DIY Miniature accessories for the cardboard room box

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Playlist of videos for this project in order:
1. Here's where you can learn how to make your own cardboard room box/shadow box in 1:12 scale:
• EASY 1:12 dollhouse mi...
2. Cardboard Room Box floors, cereal box walls and tin ceiling
• DIY Ceiling, Walls & F...
3. Egg carton stones & grout technique for hearth
• DIY Egg Carton Stone F...
4. DIY Fireplace, tiles, faux flowers, painted chair+
• DIY Fireplace, Faux Fl...
5. DIY hearth broom, bear trap, bellows & peg shelf
• DIY hearth broom, bear...
6. DIY snowshoes from scratch
• DIY miniature Snowshoe...
7. Mini kettle made from a bead
• DIY miniature kettle o...
8. DIY potatoes, corner shelf, milk can made from trash, coal bucket
• DIY Miniature accessor...
In this video, I'm scratch building a corner shelf and making a milk can using a wire insulator and buttons. I'm hand painting the milk can with folk art style painting. I'm also adding a shelf of food, a crate of handmade air dry clay potatoes, completing a coal scuttle bucket mini kit and more.
I'm accessorizing my cardboard room box. It's only 3 inches deep but it looks deeper due to a forced perspective illusion. There's enough room for a fireplace, antique looking stove, a chair and lots of accessories. I made it using a damaged Home Depot box.
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Traditional broom
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[@lisawhitehall1870]

You're like the Bob Ross of Miniatures making❤

[@queencityminis]

Thank you so much ☺️

[@DawnDavidson]

Complete with a soothing voice! Someday I hope I’ll hear her saying that “some happy little trees live right here …” 😂

[@TheNetymags]

Someone may have already figured this out I’m sure, but if you take black acrylic paint and add baking powder it foams a bit and gives a great texture to any piece. I made an awesome wood fire stove. That’s something I learned in a video on here. What I found out by being lazy and not cleaning up and left over is once it dries it a really great way to make chunks of coal and ash!

[@queencityminis]

That's such a cool trick! I love learning new things from all of you. Thank you

[@Foxiepawstotti]

Oh, thank you, I will keep that I mind. I also really like the trick that Heather Tracy of Thicketworks used using superglue to harden layers of Cardstock so it can be filed and sanded like wood, she also used bicarbonate of soda to speed up superglue setting.

[@carrie4910]

The milk jug 😍 Well all of them are amazing but the miiiilk juuuug!

[@queencityminis]

Thank you! It's so stinking cute.

[@carrie4910]

@@queencityminis It is!!! I have just added another thing to my must build list 😝 I have a little lego milk can but its boring as heck, soooo going to dig out my buttons and paints to see what i can do.

[@queencityminis]

That sounds like a great idea. Have fun 😊

[@sandikalin636]

I’m so happy I found your channel. I’m working on a dollhouse I’ve had for 32 years, your videos are perfect for what I’m doing ❤️

[@queencityminis]

I'm so glad! Have fun working on your dollhouse.

[@nessiemonstercrafts]

Shyra, those potatoes! *chef's kiss* perfection, and I just adore that you showed the wee goof up with the dents

[@queencityminis]

🤣 I solemnly swear I will not repeat my potatoes mistake for a third time.

[@nessiemonstercrafts]

🤣🤣🤣

[@missyb.623]

To avoid doing math. I just can't help myself. These three buttons I planted here You make me smile.❤

[@queencityminis]

😆 Thank you! I am always finding shortcuts bc I'm a lazy miniaturist.

[@be_heard247]

Dude I noticed that line too! Made me chuckle for sure 😊

[@donnadass2952]

Love what you did! If you were going to add one more thing I’d add an old forgotten houseplant

[@queencityminis]

What a good idea!

[@vickytimmerman1365]

Peeling back cardstock to get a thinner price is brilliant

[@queencityminis]

Thank you :)

[@cecoya]

My mom taught me about the trash we find and 1-haired paint brushes lol. Did you know that the plastic jelly containers you get when you eat out can actually sub as a sink? or that the plastic syrup containers make great utility sinks? lol My Grandma taught me about the old wooden stick clothespins and making the people for the houses. You did GREAT with a wire container. You have a wonderful day

[@queencityminis]

Yes! I have a little stash of those jelly containers. Thank you

[@cecoya]

I love your channel. Very rarely do I find someone that is as adventurous with making things. @@queencityminis

[@melniee2551]

Oh I thought the potatoes were great, then you made the milk carton! Super!

[@queencityminis]

Thank you, thank you! I am really happy with how that turned out. It was fun to do as well.

[@fancifuldevices]

I love the technique you’ve mentioned before of adding shadows since minis don’t cast full sized shadows. Such a satisfying detail. Also how you really explain how and why you do things, where you got them etc. Even though I never make minis! Lol I love “to avoid doing math” 😂. My life’s constant aim. And that you make sure to show off when something was cheap! Minis are expensive and I love seeing others be frugal. Like everything you do pleases me!!!!

[@queencityminis]

Thank you for such a thoughtful comment :) I live for learning new tricks to avoid measuring and doing math 😆 It's usually successful. I'm the queen of eyeballing things.

[@WillinrowArts]

Love the sidewalk trash jug.

