Kassandra's new home is finally finished!

It's a great day today!  The house construction is finally over.  Kassandra is over the Moon, and now she just wants to decorate, decorate, decorate!

We started work today by finishing the library's ceiling.  Kassandra found some really nice ceiling decorations at Miniature Wallpaper.  The paper is of very good quality, and they ship them inside a cardboard roll, so it will get to you without any wrinkles or damage.  However, in our case, it was impossible to make it flat, even though it was put under some weight for more than a week.  We managed to work with it, and since it is thick, it was not affected by the manipulation.

We started by taking measures to put the two sheets together: 

It looks better in the picture.  It is darker in real lifer.

When working, Kassandra was disappointed to find that they had included a copyright notice in the same wallpaper, forcing us to take out a strip of about 0.5 cm:

 The good thing is that the sheet tile very well, and we had a very nice piece of paper when we finished:

We had to hold it with something because it kept rolling on itself...

 

But the final set up was grandiose!  Kassandra was very happy with the final look:

She got a new carpet from Ana Circea's shop

Finished the library, we started with the living room's ceiling.  We proceeded the same as in the library: took measures, mounted the sheets, and applied them to the ceiling:

Kassandra says she loves how bright and big the room looks now.  She is also happy that the stairs hole  is finally covered.  She says the next thing to do here is to hang some pictures on the walls.  Do you see the picture of the lady next to the aquarium?  Kassandra says it is featured in the intro of a vampire TV show that she loves.

And finally, we went to the conservatory, to mount a carved ceiling piece:

It only lacks a lamp now, which is already on its way...

 We are very happy of today's day of work!

Free printable! Operation game box and board

I looooove designing my own printies!  The search for images, the composition process on the computer, and then printing them, and seeing how everything works together... Priceless!

Here is a new free mini for you to enjoy: a printable Operation box and board!

I glued the playing board onto a piece of 3 mm foamboard, to give it a 3D look.  You can use too regular cardboard (one piece or several pieces attached to each other).

As always, feel free to use it, make gifts for your friends, and share (links back are nice too!), but please do not sell the file or your creations.  Enjoy!

Nursery scene - a gift for a coworker

One of my coworkers recently had a baby girl.  I made a little scene for her that she could use to decorate the baby's room.  

 For the room I used a small coin bank with the coin slot side as bottom.  I dressed up the walls, sides and ceiling with paper - I used one of Zenas Miniatures downloads to make the baby items.  Then I took a couple of frames to hang some art in the walls (one of them features the baby's name), and bought some commercially made baby items to fill the basket; and of course, a teddy bear.

The food packages and the diaper box I designed myself with images found on Google.

 It was super easy and fast to do.  My coworker loved it.  I hope her child can appreciate it too when she grows up :)

Free printable! Comic books boxes

Who does not love miniature printables?  Even much so when they are something that you do not come by every day... like comic books!  I am sure there are many comic books fans among miniaturists (I am one of them!).  So it was a very nice suprise when my friend Nikolai, from Mojo World & Co. posted a free printable with comic books!  Here is a link to his YouTube channel, where he carefully explains how to make them; also, you can watch what Batman, Robin and Superman are up to...

And since I am a total geek, I decided I needed some cool comic books boxes to keep them.  I designed these using life-size comic books boxes that are actually sold.  Naturally, my three choices were Batman (because Batman; always Batman), Superman and the X-Men.  HERE is the printie.  I hope you enjoy creating a cool comic book collection for your scene.  As always, feel free to share the file with anyone (links back are nice too!) or gift the boxes to your friends.  But please, do not sell the file or your creations.  Thank you!

 Check out Nikolai's social media and Etsy shop! 

The cellar has lights!!

Kassandra is very happy today.  She finally was able to get some appropiate lights for the cellar, and we just got them installed.

She wanted some modern, stylish lights, but also practical for a barely used room.  She found them at Tienda de Casitas, a very nice dollhouse shop in Seville, Spain.  She says that industrial style lamps are in vogue now, apparently, and she liked these ones very much:

She is very happy about how bright they are.  She says soon she will post pics of some of the rooms in the house, so you all can see how many things she already got in place...

Free printable! Opera magazines

I have been busy, so some time has passed since last time I visited Kassadra.  Today I found her storing some magazines in her new library.

"Hello, my dear", she said.  "Long time no see!"

"Indeed.  You have been busy..."

"Of course!  As soon as I finish organizing these, I will give you a tour of the house for you to see all the new stuff" (more info on that tomorrow!).

"More magazines?"

"Well, naturally!  My daughter Jean is very fond of opera, so I got some specialized isssues for her.  I am just putting them in the library, because I really have no more space in the living room".

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Fantasy apart, both my husband and I enjoy opera, so these magazines are a wink at him.  I used real opera magazine covers, and put an ad related to music in the back.  I am happy to share them with you, in case you need some magazines lying around.  HERE you go!  Have fun with them.  As always, please feel free to make gifts out of them, and share the printie with anyone (links back are nice too!), just please do not sell the file or you creations.  Thank you! ♥

Need more magazines?  Here you have some ballet magazines and belly dance magazines!

A new chest finished

Remember when I made that vampire hunting chest kit?  Well, one was not enough, so I had to make another.  Bigger and better!

I bought a Dragonfly trunk kit a long time ago.  It was supposed to be something like this:

Stock photo

 

But it turned out to be very small for what I wanted to do with it; after all, it was supposed to be a doll trunk, so I turned it into another vampire hunting chest:

It was a project that I had postponed for a very long time.  I am happy to have finally finished it.  Here are some pics of the making process.

This is the new, opened kit:

 

I started by assembling the two boxes that would make the main body of the trunk, and then staining them with brown ink:

After that, I covered the inside with red velvet paper:

Then I assembled the drawers, stained them, covered the inside and put them in place:

Then I started getting together what was going to be put inside.  I chose a cross and a couple of candles for one of the trunk sides, and a hand mirror, a bible and wooden stakes for the other:

 

Next, to cover the outside with a faux leather finish.  A black faux leather was included with the set, but it was 1 mm too short to use (a pity, I really liked it!), so I used the same faux snake skin I used in the folders for the maps cabinet:

And then I put the gold embelishments: hinges, corners, locks, handle and the keyhole.  Everything is from Bindels Ornaments, except the locks:

 

 I absolutely love the locks!  They even have a mobile part that latches into the other piece.  I got them in one of Tom Bishop's shows.  And then I put some extra stuff in the drawers.  A necklace with a cross, and a bottle of holy water.  The mallet I made from polymer clay a long time ago for the other chest, but it looks way better in this one:

And voilà!

 I hope you like it as much as I do :)