Showing posts with label miniature books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label miniature books. Show all posts

Saturday, September 1, 2018

Labor Day Sale in my Etsy Shop!

A very quick update for now! I just wanted to announce I am running a SALE over at my Etsy Shop....I'm actually taking a short break from cooking dinner to quickly post this announcement! Then I'll need to resume cooking.

I don't post that much recently as I've been busy with the usual - hospital appointments, new house arrangements, working, cooking, errands. I'm sure I missed out some stuff, but you get the idea. I'll have more photos of what I'm working on when I can catch my breath! I'm still around! :)

To all my friends in the USA, I hope you have a great Labor Day Holiday!

Details about the SALE: 
If you would like to pick up some molds and supplies, this is the best time to do so! Please use code: ETSYLABORDAY2018 for ALL molds, craft books and clay supplies! 
Discount: 15% off when you spend SGD$120 
SALE Period: 29 Aug 2018—4 Sep 2018
I promise I have more photos of what I'm working on in the next update! 
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Thursday, December 8, 2011

Craft Books - Welcome to the Felt Bakery

It’s been a while since I did any craft books review. I got this book a while ago and am going to review it!

Book title : Welcome to the Felt Bakery

Author: 宮市稔子


Though this book is targeted towards felt crafters, I decided to review this book because I strongly feel that there are really good techniques here that are extremely adaptable and useable for clay crafters. I am actually quite excited about it after looking at the book.
Very interestingly, many years ago, I was into felt craft as well. I made felt swiss rolls, cakes and all the sweet desserts. After looking at this book, I think that felt craft has actually evolved a lot these years, so much so that felt desserts and pastries have reached a new level of sophistication and realism.

This book introduces felt crafters to clay work as well. The main idea is that before they can actually make the felt items, one has to sculpt the "master" item from clay, and then use it to make molds which will later be used for felt work.

Because of that, there are some very interesting sculpting skills (from basic to intermediate) one can learn from, especially if they are interested in making dollhouse miniatures - bread from scratch! There are tons of different breads to learn, and I think this should keep a lot of bread enthusiasts engrossed and occupied for a long time. Although the items made are larger and not in dollhouse miniature scale, I do think that this can be easily adopted appropriately in the scale that you work.


This book has 54 coloured pages and even step by step diagrams are coloured. Even though the instructions are in Japanese, with the clear diagrams it would be easy to understand. I've not come across such an interesting craft book in a while and this is definitely a keeper!



You can now purchase this book directly here for US$38.90 - shipping included and I ship worldwide!

Just click on the Buy Now button below and it will take you to Paypal. Even if you don't have a paypal account, you can still purchase this with your credit card. You don't need to have an account to purchase it.

Posted by Miniature Patisserie Chef at 11:59 PM 1 comments
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Friday, August 5, 2011

Japanese Craft Book - Sweets Decorina Book Review

It has been sometime ago since I wrote my first miniature book review.

This time, I wanted to write about another Japanese craft book - Sweets Decorina


Published in 2008, this is a 63 pages full coloured book. Though the book is entirely in Japanese, it is packed with photos, so one will be able to follow easily.

This Japanese craft book is suitable for beginners who wish to explore japanese air dry clay such as hearty, grace, cosmos clay. What I love about this book is that most of the tools used are inexpensive and can be easily purchased at Daiso stores. You can follow the photos provided in the book to scout for tools and materials accordingly. Note again that this book shows techniques to make 1/3 miniature scale or larger scale items. But you can experiment and tweak techniques accordingly to make other scale items.

What I also like is that they show you how to achieve different coloured clay such as orche coloured clay by mixing different types of coloured clay. This is especially useful if you don't have an whole array of acrylic paints lying around. They show you how you can achieve different realistic food tones with the primary colours.

You also get to learn how to make macarons and ice-cream using inexpensive tools.

If you are wondering what is the difference between this and the earlier air dry clay book which comes with a DVD which I have reviewed, I would say this has more different food items, which includes chocolate chip cookies, swiss roll, swan puff/profiteroles, various food toppings. They also have lots of photos to show how you can use these food items to decorate photo frames, clothes hanger etc.

All in all, this is an easy to follow air dry clay book.

You can also find this in my store under Craft Books.
Posted by Miniature Patisserie Chef at 4:52 AM 0 comments
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Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Miniature Clay Food - Book Review



Book title : Romantic！なスイーツデコ雑貨

Author: 関口　真優

ISBN 9784123902458


This entire book review is now found on my website. Please visit miniature book review to read this book review now!
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Sunday, April 3, 2011

1:12 Scale Flower Arrangement Books

Beginning of last week, while waiting for my new workstation to arrive and in the midst of packing and cleaning my room, I started another project making these 1:12 scale flower arrangement books. It was really fun for me seeing these books being created in 1:12 scale. I found a little container to hold the mini books that I was cranking out. Why flower books? I don't really know except for the fact that their covers attracted me a whole lot, and the colours are so bright and pretty that I can't resist! In total, I made about 20 over books (all different covers), and I have mailed out a few as freebies along with the sales orders I received last week! :)

There really is no special technique for making these books, and all you need are good resolution pictures, and being able to print them out in best quality as you shrink them down. Strangely though, I find it rather therapeutic creating these lovely books... that's why I ended up with that many :)

Just yesterday, or was it a day before, I posted on my Facebook Fan Page asking my fans to guess what kind of books I'm creating...just for fun and some interaction. Hehe. Cookbooks, journals, craftbooks, gardening books were some guesses. I'm going to try to see if I can find any of those in a style I like. ;)

Off to creating more.

I have some listed in my ArtFire store for sale. http://www.artfire.com/users/miniaturepatisserie

I'm open for trade too, if you like them. I'm actually looking for some dollhouse kitchen utensils, so if you are interested, drop me a comment with your contact, we can work something out.

Miniature book in between my fingers

These books measuring approximately about 1.2cm x 1.6cm x 1mm

A whole bunch of them waiting to be adopted in their new homes :)
Posted by Miniature Patisserie Chef at 7:05 PM 12 comments
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