It’s 4 AM here, I clicked on the video by mistake when I tried to check the time on my phone. Now I am just smiling at the screen because everything looks so beautiful. I have to watch it again later with some coffee so I can properly appreciate it. Thank you for all you do 💕
The tiles are beautiful and would love to watch you make them. Who am I kidding, I love watching you make anything! I have a small blanket from MiniGio that I bought at the Bishop show in Chicago, and it is stunning! I am also blessed to have a great friend who is very talented in miniature crochet and has gifted me several pieces that I treasure. And you Josje! Is there anything you can't do? I love watching your videos 😊
Thank you so much Beth! Oh there are lots of things I'm not good at, but I can always try 😉 With time and practice we can get better at anything. Lovely to have treasures like that from your friend, and artisans like MiniGio. I'd love to go to the Chicago show one day! 😃
Hi Jose, I have a collection of old english housekeeping, cookery and first aid books belonging to my grandparents. They were in service in an English hall, like Downton Abbey. Nana was the cook and grandad head gardener. I grew up with the hall and grounds as my playground in the holidays and weekends, yes it was a 7 days a week job. Their own kids were at boarding school so I had the nursery and playrooms to myself - such a treat for a child. This took me right back to those days as does the smell of box hedging! 😂 I found your channel via the tiling vlog so this was also a celebration of discovering you! I whoop with joy when I see a notification, I’ve learned so much not just about miniatures but about history and traditional techniques. Thank you for the hard work you put into your channel - you are very much appreciated! ❤❤❤xx
Oh wow, what great memories to have! To have first-hand Downton Abbey-like experiences is very special. And the smell of box hedging 🐈⬛ 😫..that is so funny! Thank you for your very kind words Wendy! 🌷😃
Very nice video. About polishing shoes… that certainly brought me memories. I was born in Spain in 1960 and every Sunday , while watching the football game before dinner, my father, sister and I would polish our shoes (Dad the dress shoes he wore for his work at the Bank and us girls our uniform shoes). People no longer do that… 😢
I always have such a sense of nostalgia when I watch your videos, and a gentle melancholy when I hear the music signifying that another episode is coming to an end... I enjoyed the glimpses into how you create these wonders! Thank you! kindest regards, kat
I associate nostalgia with warm and happy memories, so that's good, right? It's funny that you mentioned the music and a gentle melancholy, as that's just what I thought when I edited the video. I wondered if it wouldn't be better to leave the music out. Thank you so much Kat!
@@MakeMiniatures sorry for the delay: yes, indeed, it's good: rather like the warm, cosy feeling I get as the nights draw in and I see the warm lights coming from people's homes, and I smell the dying leaves and the roasting chestnuts and woodsmoke... all those lovely things that signal time is passing, but time and life is also good.
Hello Josje, your crochet blanket squares are coming along nicely. Pinterest is great for ideas , I go to look for one thing and end up looking at something completely different and hours have passed before I know it 😅. I love old books, I have my Mum's old cook book from the 30/40's there are some wonderful photos in it of kitchens back then, it's more like kitchen instruction manual than a cookbook , showing what equipment you need, to teaching everything from boiling water to deboning a whole animal and the many ways to cook it as well. I also have a notebook containing my Grandmother's hand written crochet and knitting patterns, I'm not sure exactly how old they are she was born in the 1897, they're possibly a 100 yrs old or more, one day I'm going to have to make something from it. Have a lovely week ahead. Best Wishes from Yorkshire, England 🇬🇧 😊
It's the same for me on Pinterest. I really have to tell myself to stop or hours will have passed before I know it. How wonderful to have your mother's old cookbook! I like those old books exactly because they show the way to do things, like deboning. Skills that, in our modern times of convenience, we have seemed to forget. Ooh! I also have one of those notebooks from my grandmother with cut-out pictures, recipes and knitting patterns with hand-drawn pictures of the pattern model. So much fun! Yes, I agree, we should make something from those old notebooks. Thank you Diane! 😃
so excited for possible new year project I found publication from 1960/1961 Popular Mechanics Home Handyman Encyclopedia & Guide that has 16 issues (hardcover) that could possibly match up
I was thinking the same thing, Popular Mechanics dealts with all sorts of projects. A 1947 issue had a Christmas dollhouse, and the Dec. 1976 issue had instructions for two dollhouses.
