31 January 2008

Exciting News

After much hard work this week and lots of photography, we now have over 100 unique items in our webstore at http://www.northernminiatures.com/shop and we're still adding more. Mary Jo has made some beautiful hand-crafted wooden beds, a fireplace and some curtains with valance. These are ready to be sold as well, I just have a few more other things to list first and we'll be adding more furniture and other miniature delights to our shop. Our shop accepts paypal, money order or cheque and we're offering the same great service we offer on eBay. We're probably going to stop selling on eBay after February 20th, due to some major listing policy and fee changes, we'd be paying 11% more to list an item and that simply won't do. If we had to pay that amount, we'd have to cut our listings down to one or two a week and it's simply not fair to our customers, so we've decided to sell primarily from our webshop. We hope you will welcome the shop with open arms. Remember, we always take special requests and custom orders and all of our minis are crafted by hand.

23 January 2008

Miniature Sunday Dinner

Inspired by Margaret's sprouts (ok, so hers aren't burnt but hey!).

Miniature Pasta Set


Miniature Chocolate Kiwi Cake


Miniature Chocolate Orange Cake


Half-Scale Orange Slices Cake


Miniature Margarita


Miniature Jelly Beans


17 January 2008

Miniature Gold and Orange Porcelain Plates



Originally uploaded by miniaturesbymelissa
By Melissa

Miniature Gold and White Porcelain Plates



Originally uploaded by miniaturesbymelissa
by Melissa.

Miniature Jelly Beans In Candy Dish



Originally uploaded by miniaturesbymelissa
Melissa's 1/12th scale jelly beans in a candy dish.

Miniature Jelly Beans In Jar



Originally uploaded by miniaturesbymelissa
Melissa's 1/12th scale Jelly Beans

Dollhouse Miniature Heart Shaped Chocolate Cherry Cake

1/12th scale and made from polymer clay.

Dollhouse Miniature Heart Shaped Chocolate Cherry Cake

Made of polymer clay. In 1/12th scale.

Dollhouse Miniature Dome Shaped Chocolate Cherry Cake

Made completely of polymer clay.

Dollhouse Miniature Pink & White Easter Basket

Melissa and I made these hand-crafted Easter baskets this week.

Dollhouse Miniature Pink & Yellow Easter Basket

Melissa and I made these hand-crafted Easter baskets this week.

Dollhouse Miniature Multicolour Easter Basket

Melissa and I made these hand-crafted Easter baskets this week.

Dollhouse Miniature Blue & White Easter Basket

Melissa and I made these hand-crafted Easter baskets this week.

Dollhouse Miniature Teal & White Easter Basket

Melissa and I made these hand-crafted Easter baskets this week.

Miniature Jelly Beans

Mini Jelly Beans, each bag individually hand-crafted and sealed.

14 January 2008

Miniature Circus Themed Crib

This 1/12th scale crib was a repaint of a wooden crib. I painted it with enamel and then acrylics, adding the circus theme. :) My mom made the bedspread and pillow.

07 January 2008

Miniature Party Food

Party food from one of my current eBay auctions. Cake, champaign, bloomin' onion with dip, French bread, salad and escargot.

Miniature Porcelain Sunflower Plates

Most recent porcelain plates completely hand-crafted and painted.

Miniature Porcelain Plates Flower Pattern


Miniature Porcelain Plates Folk Art


Miniature Porcelain Plates Yellow Stripes


Miniature Porcelain Plates Yellow Polka Dots


Miniature Porcelain Plates Geometric Art


Miniature Art Porcelain Plates


Miniature Art Porcelain Plates


Miniature Art Porcelain Plates

Start of blogs of the miniature porcelain plates I have been creating and painting. Every single bit of them hand-crafted.