The Cozy Cat Complete: Part 2

 I completed this project in April 2021, after picking it up and letting it slide numerous times!  Although I had a few issues with it, overall I was quite happy with the end product.

I made it for my eldest daughter, who shares my love of books and cats, hence The Cozy Cat!

Street number above the door:

Welcome inside:

I've turned the lights on for you:

The cafe counter is on your left, for your coffee, tea and bakery needs:

And a comfy sofa to relax on is on your right:

There are plenty of books to chose from, including any magical textbooks you may require:

And finally, here is the bookstore cat, Maggie, is making herself comfortable:

The Cozy Cat Bookstore and Cafe Complete: Part 1

 I completed the Bookstore around a year ago, but because I am a bad blogger I never got around to posting it here.

I am pretty happy with the result.  It was made for my eldest daughter and she was pretty happy with it too and that's what matters most!

In this post I will quickly post some photos of the facade, and then the interior, next post.  Please excuse the glare on the photos!

The exterior of the Bookstore:

The Bookstore has interior lights:

The gold signage:

The front doors:

An Open sign in the window:

Cakes and pastries on display in the window:

A peek inside through the doors:

New Build: The Cozy Cat Bookstore and Cafe

This another project that I started over a year ago and then put on indefinite hold for several reasons, not the least of which was that we undertook real life renovations, including replacing the flooring throughout our whole house!

I'm still unboxing my minis and this project probably requires the least mess-making of my current WIPs, ha ha, an important consideration since I have been booted out of my craft area to make way for my husband who is working from home during the Covid-19 lockdown.

This project is going to be for my eldest daughter, who shares my love of books.  And really, is there anything better than a good book and a hot beverage to drink?

The scale is 1:12, and this is the façade of a shop room box I bought on eBay.  The kit came with stairs at the side and a railing along the rooftop, but it won't fit into her bookshelf for display with those on it, so I am omitting them.

So far I have painted the façade Hunter Green, and lined the interior of the box with embossed brick paper.  I've also constructed some bookshelves and painted them black and stained the timber skirting boards.  I'm going for a contemporary renovation of an old building kind of look?

Wish me luck!

The Mod Pod Build: Finished

After finishing off The Dressmaker's Cottage for my middle daughter, it was time to go back and finish off The Mod Pod for my youngest daughter!  The inspiration for the Mod Pod was the modern shipping containers converted into compact holiday homes which have appeared near beaches and lakes around the world recently.  You'll have to imagine that this Pod has a second Pod nearby containing the bathroom and laundry, ha ha, because this one only has a bedroom, kitchen and lounge!

I abandoned this build after I did a terrible job on putting together the under-bench stainless steel sink from an ELF kit.  It was first attempt at something like this but I was really dismayed at how it turned out - warped and with glue on the aluminium sheet :(  I didn't trust myself to finish off the kitchen then, so I started on another project.

Coming back to it now, I felt a little more confident - and a little less perfectionist about it, LOL.  The ELF kitchen was straight forward to assemble which was great.  I decided that you can't really see the sink anyway, so I left it as is and chalked it up to experience ;-)

After the kitchen, there wasn't much left to do except make a headboard and dress the bed, and attach the "concrete" ledge for the electric fireplace in the lounge.  Oh, and I ordered some 3D printed door handles from Marion Rissek's Shapeways store, for the sliding doors at the front!  It all came together pretty quickly after that.

It's very hard to take pictures of the front doors as the plastic reflects everything terribly!  I rook the doors off for a better view of the inside, but my pics of the whole Pod are not very good because of the reflections. Oh well!

This is the empty Pod before adding the interior.  The "glass" doors slide on each end towards the middle.

And here it is outside with the doors off:

The bedroom

With the sliding door in place:

The boho pillow, plant, Buddha, hanging lights, mirror, cross, surfboard and cane basket came from MiniHomeCoAu on Etsy.  The sign is from My Miniature Emporium ( also Etsy).

I made the bed, headboard and bedding.


The kitchen.

The doll (Chad), is a Heidi Ott doll, dressed in clothes and shoes from Lena Kristapchuk on Etsy.  The kitchen kit is ELF Miniatures, the coffee machine is also ELF, the knife block is Miniature Co, the bowl of yoghurt and fruit is Petite Boulangerie Au and the stools are My Miniature Emporium.

The lounge room.


In the lounge room, the chair and electric fire are from ELF Miniatures.  The rug and plants are from MiniHomeCo.  The side table and laptop are from Minimum World.

Here it is with the door on:

This is the kitchen and lounge together, for a better perspective.

With the lights on!

And the kitchen and bedroom together.

There are LOTS of things I would do differently if I were to do it again, but as my very first from-scratch build, it didn't turn out too badly! :-)