Here is my newest Retro Trailer House I just completed as far as I am going to.  I have become bored with it and was going to do a desert landscape around it with dry grass and trash.  But I am excited to start working on a French Catacomb with coffins and bones.  For this little trailer house I was trying to go for the feeling of an Old Carnival or Circus person lived in it.





 Mabey I will work on it at a different time.  It right now looks like a dirty mess which I was trying to go for, but I did get carried away on the dirt.
 
Have a Wonderful Week Everyone!!!!  I think this weekend I will start working on my Catacombs. 

I went to an automatic place and found a couple of 12volt light that go inside of cars for dash lights that I used for the tail lights.  I thought they were pretty cool since the dollhouse work does not sale lights like these.

 

I had a lot of fun making the little bed in the trailer which ive been thinking about making some mattresses to sale at the show. 

 I try adding stuff that I hand make throughout the house such as in the kitchen the little Ouija Board on the table. I also made the tile in the kitchen and bathroom area.   I found some tile pictures on Pinterest and printed them out on paper then sprayed some gloss spray on them.   The plan was to cut out each square and grout in between them, but I lost my passion for working on the trailer and decided to just glue the tile down in sheets which gave it a linoleum look.

Me sitting back watching a movie while working on the trailer. 

Just finished painting the trailer and loved this bright color and wish I would have left it bright and shiny instead of aging it. 

View from the kitchen into the bathroom area. 

I also spent many hours on Pinterest finding circus posters to copy and make into mini posters for the walls of the trailer. 

Yes a Filthy little bathroom. 

I had lots of fun making the little wood stand for the engine to sit on and gluing down the newspapers the engine sits on.  I wish I could get better at making the grease look better I tried to spill around the engine.  I figure the person living in this trailer is a single Circus or Carne and is rebuilding the engine for his truck to pull the trailer house to the next town.  I just haven't decided what the person does for their job in the circus yet.  Mabey its the Bearded Lady, or the Elephant Trainer, or the Wolf Man!!!!!!!!

I decided I wanted the bathroom to be broken, vs why the bathroom is so filthy.  I then left out the toilet and just left the toilet drain on the floor, since the toilet might have been broken by the Worlds Fattest Circus Freak!!! or something like that. 

I just had to add some of the little Playboy magazines that I made. 

I spent many hours cutting out strips on metal to frame the trailer windows and edges. 

I stole the car engine out of a model and decided it had to go into the trailer but I just had to add lots of grease around it to make it look like someone was working on it. 

The back side of the trailer comes off to be able to access the inside. 

Then I glue on the wood siding on top of the poster board. 

I started with drawing out the shape of the trailer on poster board. 

The corner of the coffee table I make all my little creations. 

This is the print out I made from the computer to make the tiles.  Then I just sprayed it with gloss spray and then washed some watered down brown paint to make it look old. 

 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.