doll houses

Holy bejeebus. I mean, wow. Just wow. Su Ami is a crafter from Vietman who crochets adorable teeny tiny "micro" animals for use in dollhouses or just for admiring. You can buy her work on Etsy and see more of her work on her blog.

I'm simultaneously delighted and frightened that if I wanted to, I could buy 100 polyclay croissants that are smaller than the tip of my finger. For a mere $18.00 at that. Mostly I'm delighted. Find these at the Lovely-Tiny shop on eBay.

Damn. Just when I finished painting the hallway and making a new fabric wall hanging for my stairway, I was feeling all caught up on DIY projects. And now I see this new idea!

It was made out of a 3' Ikea Billy shelf unit. The genius behind this idea is Andrew at IkeaHackers and you can find the step-by-step instructions here. 

OK miniature lovers. Get read for a mind blowing double whammy of adorable-ness.

In the 1960s the Ideal Toy and Novelty Corporation toy company had a popular line of dollhouses and accessories called Petite Princess. In toy stores, the display for their furniture like this:

Some die-hard miniature maker has created a five-inch-high 1:144 scale replica of the Petite Princess toy store display. Want to know how small 1:144 scale is? Well typical dollhouses are 1:16 scale. So this mini-mini replica is 9 times smaller!