Hi Josje! I too have a collection of old books from the 1950's which I enjoy very much. Most of them are cookbooks with lots of colour photos of the completed meals including 50's style table settings, but what's really unique, are the adorable two-toned illustrations which were standard fare for both the cookbooks and the vintage decorating books from that era. Two of my home decor books even has illustrations of one room done two ways which say" DO THIS - NOT THIS", accompanied by a ✔ or an Ⅹ which I find quite amusing! since I often like the Ⅹ 'd one better! 😄
@@MakeMiniatures perhaps you're right Josje but I think that decorating back in first half of that century was far more prescriptive and regimented than not.
Josie, I just discovered your channel and I love it❤ Your English is phenomenal. I lived a year in Harmelem in 1977 and I have the most wonderful memories. I live in Minnesota in the U.S. My Dutch is so bnD, it is embarrassing. . . Nevertheless, Bedankt! Goertjes, Janice.
Graag gedaan 😉 Harmelen, nice! I used to live close to Harmelen. Were you an exchange student back then? Dutch is a difficult language and hard to keep up with, so I understand you've lost much of it. Despite using it quite regularly, my English isn't as good as it used to be either. Thank you so much Janice! 😃
@MakeMiniatures Josje, what a pleasure it was to read your email! My husband and 3 children lived in Harmelen in1977-78. My husband's American company sent him to Amsterdam, and we chose to live in Harmlesn for our children . It was the perfect dorpje for us! All 3 attended the kleuterskol and became fluent in Dutch. We made wonderful friends and have the best memories. What town did you live in? I used to bike to Woerden to shop once a week. I am now 77 years old this Kerstdaag. I fell in love with little antique dolls and their world of miniature rooms about 25 years ago. So, you can imagine what a thrill it was to discover your channel! Holland and dollhouses together!🤗❤️ Wat leuk! I live in a little town in Minnesota, surrounded by wheat and corn fields with a buffalo ranch 1 kilometer away from my house. Nobody collects old girl toys! So, when l mention my passion, they roll their eyes🥴. . .your videos make me feel I have found a long lost friendje! Bedankt for being there! What a wonderful age we live in! We can "visit" the past and friends around the world.
Lots of memories popped up when you flipped through the pages of your books. I recognize so many of the old things LOL. Your tiling method is so amazing with such lovely results. A friend of mine had a relative who worked, at where they made the little dutch tiles that fit into spoons..........she gave me quite a few.......but they're all the same design and not quite to scale, so beautiful though. I've shared them with others over the years. Some are in my mini house. Those books you found are great reference books. Thanks for showing them. 📚
Thank you Urbania! The books are great for reference. Dutch tiles that fit into spoons? Now I am curious. I don't know spoons like that! Or maybe I do...Do you mean those teaspoons with a decoration at the top of the handle?
@@MakeMiniatures Yes they are the Dutch souvenir spoons that are sold in Holland. These are square tiles blue and white, with a windmill on them. We're going back many years when my friend gave me a "bag" of these. Since they are all the same windmill pattern, I use them here and there and not together. I gave many of them away over the years. I imagine they're made in Delft? Talking about thrift stores, souvenir spoons are something I look for. Some are silver and have a 3D figure on top. My husband separates the item off the handle and leaves me with quite some interesting figures to set around the mini house.
Good idea! I remember those apostle spoons, my aunt had those. They would make fantastic miniature sculptures. I do sometimes look at silver cutlery to use as scrap silver to make some miniature from. But I rarely find real silver in thrift stores. Auctions yes, but then they come in large lots usually, making it more expensive.
I really enjoyed watching your process of tiling the wall. That was helpful in some of what I plan to do on a future project. I too get inspired by Pinterest and try not to spend hours looking.
