Hey, Mini Makers… Let’s Go Camping!

June 24, 2021Leave a comment

Online Event, July 24 -July 31, 2021

There will be a special, week-long NAME Camp Makamini event on create.miniatures.org from July 24th to July 31st. Participants will receive a daily camp newsletter; join in on free activities and a scavenger hunt; and receive prizes for wearing your Camp Makamini t-shirts while attending live Create sessions (see the sessions on the Create Calendar). Camp will finish with a ZOOM Campfire Event on July 31st.

Camp Makamini is free; t-shirts and workshops are optional! All members and non-members might want to plan to meet online that week to see old friends and make new ones!

More info about Camp Makamini.

The Camp Makamini optional workshop is this cabin in 1/4″ or 1/2″ scale.

Receive a prize for wearing your Camp Makamini t-shirt.

This information is offered as a service to the community of miniature enthusiasts. If you know of a miniature related event or have information/photos to share, please contact the N.A.M.E. N2 Region Webmaster.

Join NAME’s Camp Makamini

June 17, 2021June 15, 2021Leave a comment

Online, July 24 -July 31, 2021

Looking for something fun to do this Summer? How about spending some time at summer camp? NAME’s Create Team has a special event planned for you — Camp Makamini! NAME has set aside the last week in July for all things camp-related.

When you were young, Summer was a time filled with fun and adventure, and for many…a trip to summer camp. Camp Makamini is the summer camp of your imagination — it can be a vintage summer camp…or one decorated in glamping style — ready for you and your friends to get together to work on miniatures.

Whatever type of summer camp you imagine…it all starts with a cabin. So, we start our summer camp week off with a cabin workshop. The cabin workshop is available in quarter inch, or in half inch scale. Sorry, but a 1” scale cabin was too big to reasonably produce and ship.

The week continues with arts and crafts, quick minis and s’mores galore! Camp activities will be open to all, whether they sign up for a cabin or not. More information will be available in July, but in order to make sure your cabin arrives before camp starts, you need to sign up now.

More info about Camp Makamini on the Create website.

Online Event: Gingerbread Kaffeeklatsch and Build Day

October 15, 2020October 15, 2020Leave a comment

DATE: Saturday, November 21, 2020
LOCATION: online, via Zoom

Participants will be working on their choice of a micro or 1:48 gingerbread kit from True2Scale – regardless of when it was purchased. This is a free event hosted by Carol Kubrican (True2Scale). More info and registration

Ynez Fritsch: Quarter Scale Dutch House

August 20, 2020August 23, 2020Leave a comment

Ynez shared the following description of her project:
“This is a quarter scale Dutch house circa 1790. A fun project. These houses were a table project for the 2020 Portland Houseparty. Many of the wonderful items inside the house came from swaps by table mates. When the houseparty was cancelled, Carol Pitman, our table hostess, collected and distributed the swaps so that we could finish our houses during quarantine. I, like so many others, was so disappointed that we were not able to attend the houseparty – this was to be my first. Looking forward to 2021.”

Laura Seibert: Quarter Persuasion Project

August 4, 2020August 3, 2020Leave a comment

Laura Seibert’s quarter scale, lavender, little girl’s bedroom.

Laura shared the following description of her project:
“The Quarter Persuasion club made these ‘potting sheds’ over three years ago. Anne Walker designed the project, and cut the room box pieces for everyone in the group. I am not always prompt in finishing projects.”
“I was finally able to buy the doll I have been planning to buy for two years to complete this ‘lavender little girl’s bedroom’ in May, from Julie Stevens. I now have four of her dolls, and her teddy bear duo (panda bear and polar bear).“

Trish Billard: Cottage at the End of the Lane

August 11, 2017May 31, 2017Leave a comment

Trish exhibited these quarter scale houses at the NAME Sacramento Houseparty. Her description of the project:

“These three houses replicate the illustrations in “The Cottage at the End of the Lane, ” children’s dollhouse story by Elaine Mills. Debbie Young designed and built the kits and taught them as a series of classes. I bought the kits and altered them to even more closely resemble the houses in the story. All three houses have working lights powered from a battery pack hidden within the house. I made all the dolls. The crowded house alone has seventeen of them! Also made most of the animals.”

Trish Billard created these houses from Debbie Young’s kits based on the books, “A Cottage at the End of the Lane.”

Diane Ruess: Quarter Scale Scenes

June 1, 2017May 25, 2017Leave a comment

Diane exhibited several of her quarter scale projects at the NAME Sacramento Houseparty. Diane is from Redding, California.

Diane created this house from a kit by Suzanne and Andrew’s Miniatures. The house is called, “Creekside Studio.”

“Steamboat Folly,” a kit from Sue Herber. Diane filled it with artists kits from The Betterleys.

Diane created the shoe house and landscape from a kit by Suzanne and Andrew’s Miniatures.

A 1/4 scale version of Brooke Tucker’s Christmas room created from a kit by Susan Karatjas. The box is by Lucy Hansen.

True2Scale Workshop Announced

July 8, 2016July 12, 20161 Comment

1/4 Scale Kids’ Clubhouse

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True2Scale Workshop: 1/4 Scale Kids’ Clubhouse

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Interior of the clubhouse

In this workshop, we’ll recreate the bygone days when kids spent their summers playing pirates, cowboys and Indians; practicing with a slingshot, and playing checkers. As we reminisce about our childhood summers, we’ll assemble a 1/4 scale clubhouse, learn aging techniques for the exterior and interior, create “overgrown” landscaping, and have fun with local miniaturists. You’ll take home a completed structure and extra aging products. Cost: $80. Includes everything shown and lunch.

Saturday, August 20, 2016, 10 am – 3 pm
Petaluma, CA

Email Carol for more info or sign up online.