{"id":4488,"date":"2009-06-18T03:54:46","date_gmt":"2009-06-18T10:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/?p=4488"},"modified":"2009-06-17T16:10:40","modified_gmt":"2009-06-17T23:10:40","slug":"making-miniature-food-for-dollhouses-barbies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/making-miniature-food-for-dollhouses-barbies\/4488\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Miniature Food for Dollhouses and Barbie’s | Size Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Polymer<\/p>\n

Oops… the Cupcakes are as Big as the Hamburger!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

My 5 year old niece has a birthday coming up. She is crazy about Barbie dolls, so I decided to make some miniature dollhouse food to give to her as a present. But as you can see in today’s photo,<\/span> I clearly need more practice with scale.<\/span><\/p>\n

As much as I would love to live in a world where cupcakes were the size of hamburgers, I am sure that Barbie would refuse to eat them for fear of ruining her figure! LOL<\/span><\/p>\n

Although I very much enjoyed making these little treats, I definitely need to dig out my daughter’s old Barbie collection for reference… instead of just trying to figure out the proper scale in my head.<\/span><\/p>\n

No worries though… when I do find Willow’s Barbie’s (she never really played with them much.. more of a stuffed animal girl)<\/em>, I will see which of my creations will actually work for Barbie food, and then make the others into jewelry charms.<\/span><\/p>\n

There are lots more miniature food items I’d like to make for my niece. So with any luck I’ll be able to make them in a proper scale for her dolls to be able to eat.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hey, it would be fun to use scented polymer clay<\/a> for these tiny food pieces. My niece is old enough now that she won’t be tempted to eat them, even if they do smell yummy!<\/span><\/p>\n

I’ve still got a lot to learn about miniature sculpting, but I can already tell it’s going to be tons of fun. And the upside about small, is that if you mess up, you won’t have wasted hardly any polymer clay!<\/span><\/p>\n

Off to find Barbie and make some play food that will go straight to her hips. She’s getting a little too skinny any ways! Please share your stories about making miniatures. What tricks do you use to get the scale accurate?<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Cindy\"Polymer<\/p>\n

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