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Everybody can have a book nook, take a look!

3 years ago

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Book nook shelf insert

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pudgeder
3 years ago
Well, whodda thunk??
carolb_w_fl_coastal_9b
3 years ago
last modified: 3 years ago
Magical ☺️

Didn't someone post something similar in one of the older discussions about miniatures?
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terezosa / terriks
3 years ago
Very cool!
eld6161
3 years ago
I love miniatures.
lyfia
3 years ago
Those are really cool. I may have to get one for my kid to do for her room and one for myself, although I'm not sure when I'd find the time to do it.
Jilly
3 years ago
That’s so neat! Thanks for sharing, I think my DD would love this.
bpath
3 years ago
Wouldn’t it be a fun home for Pod, Homily, and Arietty (The Borrowers)?
Oakley
Original Author
3 years ago
Lyfia, I'd cheat because there's no way I could make all the items. Miniature fairy garden pieces along with a small strand of fairy lights would be fun.

Bpath, that would be cute!
schoolhouse_gwagain
3 years ago
I really love this. I don't think I have the patience anymore to do my own tho.
terezosa / terriks
3 years ago
"Didn't someone post something similar in one of the older discussions about miniatures?"

Was it these miniatures in the foundations of buildings on city streets?

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2020/08/anonymouse-miniatures/

This is their Instagram account

https://www.instagram.com/anonymouse_mmx/
l pinkmountain
3 years ago
I am actually ruminating on an idea for creating a shelf in my room dedicated to a book theme. And then have a series of displays I can rotate out. I think that would be a great hobby for a young person, particularly one stuck at home during a pandemic. One could create their own mini-worlds. This is an outgrowth of my fairy garden hobby. I had it as a kid and now with my own yard finally am picking it up again but realizing I can take it inside to one of my window shelves . . .

The one I am working on now is based on "Peter Rabbit." But other busier life pursuits keep moving it to the back burner . . .
carolb_w_fl_coastal_9b
3 years ago
last modified: 3 years ago
Maybe it wasn't on this forum, but I distinctly recall seeing a series of those 'book nooks' some time last year.

P.S. MessyNessyChic.com has an article about them too:

https://www.messynessychic.com/2020/02/19/theres-a-major-hole-in-the-market-for-book-nooks-waiting-to-be-filled/

Perhaps I saw it on FB...
Oakley
Original Author
3 years ago
last modified: 3 years ago
I remembered, it was a topic on dioramas. A diorama can be placed anywhere, and book nook goes in a bookshelf.

When I googled diorama earlier today I found this on Amazon

I sure wish I'd known about it before Christmas, it would have made a great gift.

Thanks to moi, DGD has a lot of miniature fairy things I just might have to take back and play with myself. :)
Indigo Rose
3 years ago
Cool!! These remind me of the shoe box dioramas we built as kids.
bpath
3 years ago
last modified: 3 years ago
I need a bookshelf diorama for my son. Maybe a playhouse, for his theater work? But it looks like they take up actual bookshelf space! Oh no! Lol

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