I became obsessed with minis when I was given a vintage dollhouse kit in December of 2020. I built the house and did all the tedious parts but then got overwhelmed and didn't want to decorate it so I sold it for $25. I've been making small miniatures since. I'll definitely get a house at some point soon and decorate it. I have enough confidence now to make those decisions.
@@queencityminis when I got my first house kit I opened the box and immediately closed it. It went under my bed for 2 years. One Christmas break I pulled it out and got busy with it. Wasn't easy with 5 kids and pre-internet days. I learned by trial and error. It still holds front and center of all my houses. YOU CAN DO IT.
That's fantastic! I'm so glad you took the plunge and built the house, especially with everything you had on your plate. "Pre-internet" must have been a huge challenge. I have learned so much on RU-vid and in Facebook miniature groups. Flying solo must have been hard.
I love the art deco style lamp and l'd love to own a working original like yours. But l think you could make something nearly as beautiful with a spacer bead base, wire and 3 glass tulip-shaped beads. I might have to give it a try!
Suntan oil and lotions- Coppertone was pretty popular back then. Love your collection! My favorite would be the tulip lamp and the red glass vase, I think. 😁
Ooh the bear is a hit! I plan to use him in an abandoned miniature scene I'm making. I made this scene off camera but I'll share some components and show the final project.
❤ The rusty flowerpot! New Fav List! the lamp is lovely, I love the retro mixer so much, yup I would def put a cord on the mixer and metal detail..omgosh.. so many ideas with this lil' haul..and I'll send you a great idea on how I make a vintage cord. I would also put a cord on the oil lamp too☺️ I want to try and create the kitten teapot with Polymer❤
Same here! I know those appliances aren't one of a kind but I just love them. I have a vintage Real Life Miniatures kit that are wooden kitchen cabinets. They would look great paired with those appliances and some laminate looking counters.
Thank you for another wonderful video. I love both the lamps - and the teddy bears. The hats are Panama hats, I wore one as part of my summer school uniform in the 1970s!
Wow - great haul!!! My fav is definitely the first bear you showed. I have a HUGE collection of human scale bears, and a fairly large collection of mini bears, too! One of my houses will be a nod to my own house (which belonged to my grandparents), so I will have lots and lots of bears in that house! Yours is adorable! I also love the Jim Pounder light (gorgeous!). The hats remind me of a boater hat, which is flat like that. Also, the light that had the cord cut out can be re-electrified, if you can get the bulb out. Then all you have to do is buy a replacement bulb on a cord, restring it through the lamp and put the ending plug on. I really hope someday you decide to get a dollhouse - I think you would so enjoy decorating it!
A dollhouse filled with mini bears sounds fantastic! I will definitely have to get a dollhouse. I was too overwhelmed to decorate it when I had one before but I think I've got this now.
I have a vintage stand mixer (human sized) that was my mom’s from the 70s that looks almost identical to the miniature you have! Mine’s a Sunbeam, and it’s Bakelite and chrome.
Copper Tone was a suntan lotion and oil. It was pretty notorious for turning one's skin orange if I remember right. Prell shampoo used to come in a tube, but it was a clear plastic tube. The 44D is/was a cough medicine. Geritol was a vitamin type supplement. I can't remember what else was there. Great collection, and I love the lamp!
Your mystery porcelain box with lid and holes, I believe it is supposed to be an inkwell. There may have been a pen holder made of wire that went into the holes. The White Owl is part of a series of ceramic animals by Hager Renaker.
The shampoo-Dell is a spoof of Prell, which did come in a tube in the 70’s. Copper Tone was also 70’s and was suntan lotion-infamously known for the little girl on the beach with her dog. Lastly, Formula 440 is supposed to be Vicks Formula 44D, a cough syrup. Great haul! love your lamp!
The saddle isn't a saddle but a bareback riding pad. :) Looks like it's for Breyer horses from Traditional line, so it's 1:9 scale. Lovely collection, I agree, that flower arrangement is incredible!
I felt very confident when I declared it was a saddle 😆 Thank you for the info. 1:9 sounds about right. It just seems too big to be 1:12 scale but too small to be 1:6 scale.
These miniatures would look absolutely fantastic in a second hand shop! All kinds of different styles, colors and whatnot, that may not fit in with others but are just right in a roombox. I did one in the beginning of collecting mini's and truly enjoyed filling it with furniture and dressing it up with whatever I could find.
I thought the mystery porcelain box looked like a butter dish when it had the rubber part added on, but that doesn't explain the two little holes... these are all so cute!
The cranberry glass pitcher is stunning! And the tulip lamp is AMAZING. The hats are “straw boaters”, popular in the early 1900’s for men, women (though less common), and also children of both genders. The teapot with the teeny tiny kitty lid is so adorable! You could put the bird figurine in the garden, but possibly also as a sculpture indoors. And I have a tube of shampoo in my bathroom right now. 😆
I’m showing my age, but I knew immediately what coppertone was. You put it on to get a darker tan. I really hope you get a miniature house soon. You really deserve one. These miniatures are delightful. Thanks for showing them.
I think the little dish is a butter dish and the bird in flight is a seagull. I just won a massive eBay haul of miniatures today so I watched this with a ridiculous amount of excitement.