Yayyy. I'm looking forward to your current and future projects. I've learned most from you. Thank you for you. I don't know any dollhouse people. I really appreciate you. 🙏 I looked up your Home Mechanic book. It's available from the 1960s in online thrift book stores. P.S. Love those sleeves. Beautiful pattern.
You are so welcome Tara! I'll try and find the book online. My shirt sleeves you mean? Yes, I like the pattern too. It's a lovely shirt. I like wearing it. 😃
In building a 24 scale dollhouse, I recently built a real good toye 1/12 scale. I found the basic dimensions of a 1/24th colonial and am building based on those dimensions with 1/4 mdf board. Easy enough if you have a mini saw. The rest I go online and measure what the door frame is and build myself. Or in 1/12 th and divide by two. Most miniature products have the dimensions online. This is very useful. I'll also add additions like a conservatory ect..
Yes, I do that too. I just look up the real dimensions and divide them by whatever scale I need them for. I'm sure I'll be changing and adding some things to my build as well. That's part of the fun, isn't it? Are you using real house plans? I used to love reading some American decorating magazines with all the house plans in there.
I love your tiles. I want to make some for my Tudor house. I’d be so appreciative if you would tell me the width of plywood you use to make your room boxes for your dolls house. Thank you so much!
Beautiful. Everything is beautiful. Does Loosdrechtse Porcelain factory still exist? I can't find their website anywhere. I also wonder how and with what you grout your gorgeous tiles?
Thank you Ulrike. No, the Loosdrechtse Porseleinfabriek was only in business for a short while, mostly in the last quarter of the 18th century. Their pieces were expensive and the company went bankrupt in 1782. Production then moved to Amsterdam (Amstel porselein). They were in production until 1820. I use wall filler (spachtelmasse) as grout. If you like you can watch the tutorial I made about it a few years ago: ruclips.net/video/n2_p-SGS34g/видео.html 😃
@@gailorr1088 She grouped all of them under the common title of handiwork. I do understand that tatting is a more complex skill. Yet, it does, indeed, involve the hands...working. Yes?
@@kelleykudu For sure handiwork is the correct word for this type of craft. Now that I have reread your comment I realize that she wasn't calling crochet tatting, which is what I was pointing out. Sorry about that.
Hi Dale, the flat, square weights are steel bench blocks used in jewellery making and metalwork, available from jeweller's supply stores. I picked up the other two steel blocks at a thrift store.
Pennsylvania. I was in High School then. Not much studying, to be honest. It was too easy 😂 It was more to experience living in another country. I had a fantastic year!
Pennsylvania. Wonderful and so much history. I really like the pre industrial styles, such as your Dutch houses. I'm doing a colonial house from my head, really. Real Good Toys has a kit and I took the width and length from there. I'll add one story rooms on both sides for a conservatory and workshop the other. I'm just looking at alot of colonial American houses and furniture too. I love the simplicity and quality like federalist. I'll keep you posted, my friend. It's an adventure!
It’s 4 AM here, I clicked on the video by mistake when I tried to check the time on my phone. Now I am just smiling at the screen because everything looks so beautiful. I have to watch it again later with some coffee so I can properly appreciate it. Thank you for all you do 💕
Morning! 😉 That was funny! Thank you Jen! 😃
The tiles are beautiful and would love to watch you make them. Who am I kidding, I love watching you make anything! I have a small blanket from MiniGio that I bought at the Bishop show in Chicago, and it is stunning! I am also blessed to have a great friend who is very talented in miniature crochet and has gifted me several pieces that I treasure. And you Josje! Is there anything you can't do? I love watching your videos 😊
Thank you so much Beth! Oh there are lots of things I'm not good at, but I can always try 😉 With time and practice we can get better at anything.
