Making a Miniature Book Nook: Cozy Apothecary
As we enter cozy season, I've been very drawn to doing crafts in a small scale. Today's project is not really a tutorial, but a creative exploration. I'm working on a tiny room box filled with miniatures- many that I've made with simple materials. A book nook, traditionally, is a scale miniature room to nestle between the books on a bookshelf- essentially themed dollhouses for the detail-oriented artist. Today, I am making a simple version as just a fun craft experiment. Without having much of a plan, I set off to Dollar Tree to collect some very basic supplies to play with. While there, in the Halloween section, I found a small gift box shaped like a book! The cover reads,"The Complete Apothecary Anthology: Potions, Poisons, Elixirs, Tonics." I have established my theme. I imagined a witches apothecary inside the book, and I cooked up a plan to build a room for her.
Here I will list out all of the materials I used. Some things I had on hand, and just pulled from my stash of materials as I went.
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Supplies from Dollar Tree:
- Apothecary book box
- Laser cut wood stars
- Air dry clay
- Mini clip clamps
Other materials used:
- Scrapbook paper
- Glue stick
- Bone folder
- Low temp glue gun, glue sticks
- Pencil, scissors
- Miter Shears
- Popsicle sticks
- Craft paint, brushes
- Bottle cap
- Toothpicks
- Beads
- String lights
- LED tealight candle
- Tape
- Fabric
- Mini scrapbook brads- these were Making Memories brand
- Gold cotton cord
- Miniature books
- Tweezers
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