Let there be light

I finally have a working light in a scene, it's a big day for me.  All I really wanted to do was work my new Rement orange cubes into a setting and it turned into this. I think I am the most proud of this setting so far. The company I work for had us all do this personality test to see what color we were today. Orange people are fearless risk-takers. I wouldn't know though, I'm a gold, for whatever that's worth. Guess I'm letting my inner orange out. Or maybe I was just able to lay my hands on a lot of orange accessories today. 

Listening to: Kings of Leon - Only By The Night

Since I always seem to listen to music while I set up scenes I thought it might be cool to add that too. Meh, we'll see. 

The stuff:

The orange tile wall is from the Mighty World Bakery Set. The make shift frames are cookie sheets from the same set. Couch and table are Bozart. Orange cubes are Rement. Little goldfish and Hermes bag were form a mini show in town. Finally, the black planter and chair are things my fiancee made for me.

Finally, some art for the walls

My Rement room set made the journey from Asia to my front porch. I really wanted it for the white laptop like my MacBook. I may try to take a Mac screenshot to cover the Windows desktop that's on there. It's all about the details, right? 

There are a few things I am especially proud of in this post. The painting was a Christmas gift from my fiancee. It's a miniature by a local artist that we have a lot of paintings by. The tv is my first mini find. It's a fridge magnet from a 99 cent store! I just cut out an ad picture for the image. If I do the screenshot for the laptop I might make a Lost screenshot for the tv. Finally, the desk rug is a cotton round. 

Freebies

I bought four of the white Re-Ment Cafe chairs off of ebay recently thinking they would make sleek dining room chairs. They are bigger than I thought, definitely closer to 1:6 scale and I can't think of any place I can use them. I'm sure someone out there could put them to good use so they are free to good home. :) 

If anyone would like to have them I can send them out this weekend.

Here's a comparison with a Bozart couch & table, a Reac chair, and an AG Mini table.

Movie Night

In honor of Mother's Day, for my Mom who loves movie night. Although not usually with a tray of wine. I liked the pink & green color scheme and really wanted a reason to use the new Plan Toys furniture I bought. The Aztec tv is a little clunky but I liked the idea that these people have a HUGE tv. I also kinda like the polka dot room as a the living room as a change too. 

I'm still working on theses tricky camera angles and lighting, obviously. 

The couch, ottomans and tv stand are Plan Toys. The side tables are from the Target block set. The sideboard is Room By Room Bathroom cabinet, thanks to callsmall for the cabinet flipping idea. 

Reason #4,892 to love Target

After seeing all of the amazing things other bloggers have done with wooden blocks I was dying to get my hands on some. The problem was this cool Brio set I had my eye on is about $35 after shipping. 

But on my last trip to Target I found these Circo blocks for $13! And the best part is I got to use them the same day, no shipping wait.

I was in such a rush to rip the package open I didn't think to take a picture while they were still in the box. 

I think the colors photographed pretty close to the original. The blocks are natural, white, a pale green (close to the Stockholm living room) and two hues of pink. Even if I only end up using a few of the pieces you can't beat 100 pieces for $13. Now if I could just get out of Target for under $20...

Making Minis

So about that great fiancee...

In my quest for realistic miniatures he's finally taken pity on me. After listening to me complain for what could only be the 1,000th time that good minis were next to impossible to find he suggested I try to make what I was looking for. Yeah, not so much. My woodworking frustration has left a half dozen unfinished dollhouses in our basement.  So to prove that it could be done he put together this super mod black chair. (The wingback is just for scale)

Knowing that right now I am completely "Lundby-headed" as he calls it, 

he made it

scale adjustable. With the back up it's about 1:12 scale & with the back lowered it's closer to Lundby size. I especially like the wood on the bottom. I'll be building a scene around it soon. 

AG Minis

I won an AG Mini's lot on ebay and thought I'd try to set the bedroom up. The blue polka dot headboard was a little too much with the wallpaper so I flipped it. I might try to change it completely but for now it works. 

The more scenes I set up the more I realize I am in dire need of accessories. I tend to have a lot of furniture but not enough accessories to make it believable. I also really need to dig and find something for the walls. 

So it's not much but it's a start. Oh yeah, remember those Lundby lights I bought? Well I completely forgot to get a transformer. So smart. Thankfully I have one of the smartest fiancee's ever to re-wire an adapter from the depths of the basement into a working Lundby transformer. How lucky am I? I'm off to add lights...stay tuned. 

Also, if anyone has any tips on how to get the lighting for the photos right I'd love the help.