Lovely to have treasures like that from your friend, and artisans like MiniGio. I'd love to go to the Chicago show one day! 😃
Hi Jose, I have a collection of old english housekeeping, cookery and first aid books belonging to my grandparents. They were in service in an English hall, like Downton Abbey. Nana was the cook and grandad head gardener. I grew up with the hall and grounds as my playground in the holidays and weekends, yes it was a 7 days a week job. Their own kids were at boarding school so I had the nursery and playrooms to myself - such a treat for a child. This took me right back to those days as does the smell of box hedging! 😂 I found your channel via the tiling vlog so this was also a celebration of discovering you! I whoop with joy when I see a notification, I’ve learned so much not just about miniatures but about history and traditional techniques. Thank you for the hard work you put into your channel - you are very much appreciated! ❤❤❤xx
Oh wow, what great memories to have! To have first-hand Downton Abbey-like experiences is very special. And the smell of box hedging 🐈⬛ 😫..that is so funny! Thank you for your very kind words Wendy! 🌷😃
Very nice video. About polishing shoes… that certainly brought me memories. I was born in Spain in 1960 and every Sunday , while watching the football game before dinner, my father, sister and I would polish our shoes (Dad the dress shoes he wore for his work at the Bank and us girls our uniform shoes). People no longer do that… 😢
Wonderful memories! No, I don't think people have set times to polish their shoes like they used to. But most people still polish, of course. I do. 😃
I always have such a sense of nostalgia when I watch your videos, and a gentle melancholy when I hear the music signifying that another episode is coming to an end... I enjoyed the glimpses into how you create these wonders! Thank you! kindest regards, kat
I associate nostalgia with warm and happy memories, so that's good, right? It's funny that you mentioned the music and a gentle melancholy, as that's just what I thought when I edited the video. I wondered if it wouldn't be better to leave the music out. Thank you so much Kat!
I associate that music with sadness because it means the video is coming to an end.
@@MakeMiniatures sorry for the delay: yes, indeed, it's good: rather like the warm, cosy feeling I get as the nights draw in and I see the warm lights coming from people's homes, and I smell the dying leaves and the roasting chestnuts and woodsmoke... all those lovely things that signal time is passing, but time and life is also good.
Hello Josje, your crochet blanket squares are coming along nicely. Pinterest is great for ideas , I go to look for one thing and end up looking at something completely different and hours have passed before I know it 😅. I love old books, I have my Mum's old cook book from the 30/40's there are some wonderful photos in it of kitchens back then, it's more like kitchen instruction manual than a cookbook , showing what equipment you need, to teaching everything from boiling water to deboning a whole animal and the many ways to cook it as well. I also have a notebook containing my Grandmother's hand written crochet and knitting patterns, I'm not sure exactly how old they are she was born in the 1897, they're possibly a 100 yrs old or more, one day I'm going to have to make something from it.
Have a lovely week ahead.
Best Wishes from Yorkshire, England 🇬🇧 😊
It's the same for me on Pinterest. I really have to tell myself to stop or hours will have passed before I know it.
How wonderful to have your mother's old cookbook! I like those old books exactly because they show the way to do things, like deboning. Skills that, in our modern times of convenience, we have seemed to forget.
Ooh! I also have one of those notebooks from my grandmother with cut-out pictures, recipes and knitting patterns with hand-drawn pictures of the pattern model. So much fun! Yes, I agree, we should make something from those old notebooks.
Thank you Diane! 😃
so excited for possible new year project I found publication from 1960/1961 Popular Mechanics Home Handyman Encyclopedia & Guide that has 16 issues (hardcover) that could possibly match up
That would be wonderful Jenny! Do you have a chance to look inside or see the chapters?
@@MakeMiniatures it’s limited on view of pages/chapters some single issue listings show more
I was thinking the same thing, Popular Mechanics dealts with all sorts of projects. A 1947 issue had a Christmas dollhouse, and the Dec. 1976 issue had instructions for two dollhouses.
How wonderful! I'd love to see the Christmas house.
Who am I kidding? I'd love to see the two 70's dollhouses too. 😉
Hi Josje! I too have a collection of old books from the 1950's which I enjoy very much. Most of them are cookbooks with lots of colour photos of the completed meals including 50's style table settings, but what's really unique, are the adorable two-toned illustrations which were standard fare for both the cookbooks and the vintage decorating books from that era.
