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. 

Happy April Everyone!  Its been a busy productive 2 weeks in which I just finished another travel trailer for the Miniature Sales Show in September.  I'm calling it the Bronco Football Party Travel Trailer.  I had lots of fun and struggles in creating some new items to add to the trailer.  I made my first chairs, bronco party chairs, lots of party banners, some new magazines and chips in the bowl.  I hope you like my newest creation.  

The hub caps I made out of thin metal, and a metal washer which I compressed the thin metal around the metal washer to make the hubcaps.

Again I had to add the Idaho License Plate since I grew up in Idaho.

I made my second miniature battery which I think looks pretty good for being about the size of a quarter.  The football party flags, I found pictures on the internet and shrank them to size and cut out and glued onto string. 

I'm not sure if I will make more cardboard boxes though.  It took me forever to draw a pattern and cut them out. 

I spent almost 1 day alone just cutting out all the miniature posters and football banners, not counting all the time I spent hunting down football pictures I liked on the internet to use. 

I really liked the Potato Chips I created on the plates.  Guess what they are!!!  I went to the spice cupboard and they are the white flakes in the Red Pepper Spice Jar.  If you order Pizza and they deliver you the crushed red pepper packets-save them to make chips out of. 

Building the inside of the trailer took me a couple of days since it took me awhile to make each section removable from the trailer.  So the kitchen cupboards, material and benches, bathroom and bed are able to be removed. 

Above the bedroom view, I just noticed in this picture I forgot to do touch up paint. 

Very hard to get a good picture of the bathroom. 

Very Tiny Bathroom.  Not the fanciest bathroom since I had to hand make the bathtub, sink and faucet.  The sink I made out of a Jelly Packet that I brought home from the restaurant, the little packets they keep on the table at most restaurants especially for breakfast.

 

The little chairs are not the best, but it was my first time making them and they are really small.  I also made the little car magazine, tin foil and saran wrap and chips.