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Category / Teeny Tiny Stuff

The Cutest Teapots You ever did See

My English friends love tea, naturally, but despite living in London for over 25 years, I never quite understood the obsession with ‘a good cuppa’. But these teapots, these teapots make me want to curl up in a kitschy English countryside cottage and make tea all damn day. Found on my long and perilous internet…

The Marvellous Mod World of Sci-Fi Supermarionettes

The last place we’d ever think to look for design inspiration would be the bygone genre of television puppetry, but here we are, drooling over the unlikeliest jackpot for mid-century modern style. Enter “Supermarionation”, a world devised in the 1960s by British television producers, with the ability to be at once sightly creepy, yet enviously chic…

This Flapper’s Dollhouse Cost More than Most People’s Homes

Of her most famous film, Jazz Age icon F. Scott Fitzgerald proclaimed, “I was the spark that lit up Flaming Youth, Colleen Moore was the torch.” She was a chief rival of Clara Bow and became one of the highest-paid and most fashionable movie stars in 1920s Hollywood. Colleen Moore had two passions: movies and dolls. Over…

Tiny Art in a Sardine Can

Most artists tend to think out of the box but this artist has gone back in the box– a sardine can to be exact. It’s safe to say Nathalie Alony enjoys working on a smaller scale and with her latest project, she’s created several series of miniature sculptures depicting anything from everyday life in little…

Welcome to the Birdhood

Just something I stumbled upon recently that was too fun not to share … Painted Jeff Canham and woodworker Luke Bartels collaborated to make this series of “seedy” urban establishments in 2012, a collection they called “For the Birds”. I love the little tongue in cheek details written on each of the houses and they…

FOOD P*RN: Tiny Temptations

Welcome to another edition of Messy Nessy’s Food P*rn … with a little twist. I’ve been keeping this post in my vault for quite a while but I think it’s finally time to share. Today we’ll be gawking at some miniature food art which looks just as tempting as the real thing. The only difference…

The Queen has an Eye-Watering Collection of Miniature Things

Today on the internet, I casually wandered into the Royal Collection online archives and discovered that the English royal family is just as nuts as I am about teeny tiny things. With over 3,000 miniatures, the history of collecting goes back as far as the Tudor times when Henry VIII starting acquiring them and miniaturists began holding…

Let’s Take a Tea Break at Beatrix Potter’s Cottage

It’s time for a little breather, don’t you think? So today, we’re popping over to Beatrix Potter’s old village, in the calm of England’s Lake District. We’ll stop by Buckle Yeat for a cup of tea, and stroll through the garden where so many of her children’s book characters — namely, Peter Rabbit — got…

And Now, a DIY Steampunk Trailer fit for Travelling the World in 80 Days

For some of us, DIY means hanging up a few picture frames at the weekend, or giving the garden shed a new lick of paint. For Dave Moult of Malmesbury in Wiltshire, England, DIY means building a teardrop trailer from scratch that Jules Verne would have been jealous of… This is actually the sixth teardrop trailer David…

When Injury Killed His Humble Dream, He Built a Whole Miniature World Instead

Death seemed to stalk Michael Zoettl from birth. His mother died when he was a child. He nearly drowned, then almost burned to death. When the Asiatic flu pandemic swept through Europe in 1889, killing 1.5 million worldwide, Michael fell ill and developed permanent heart palpitations. Zoettl was 14 years old when, in 1891, the German…

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