I'm wondering if the mark on the delightful painted ladder might be an acronym for an S. A. Miniature society. The miniature society I belonged to sometimes made and signed gifts for exchanges with other clubs. Thanks for sharing your delightful collection!
The hats are what in the UK are called boater hats. The brim and top of the hat are flat and the hat is shallow. A panama hat is also a light colour but tends to be deeper with a slightly narrower brim and a dimple in the top
number 2 is ancient ink.. (sorry i'm french !😁i don't know the word) little holes are for a feather and a wax stick and a seal , m'y grandmother had same on her desk . love your work 😃👍
That's awesome! Thank you so much for the info. I didn't even consider it may be for a desk. I was stuck on the idea it was for beauty products or toiletries.
Copper Tone is an old 70’s brand of suntan oil I think. I love the 70’s coffee maker, mixer and blender appliances. So cute. All the pieces are art. I love them all. I would put the bird in a garden scene.
Hee, hee!!! I'm giggling over the "little mystery Coppertone products"! Coppertone, in packaging with those colors, was a popular tanning lotion that I remember from the 1960's, the company is still around today. I do remember green hair shampoo in a clear plastic tube like that, I think it was called Prell and not Dell. The Geritol was an iron and vitamin B tonic that was marketed to women because we were all assumed to be anemic back in the 60's. Formula 44D was made by Vicks and it's a cough syrup with decongestant, my Mom gave it to us in the 1960's and 70's. It tasted good so we didn't mind! Wow.... those are a lot of OLD products!
The bottles of Coppertone are suntan lotions from the 70s, the tube of shampoo is supposed to be Prell shampoo and it actually came in a tube lol, the Vicks formula 44d used to be a cough syrup that was discontinued due to the alcohol levels lol. My favorite piece was the flower lamp, very pretty dainty and works. It could be used in a library or even a salon room (den). Very beautiful things. Have a great day
As a kid from the 60's and 70's I can confirm, although we often just used straight baby oil by the pool once we had a base tan going . The sun was different back then
The porcelain box with the hole on top reminds me of a Victorian hair receiver. I still collect my cast off hair to make shapes to pad my hair when it's put up. Victorian women collected their hair and placed it in small porcelain containers. The actual padding is called a 'rat'. Jewelry was also made from hair, esp art created for memorials or mourning.
Your leather painting, last name looks like it might be Poissant, reminds me of the French word for fish: poisson, but it looks like the last letter is a T the way it seems to be crossed?
These are so wonderful! I am crazy about the kitchen appliances 😍 I am not at all knowledgable but the Steiff style bear looks like he could be something very special. So glad you shared these. ❤
Those 2 little hats with black ribbon-look like the hats children wore back in the 30’s or so…I may be wrong completely but that’s what they looked like to me.
Coppertone is a suntan lotion, and I think the tube of shampoo is 'vintage', like from the 60's. Some shampoo back then came in tubes. You have some wonderful minis.
You have so many miniatures!!! Do you just collect or do you also sell? You mentioned that you didn’t have a Dollhouse… What do you do with all your miniatures? I love your channel!!
Thank you! I have two dollhouses now. One I'm just repairing bc it's way too big to keep. The other I'm turning into a Tudor style pub. I do sell some minis but haven't sold many I've made
You don't have a dollhouse? I have a small house and nothing in it. I keep seeing people who find cheap houses in Goodwill stores, free on the side of the road, or on Facebook or flea markets. You should at least make a little corner room box to show some of these items
I had a dollhouse that I built but I got overwhelmed when trying to choose wallpaper etc so I just sold it 😆 I could probably handle it now. I'm sure I'll have a house or at least some decorated room boxes. I have empty room boxes. I'll have to show them in a future haul video.
@@queencityminis I bought a kit in the 90's, got overwhelmed and never started it. Thought maybe I should start smaller with a room box, got some plywood. Cut some pieces with husband's help, but never sanded it or put it together . Then found the same house kit I bought already finished in a consignment shop for $75 so I snapped it up. Only 4 rooms, no electric, but floors, wallpaper are done. Even put a fireplace in, directly on the wooden floor, so it needs a little stone or brick hearth. So I need to make some stuff for it
I bought 13 large boxes of miniatures all at once in December 2020. Then I started an eBay store and kept buying more stuff for inventory. So these "hauls" are actually items in my eBay store. I haven't shared my store bc I'm keeping it separate from my RU-vid channel but you may happen upon some of my things on eBay. Some of the items I show are already sold but many are available for sale.
Since seeing your video I've been looking for miniatures. I'm having no luck. Would you please share the name and location of the store where you got your goodies?
Thank you. I appreciate you responding so quickly. Wish we had something close by. I'll check eBay; I didn't even think of them! One more question: in a couple of videos you used a pair of snips/scissors that looked like a sort of duckbill. Would you please share more info about them?
@@martyklopfenstein98 They're called miter shears. They're useful if you'll be making things and cutting wood. If you won't be making too many things, a craft knife is cheaper but miter shears are much easier on your hands. amzn.to/3LchlUy
I think the wooden piece is a quilt frame. After the quilt is pieced, it is stretched so that it holds the layers together when stiching the quilting lines.
I got 13 large boxes of miniatures from OfferUp, a local buying/selling app. A woman sold me her collection for $210. That got my collection started. I also buy miniatures from Earth & Tree Miniature Shop (earthntree.com), as well as eBay & Etsy.
