Tin from paper

There are some unique Hungarian thing I can't get from a foreign "dollhouse store". (There is no Hungarian dollhouse store at all!). The kettle of Cegléd was an essential element of a Hungarian kitchen, so I had to find a solution. And tadam! Precisely planned paper template, some glue and acrylic paint. I didn't think it would be so pretty!

Below is a detergent cap after some cut and paint. My mother has a bowl like this!

And at last a potatoe-presser. Everybody in my family said I couldn't do it. But I could! From a beer can.

Some more pastries

Now I don't know whether I make a kitchen or a bakery shop. But I really enjoy baking fimo! It's unstoppable!

Újabb gyurma termékek

I made experiments with fimo. I followed Angie Scarr's instructions when I made the leeks.

Making cakes is amusing and I enjoyed to decorate them.

Turning back to the country kitchen: : some eggs. The bowl is made of fimo. I'm not good at miniature painting. I need some practice!

Some fruit in a basket made by me. Simply I can't produce a nice basket. At this basket I used thread, but I'm not contented .

Comment: making grapes is a monotonic job. Perhaps with a good movie it would be more bearable.

Work with Fimo

I red a lot about polymer clay and I couldn' wait to try it. There are so many brands! I chose Fimo and I'm pleased with it. But it's so expensive'. I must try other brands too!

So I started to test Fimo. I produced some miniature foods randomly, see below:

The crust is too thick on my first bread. Later I try to be more crafted. The knife is my child too: revival of some wood and can from the dust-bin.

Furniture of the Hungarian farmhouse kitchen

At last I had time to take photos of the results of the last weeks. I made some pieces of the furniture of the kitchen. The painting isn't the best. The chair is a little bit chunky but I love it.. My favourite is the cradle.

My tiny world

At last I started on! On the one hand working (a lot of idea, theory, but only at the beginning), on the other hand taking my work onto the net to share with others.
My name is Erzsébet Bodzás and now I'm 35. I'm a landscape architect. My mania is gardening and making miniatures. A few years ago I made a dollhouse for my daughters (there were two of them at that time) as a christmas present. I went after the subject on the net and found a part of the people on this planet miniaturizing everything. I fell in love with that at first sight! I decided that some day I would try it for my own sake. Now this is the time.

I have no room in my house to park a new dollhouse, so I will make roomboxes. My theme: Hungarian farmhouse kitchen of the early 20th century. I found many useful photos and descriptions of original objects on the homepage of the Museum of Ethnography.

Well, now I have a cradle (I don't know why it would be in a kitchen, but it was made first), a table, a chair and a couch.