took the house to my office at work.  Im OUT OF ROOM to store the houses at home, so my office at work is my display area for a few homes. 

After I drew up what I wanted on some plywood, I then cut it out with a jig saw and then nailed it together with my nail gun.

I kept messing up my measurements and not alot of straight lines, But I know that I will eventually cover up any defects and mistakes in my cutting.  Never give up even if it started to look ugly.  Just cover it with paper or scrubs, trees, moss, anything.

I hid all the electrical in the top left attic area.  The whole roof comes off the home easily to access the electrical. 

This was my favorite part.  Every night after work I would add more and more Paper and start to cut the bricks into shape, enjoying watching TV as I did so.

Here you can see how I have cut up a Black Towel into strips and then Hot Glued them in place to make my thatched looking roof.  Then once I had the whole roof covered, I brushed on alot of MojPods. I then let it dry and then dry brushed some light grey on it. 

Another picture of my gluing on the towel to make my thatched roof look.

Here is a picture of when I just completed the house and am now ready to start the interior. 

The kitchen took my one night since I had to make the cabinets to fit since I did such a narrow opening. I had to cut the stove almost in half to make it work for scale in this area.  I felt that since the house should be around 80 years old I wanted some what of an older kitchen look almost like a grandmothers kitchen. 

I know that I am not a cabinet maker, but I used alot of scrap wood and peices of furniture I destroyed and cut up to make the cabinets.

Now I know there is no bedroom or bathroom in this little house, but use your imagination, that the house has been cut in half for you to see inside and the bathroom and bedroom are in the other section of the home.

Hi everyone, I hope you all had a Wonderful Christmas and a Happy New Year.  I have just finished my newest little Cottage, which was so much fun to create.  This time I utilized the same paper clay to make all of the stones on the cottage and the stucco look.  But this time I used a different medium to create the wonderful Thatched Roof look.  I used a Towel, which I cut up into strips and glued down and then Mod Podged it and Walla.  For my first attempt at this new medium it was fun and I am very please with the look of the Thatched Roof.  I think that this will be about the size of my new Cottage Collection that I will be making for the upcoming Miniature Show this year to sell.  This little cottage took me a couple of hours to draw out on plywood, then about 1 hour to cut out, and about 3 days to complete which is because I was on Christmas Vacation and had lots of time to sit and create while watching Christmas Movies.  I hope you all like the newest cottage.  I will try to start getting more pictures taken of the building process, I completely overlooked taking pictures while creating this cottage.  Have a Great Month Everyone.  Hugs Stan

I almost didn't add any moss around the cottage at this point, since I really liked the fresh clean look as if someone had just finished building the cottage to live in.  But you know me I wanted to make the cottage look older and lived in. 

You can see in this picture the Modge Pod still drying on the newly created Thatched Roof. 

This is one of my favorite points when creating the cottage, is adding all the paper clay and starting to create all the stones.