Two of my home decor books even has illustrations of one room done two ways which say" DO THIS - NOT THIS", accompanied by a ✔ or an Ⅹ which I find quite amusing! since I often like
the Ⅹ 'd one better! 😄
That is funny! You are a rebel Elizabeth 😂
@@MakeMiniatures perhaps you're right Josje but I think that decorating back in first half of that century was far more prescriptive and regimented than not.
@@elizabeths4371 Oh absolutely. As was the way one dressed and behaved.
Josie, I just discovered your channel and I love it❤ Your English is phenomenal. I lived a year in Harmelem in 1977 and I have the most wonderful memories. I live in Minnesota in the U.S. My Dutch is so bnD, it is embarrassing. . . Nevertheless, Bedankt! Goertjes, Janice.
Graag gedaan 😉 Harmelen, nice! I used to live close to Harmelen. Were you an exchange student back then? Dutch is a difficult language and hard to keep up with, so I understand you've lost much of it.
Despite using it quite regularly, my English isn't as good as it used to be either. Thank you so much Janice! 😃
@MakeMiniatures Josje, what a pleasure it was to read your email! My husband and 3 children lived in Harmelen in1977-78. My husband's American company sent him to Amsterdam, and we chose to live in Harmlesn for our children . It was the perfect dorpje for us! All 3 attended the kleuterskol and became fluent in Dutch. We made wonderful friends and have the best memories. What town did you live in? I used to bike to Woerden to shop once a week. I am now 77 years old this Kerstdaag. I fell in love with little antique dolls and their world of miniature rooms about 25 years ago. So, you can imagine what a thrill it was to discover your channel! Holland and dollhouses together!🤗❤️ Wat leuk! I live in a little town in Minnesota, surrounded by wheat and corn fields with a buffalo ranch 1 kilometer away from my house. Nobody collects old girl toys! So, when l mention my passion, they roll their eyes🥴. . .your videos make me feel I have found a long lost friendje!
Bedankt for being there! What a wonderful age we live in!
We can "visit" the past and friends around the world.
Lots of memories popped up when you flipped through the pages of your books. I recognize so many of the old things LOL. Your tiling method is so amazing with such lovely results. A friend of mine had a relative who worked, at where they made the little dutch tiles that fit into spoons..........she gave me quite a few.......but they're all the same design and not quite to scale, so beautiful though. I've shared them with others over the years. Some are in my mini house. Those books you found are great reference books. Thanks for showing them. 📚
Thank you Urbania! The books are great for reference.
Dutch tiles that fit into spoons? Now I am curious. I don't know spoons like that! Or maybe I do...Do you mean those teaspoons with a decoration at the top of the handle?
@@MakeMiniatures Yes they are the Dutch souvenir spoons that are sold in Holland. These are square tiles blue and white, with a windmill on them. We're going back many years when my friend gave me a "bag" of these. Since they are all the same windmill pattern, I use them here and there and not together. I gave many of them away over the years. I imagine they're made in Delft? Talking about thrift stores, souvenir spoons are something I look for. Some are silver and have a 3D figure on top. My husband separates the item off the handle and leaves me with quite some interesting figures to set around the mini house.
Good idea! I remember those apostle spoons, my aunt had those. They would make fantastic miniature sculptures. I do sometimes look at silver cutlery to use as scrap silver to make some miniature from. But I rarely find real silver in thrift stores. Auctions yes, but then they come in large lots usually, making it more expensive.
I really enjoyed watching your process of tiling the wall. That was helpful in some of what I plan to do on a future project. I too get inspired by Pinterest and try not to spend hours looking.
Glad it was helpful Heather! I have a video tutorial on tiling, which shows the process in more detail. Yes, Pinterest is dangerous 😉 😃
🎉i enjoyed it very muçh 🎉
Good! I'm glad to hear that Dorothy 😃
Yayyy. I'm looking forward to your current and future projects. I've learned most from you. Thank you for you. I don't know any dollhouse people. I really appreciate you. 🙏 I looked up your Home Mechanic book. It's available from the 1960s in online thrift book stores. P.S. Love those sleeves. Beautiful pattern.
