July Mini Show starts Thursday, New Kits and Carpets

 Time sure goes quickly!! Time for A Mini Miniature Show starting this Thursday until Sunday. I'm offering, during the show, Intro prices for a tufted crib, 2 side chairs, an Art Nouveau dresser, baby carpets and blankets in 3 designs and 2 new tufted carpet colours. Have a wonderful day!!

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3 Free Printables, Sepia Hooked Style Rugs for Miniatures or Crafts

After mentioning making miniature or dollhouse hooked rugs with bunka I remembered these Hooked Rug images from a 1932 vintage magazine. I scanned them, cleaned up the images for more clarity and colourized them in an autumn, sepia shade. These could be printed onto fabric and used as they are, coloured or used for bunka designs.There are other personal projects you could use these rugs for too. The first is a Grape-Vine Motif with an interesting border. The second would look good in a breakfast or dining room. The third rug's motive would look nice in front of a hearth or in an entrance way.

Mini Hugs, Jean

Free Printable Miniature Carpets or Rugs

This morning I thought I would add another couple more miniature dollhouse rugs or carpets to my blog. The top rug, which could be for a baby or children's room from the 20's on was from a vintage children's book that makes up into rooms. The second was from a small image in a magazine that I had to fiddle with in Photo Shop, it is a bit skewed but looks quite home made by rug hooking. Good for a house with a miniature lady who loves making had crafted items for her home. It might look nice in a farm house or older home by a bed or entrance way. A suede like fabric or fabric with a bit of a nap works well if you use an iron on transfer for your rugs.

I taught a bit of rug hooking years ago and I remember at the time and there was a group called The Happy Hookers, a very innocent group that loved to hook rugs. My mother used to hook rugs too and she would strip woven wool into many strips and dye them in lovely soft rose tones, she started a beautiful rug but never finished it, sometimes it is all about the journey. Making miniature hooked rugs with bits of pulled bunka glued onto a background with your design drawn on it is fun too. I did a few of those and they look good in many settings. There are also some miniaturists who make beautiful hooked rugs that I have bought from, wonderful work.

Mini Hugs, Jean

Free Printables a Rose Miniature Carpet, Baby in Pink Painting and Important Google Followers update

I thought miniaturist's might enjoy this carpet which can be printed onto fabric for other scales to for your personal projects. There was just a small part of it in an antique magazine but I loved the design so I cloned some of the parts and gradually turned it into a full carpet. The edges are not as nice as I would have liked them to be but if you could trim it or add fringe to match. I loved the baby painting and thought you might to. It is also from an antique magazine. I thought you might like to use it for gift cards or framed in miniature etc.

As of January 11 there will be an update on Google Blogs and I am posting the info below. I wanted to add this update from Google about everyone who is not Google Blog connected will be removed from our followers.

Posted: December 21, 2015

In 2011, we anounced the retirement of Google Friend Connect for all non-Blogger sites. We made an exception for Blogger to give readers an easy way to follow blogs using a variety of accounts. Yet over time, we’ve seen that most people sign into Friend Connect with a Google Account. So, in an effort to streamline, in the next few weeks we’ll be making some changes that will eventually require readers to have a Google Account to sign into Friend Connect and follow blogs.

As part of this plan, starting the week of January 11, we’ll remove the ability for people with Twitter, Yahoo, Orkut or other OpenId providers to sign in to Google Friend Connect and follow blogs. At the same time, we’ll remove non-Google Account profiles so you may see a decrease in your blog follower count.

We encourage you to tell affected readers (perhaps via a blog post), that if they use a non-Google Account to follow your blog, they need to sign up for a Google Account, and re-follow your blog. With a Google Account, they’ll get blogs added to their Reading List, making it easier for them to see the latest posts and activity of the blogs they follow.

We know how important followers are to all bloggers, but we believe this change will improve the experience for both you and your readers.

Posted by Michael Goddard, Software Engineer to Google Blog members

Free printable Carpets or Rugs and Stacking Boxes

These are printable carpets and stacking blocks that I created and offered as free printables on my blog a few years ago. It has been brought to my attention that the link I had for these images on 4 shared site is no longer valid so I have removed it.

You can also click on the image and then right click save it to your computer.

Cheers, Jean

More Free Miniature Printable Rugs

Happy Friday,

I have just added nine more free printable rugs to my 4shared file.
Please click here to download images

I've been organizing lately and it feels really good. Whenever I'm in a slump I usually organize. It has the wonderful effect of looking great after wards and I find things I had forgotten about that often are motivating. I moved around tables so I have more workspace and covered one work table with a new blue and yellow table cover. I placed two very colourful orange and yellow begonias on the table. Very inspiring! Creativity never really disappears, it just hides out in different environments sometimes and has to be rediscovered!!

We offer weekly specials on our web site with 33% off selected miniatures in various scales.

Cheers, Jean
http://jdayminis.com

New Free Miniature Printable Rugs

Happy Spring,

I've just added a new printable to download. It is a page with nine carpets, each carpet is two inches by three inches which makes them quarter scale carpets measuring to scale as 8 x 12 feet.
Half scale carpets would measure 4 x 6 feet or for one twelfth scale carpets 2 x 4 feet. You could probably enlarge them in a print program too.

I'm offering the same carpet in nine different colours. You could also use them for wrapping paper or for other ideas like bedspreads etc. I would love to hear your ideas. I like to print carpets on white flocked paper, silk, cotton or use an iron on transfer and iron them onto suede like fabric.
Here is the link to download the file.
http://www.4shared.com/dir/ILtK6LJE/sharing.html
I'm working on a new book of the month for April, hope to have it ready soon.

Cheers, Jean
http://jdayminis.com/