Come sit and hang out awhile, and watch me build the mini checkers and chairs. 

Thank you and Thank you so much for the Great idea of weaving a headboard! I will definitely keep that in mind.

😆😆😆 I wanted it to look authentic. Especially since I haven’t played checkers since I was a kid.

Thanks your so kind Kathleen!☺️🤗

That’s so cool!! Yeah once you start you’re hooked. Glad that I’m able to inspire you.

Thank you! 😊

Thank you so much Lucy! You are so sweet! 🤗

Thank you for sharing that memory of your father. He gave you some good advice. I have to remind myself that all the time, especially with it being cardstock. Did he work in miniature too?

I’m so glad you like them! When you do try them search on RU-vid for some tutorials that are life size. It helps seeing it bigger and watching them as they explain. I know there is a guy who shows cutting it each time but I never cut it. So there may be things you will have to tweak for miniature.

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Thank you! I am really pleased how far these chairs have come. Have you started your build?

Not yet!

Thank you! 😊

Wow thanks! Glad you find my videos relaxing . I’ve heard a few others say that too.

That is Great! I’m so happy to hear that Diane. Wish I could see it when your finished!🤗

Thanks!! I think you are right. It definitely familiarized me with the machine and design studio.

Thank you! I’m so in love with them too. I had been thinking about chair weaving a long time now. Glad I finally tried it.

Oh wow that must of been Amazing to grow up in Scotland!! That’s great you still have the chairs! I think you’re right about it possibly being 1/48 scale. I didn’t make it to use I just made it to teach me how to use my cutting machine. 😂 I was shocked when I first cut it out at how small the pieces were. 😆😆😆 I put it together anyway kind of a joke. I almost threw it out but thought I should hold onto it to look back at it.

❤️Oh the simpler times.❤️

Thank you so much!! 🤗

@@Lauras-tinyview you are welcome 🙏

Thank you! 😊

Thank you! There have been countless times I need to let glue dry and I mess it up. I will have to look up that chair. I Love your idea with the rope for the bed. I’ve see that in some western movies and “Little House on the Prairie “ and completely forgot about it. I will definitely need to make some beds that way. Thanks for telling me about that!

Welcome to my channel! I’m so happy I can be an inspiration to you and your old west project. Are you posting pictures of your project anywhere?

At this time there is not much to see. I started right now in 1/6 scale. Since one year I'm building a miners cabin out of old wood left over from renovation our old house. Sadly I miss time to get in progress. Evenings while watching tv I make dresses of the 1870-76 for my BOTW figures. I will try to make some pic of my little sucsesses...😀

Someday I would like to post my work on flickr. Then I can tell you...😀

@@volom5545 Wow the cabin sounds amazing! Yes please tell me when you post some pictures. I’d love to see it. I loved working in 1/6 scale but sadly I don’t have the room for it anymore. I feel silly but I’m not sure what BOTW is.

Thank you! Your grandmother’s bed sounds interesting. Was it kind of like the beds they used on “Little House on the Prairie “? If you have ever seen it?

Thank you! 😊

I’m hoping to try that sometime soon. It would be perfect on the General Stores porch.

@@debbralehrman5957 Thank you!! 😊

No mater how neatly I tried to paint the checker board, if you look closely you’ll see it not perfect. 😆 Thank you! Too bad I can’t see your General Store.

I was wondering if it would be possible to weave the checkerboard out of strips of black and red paper as painting between the lines might be difficult.

I was thinking about using painter's tape. I'll try it and let you know.@@coby9896

@@coby9896 After I finished mine I had thought about my basket tutorial with the woven paper. I bet it could work.

I’m am so happy to hear you are enjoying the quilling tool. I bet the candle holder came out really cute for Jasmine!🥰

Thank you Cheryl. I wanted to weave a chair seat for awhile now. It always looked complicated in miniature instruction. So I looked up full size instructional videos here on RU-vid. I guess it helped because it was bigger and they explained it as they did it in full size. So I tweaked it to work for miniature. Be patient with yourself with the quilling. Maybe even practice with larger strips of paper first. I used to make paper bead charms for my junk journals, I think that helped me understand it better and gave me lots of practice.