You are so welcome Tara! I'll try and find the book online. My shirt sleeves you mean? Yes, I like the pattern too. It's a lovely shirt. I like wearing it. 😃
In building a 24 scale dollhouse, I recently built a real good toye 1/12 scale. I found the basic dimensions of a 1/24th colonial and am building based on those dimensions with 1/4 mdf board. Easy enough if you have a mini saw. The rest I go online and measure what the door frame is and build myself. Or in 1/12 th and divide by two. Most miniature products have the dimensions online. This is very useful. I'll also add additions like a conservatory ect..
Yes, I do that too. I just look up the real dimensions and divide them by whatever scale I need them for. I'm sure I'll be changing and adding some things to my build as well. That's part of the fun, isn't it? Are you using real house plans? I used to love reading some American decorating magazines with all the house plans in there.
I love your tiles. I want to make some for my Tudor house. I’d be so appreciative if you would tell me the width of plywood you use to make your room boxes for your dolls house. Thank you so much!
Hi Nancy, the plywood I use is 9mm thick. In inches, that would be slightly under 3/8 " I think. 😃
Oh, are you making me a grannyblanket? 😁
Yes, I totally had you in mind when I picked that colour Hellie! 🤓
Beautiful. Everything is beautiful. Does Loosdrechtse Porcelain factory still exist? I can't find their website anywhere. I also wonder how and with what you grout your gorgeous tiles?
Thank you Ulrike. No, the Loosdrechtse Porseleinfabriek was only in business for a short while, mostly in the last quarter of the 18th century. Their pieces were expensive and the company went bankrupt in 1782. Production then moved to Amsterdam (Amstel porselein). They were in production until 1820.
I use wall filler (spachtelmasse) as grout. If you like you can watch the tutorial I made about it a few years ago: ruclips.net/video/n2_p-SGS34g/видео.html 😃
@@MakeMiniatures Thank you. That's great. I'll do that.
I did find the book in England, ive got so many books so i didnt purchase it. The book is 1948. Ill have another look.
Thanks Marilyn! I'll see if I can find it too. 1948, a bit later than I thought. 😃
My grandmother called crochet, tatting, embroidery, etc "handiwork."
Was she of Dutch descent, perhaps? 😉
@@MakeMiniatures Actually, yes: Dutch and English. 😊
Tatting is a completely different thing from crochet. Perhaps you misunderstood what she was actually doing.
@@gailorr1088 She grouped all of them under the common title of handiwork. I do understand that tatting is a more complex skill. Yet, it does, indeed, involve the hands...working. Yes?
@@kelleykudu For sure handiwork is the correct word for this type of craft. Now that I have reread your comment I realize that she wasn't calling crochet tatting, which is what I was pointing out. Sorry about that.
hello, where did you get those metal flat weights? I’ve been looking for them all over the Internet. Warm wishes from Los Angeles, Dale.
PS your China painting is beautiful!
Hi Dale, the flat, square weights are steel bench blocks used in jewellery making and metalwork, available from jeweller's supply stores. I picked up the other two steel blocks at a thrift store.
Thank you! 😃
🎉hi josie 🎉😊
Hello Dorothy! 😃
What state were you hosted in America? What was your study? Interesting.
Pennsylvania. I was in High School then. Not much studying, to be honest. It was too easy 😂 It was more to experience living in another country. I had a fantastic year!
Pennsylvania. Wonderful and so much history. I really like the pre industrial styles, such as your Dutch houses. I'm doing a colonial house from my head, really. Real Good Toys has a kit and I took the width and length from there. I'll add one story rooms on both sides for a conservatory and workshop the other. I'm just looking at alot of colonial American houses and furniture too. I love the simplicity and quality like federalist. I'll keep you posted, my friend. It's an adventure!
Sounds wonderful! I like the symmetry with the classical influences on those houses. 😃
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