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Category / Teeny Tiny Stuff

The Miniature Roadside Chapels of Greece

Traveling the roads of Greece these past few days, it hasn’t taken long for the dollhouse-sized roadside chapels to become a bit of an obsession for me– which means stopping the car at every single one to snap a photo, of course. Some are elaborate little things made of terracotta or even marble, plonked in…

A Miniature Bohemian World

This is the beautifully bohemian (and slightly mad) small world of French artist Ronan-Jim Sevellec. At 80 years of age, his most recent exposition was in 2012 and saw his boxes of tiny artist’s workshops and old antique rooms displayed in various eccentric and romantic locations around Paris. Ronan spent much of his childhood hanging…

Postcards from Hobbiton

Fans of The Lord of the Rings: unite! Non-fans who just like film sets and may or may not have Elvish tattoos anyway: unite! Oh, just me? Weird. Today we’re tumbling down the wildly intriguing rabbit hole and landing in some Hobbit Holes! In 1998, when Peter Jackson was scouting for the perfect location to…

Stop Everything and Check out these Tiny Hand-painted Wes Anderson Sets

When I come across anything Wes Anderson related, I really do just stop everything and prepare myself for a delightful treat. And this particular nugget I came across today certainly didn’t disappoint. How about these perfect little watercolored paper dioramas inspired by my favourite Anderson film sets– tiny Mendl’s cakes and Darjeeling luggage sets included! Mar Cerdà is a Barcelona-based…

Oh, Just an Abandoned Hobbit Castle Built for Sheep

Having spent seven years surfing what I’ve come to call the “underweb”, I’ll tell ya, it takes some pretty weird stuff to surprise me these days. But this? This restores my faith in the internet’s ability to never run out of obscure things to show me. Behold “Colin’s Barn”, an eccentric hobbit-like superstructure built in the 1980s by…

Stop Everything and take a Tour of this Museum of Miniatures

The exquisite detail under the roof of Taiwan’s miniature museum is enough to make you teary-eyed. It was the first museum to collect miniatures in Asia, founded in 1997 and now ranked the 2nd biggest collection in the world– not bad for an off the beaten path museum hiding in the basement of an office building.…

Stop Everything, Allow Your Inner Child to Enjoy these Adorable Felt Sculptures

Nope, there was absolutely nothing that was going to stop me from dedicating an entire post to these soul-wrenchingly adorable little fluffy felt sculptures. I don’t know about you, but me and my inner child really needed this today. We’re looking at the work of Cat Rabbit, the creation of a Melbourne-based textile artist who’s…

Here’s a Menu of Tiny Houses for your Weekend DIY Project

Assuming that you’ve already mastered the art of IKEA furniture assemblage, here’s something to take your DIY talents to the next level. This is “France”, a tiny patriotic shed that can be virtually snapped together in 3 hours and costs $1,200, complete with three zones including the “night zone”, the communal area “day zone” and the red-coloured “heating…

These Miniature Japanese Paper Crafts are the Antidote to Pokemon

Somewhere in between Lego and Origami, is the world of Japanese miniature paper crafts. I know, I’ve been on the weird and wonderful side of the internet again today, getting very familiar with a company called Sankei, a Japanese paper craft company that sells all their scale model paper craft kits on Amazon. While you’re…

Inside a Miniature Miss Havisham Mansion

I haven’t owned a dollhouse since I was a kid so I really don’t know what I would do with this stuff, but I’ve nevertheless developed a strange addiction to browsing miniature shops on Etsy. There’s one shop in particular that stands out to me for all its eerie bohemian and romantic oddity. Lady Delaney,…

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