Thank you so much Jolene! Whenever I see the “Checker and Chairs” it makes me think it should be a song lol. Like “Silver and Gold”. 😆 Jolene you are more than welcome to use anything I’ve made for a video. I would love watching you make it. When my grandson comes this summer he wants to do a video for my channel of him and my husband making one of my tutorials. Kind of like a reaction video. I can’t wait!! I’m not familiar with “ Pet cemetery “ so I would love to see it used differently than in my western theme. Hopefully your hectic schedule calms down some soon for you. Have a great day! 🤗🥰

@Lauras-tinyview Them making a video.. That sounds super fun.. I can't wait to see. 😍 yes, the song would be catchy and get stuck in your head..lol Thank you so much.🥰💕

@@tinykeyholeminis I forgot to mention, that if you happen to watch the barrel video the sound goes out. I removed some music, that may had caused a copyright issue back when I first started youtube. Even though it was supposed to be copyright free from my editing program. 🤪So if you cant figure it out turn on closed captions. Then you can read what was said. ☺

Oh my gosh, that’s so sweet of you to say! Thank you!! Yes, maybe one day I will. I’m taking baby steps. 😆 I’d love to offer some things for free even. My problem with that is I don’t know where to upload it to that’s free for me. I’m so glad my videos are exciting and have something useful for you !!!!

@@BekbekE I am so touched that I have inspired you to start your miniature journey! When I started my channel that was my biggest hope, to inspire others. I am so happy and excited for you! Please don’t be hard on yourself though and get discouraged if the first try’s don’t come out the way you want. It can take some practice but you gain experience all the time. Even from the flops. I would start small. Don’t take on a whole dollhouse at the start. Maybe just a room box. Or even just one piece of furniture. I made things for my Barbies when I was a girl and for my daughter. Then I didn’t make any miniatures for years. Then a RU-vidr woke my passion for miniatures again. Sometimes I spent hours, or days trying to figure out how to make something . Back then there weren’t a lot of miniaturists making videos. I searched a lot of blogs and Pinterest to get ideas. After a while you kind of develop your own techniques that work best for you. I also live in an apartment and can’t use power tools to cut wood so I had to think up other alternatives. That’s how I started using food packaging and the cardstock. Now I love to challenge myself to make almost everything from cardboard, foam board, paper or cardstock. I originally wanted a Cricut. I went down a lot of rabbit holes researching my best option. I kept seeing complaints about the cost of using the Cricut Design studio. You pretty much have to pay to use your Cricut. Or at least that’s my understanding. I could be wrong. Which is crazy to me because you bought it you should be able to use it without having to pay. I think there are different monthly subscriptions you pay to use it. I wanted to be able to create whenever and however long I wanted. The cutting machines don’t come with patterns already. You have to create them or purchase off Etsy svg files. Svg files are cut files. So I usually start designing on graph paper then input my measurements in silhouette studio. Sometimes I have to cut it several times and tweak it till I’m happy with it. I surely didn’t want to have to pay for all of that. I used Cricut back when there were still cartridges you had to buy. I used it for junk journaling mainly. The cartridges weren’t cheap and I sometimes felt my creativity was limited by the cartridges. So I have never tried the modern Cricut or its design studio but I was afraid if I had to pay to use it that would definitely restrict my creativity. I really had to buy a cutting machine because I was having neck and shoulder problems. I didn’t want to give up miniatures or creating so I took a chance and bought silhouettes cameo. I’m very happy with it. There is a big learning curve and I’m slowly teaching myself this last three years to use it. You can look up RU-vid videos to help get you started. Most of them aren’t making miniatures but they can still help you understand your machine better. I hope that was helpful for you. I’d be glad to answer any other questions you may have if I know the answer. 😆 Thank you so much for watching my videos and giving the thumbs up! I appreciate that. I’m still learning this RU-vid thing and hope with time I get better. 😆

@@Lauras-tinyview oh my goodness, I so appreciate your reply and for taking the time to respond. I’m sure you are very busy. I’ve been making miniature kits and have learned a lot by kit bashing or trying to make them my own, but my brain is so full of ideas but I’m kind of frozen at the moment, so it’s like you read my mind with your advice to start small. I’m sure most people are like, “really, you want dollhouse supplies for your 59th birthday” but I do feel like it’s an art form that only other miniaturist can relate to.

You won’t believe it but I’m terrible with math. So I’m not good at converting for example 1/12 to 1/16. The simplest way that I do that works for me is, I look up the standard size of it in real scale of something I want to make. Like for instance in you case your wall height, since you’re converting a house. So I take the full size measurements and divide them by 16. So a standard wall is 8 ft. I need to know that in inches. One foot is twelve inches. So I multiply 8 by 12 which is 96. Then I divide 96 by 16. Which means you need at least 6 inch high walls. Hope that helps you convert your house. If you’re making something and it’s real size is already in inches then you just divide that by 16 for 1/16 scale. Or 12 for 1/12 scale and so on.

@@Lauras-tinyview that's perfect thank you for sharing ❣️❣️