[@queencityminis]

Thank you :)

[@Foxiepawstotti]

The churn thingy is painted in the same style as metal buckets and other items that people who used to live and work on canal barges used to make their traditional look, its always been one of my favourites, it's usually flowers (which you really pulled off well considering how tiny) or castles. I didn't know it came from Germany because most people who know about it just call it canal boat art. I need to look at the ground more often, I have been know to pick up copper and other wire but if I see anything like you just found, I will be copying you, lol!

[@queencityminis]

Picking up a floppy rubber piece of trash off the ground it's probably not normal, but it was so perfectly shaped, I just had to.

[@NinaP-c5e]

Didnt they clean some time, and things were once new? Love the potatoes and milkbottle.

[@queencityminis]

Imagine how dirty this place would be if they didn't clean? I've lived in a house with a wood stove for heat and it gets very dusty.

[@samueljanzen2389]

I love how those "utensils" include a prybar and a screwdriver

[@queencityminis]

True 😆

[@maggieauterman3406]

I love the milk jug, you did an excellent job creating it. Everything looks so real.

[@queencityminis]

Thanks so much 😊 I'm glad I picked that piece of trash up and transformed it.

[@dollshousedilemmas6787]

What a talented lady you are love the coal scuttle.

[@queencityminis]

Thank you 😊

[@TaraFinlay]

"The correct order of events" = totally something I would say 😁. "It's probably best practice to clean your sidewalk trash shortly after you get home." You speak my language.

[@queencityminis]

Hahaha I think so! I was thinking the same thing when I was watching your channel.

[@sjayne267]

I've been ooohing and awwing over this creation especially when you scattered out "Buttons"!!! Love love love buttons!

[@queencityminis]

You MUST watch this video from Bentley House Minis. She used dozens of buttons making this alchemy lab room. It's incredible. It's the reason I bought a jar of buttons when I saw them at an antique store.

[@charlesperez9976]

Very fine work,I am impressed! I am a fan of your friend,Whitney, she has the incredible ability to shrink herself down,doesn’t she? I adore that.

[@queencityminis]

I know! Her editing skills are awesome. I wouldn't know where to start with that.

[@SuSang666]

Not long found your channel. Your work is breathtaking and I enjoy the commentary very much indeed! I used to make dioramas with primarily Skulpey and loved it. You are inspiring me to get back into it and expand my horizons. Thank you so much for your wonderful work.

[@queencityminis]

Awesome, thank you! Get back out there and make something.

[@elizabethmcgrath6198]

And once again I'm calm, Amazing work .

[@queencityminis]

Thank you 😊 That's great to hear

[@plantsoverpills1643]

Enjoy your tutorials. Your dexterity is impressive👍🏻

[@queencityminis]

Thank you very much! I love your username.

[@lindenjenesse5078]

I absolutely love your approach to your art; I'm so happy to have found your channel! When I lived in Colorado, longer ago than I care to admit, we had a wood-burning stove in the main living area for heat. We burned both wood and coal, starting and maintaining the fire with wood, and then adding a few pieces of coal which would burn hotter and slower, thus relieving the need to add wood through the night while sleeping. I now have rather a dislike for cast iron stoves, and much prefer central heat and air! Haha! Nevertheless, your coal scuttle is perfect, and I look forward to seeing more!

[@queencityminis]

That's so interesting! I used to live in a small town, and we had a wood stove as the sole source of heat. It was awful. Either my dad would get up in the night to feed the fire or we'd wake up freezing. I wish we had known the coal trick.

[@fancifuldevices]

Not to sound crazy but you’re using a much more idk, natural speaking style in this most recent video. I really love it. Now I can say your videos are 100% custom made to please me personally. Like. Weirdly perfect for me, a complete stranger lol.

[@queencityminis]

Thank you! For previous videos, I was recording the voiceover with a higher "gain". I have a really good mic and it picks up every little sound so I was trying to be quiet. I turned down the gain, and now I can speak in my normal voice.

[@fancifuldevices]

@@queencityminis I knew there had to be a reason! Man I’m brilliant.

[@normanshadow1]

Love, love, love it. And...I love your dead pan humor

[@queencityminis]

Thank you so much 💓

[@annieo9468]

I thought the pastel powder you mixed for the potatoes looked too orange...but when you were done...they were PERFECT ! NICE job on the little milk jug !

[@queencityminis]

I agree. I'm glad I saw that trick from Little Gretchen's Workshop to roll the potatoes in watered down black paint. It really mellowed out the color.

[@kat3910]

Absolutely fantastic. I love how you can look at trash and find a purpose for it! I have been collecting trash for a while now, too. I don't always know what I'm going to use it for, but I figure it will come to me at some point!

[@queencityminis]

Absolutely! To feel like less of a magpie, I organized my trash in a plastic organizer with drawers 😆

[@jamiegallier2106]

Everything has turned out awesome, enjoyed this build so much.

[@queencityminis]

Glad you like it! I still have one more video to finish this project. I need to make the food and decorate the top of the table.

[@karenmusa3052]

Omg I love the potatoes 😅🥰

[@queencityminis]

They're adorable 😆

[@karenmusa3052]

@@queencityminis they certainly are 😅🥰

[@faeryglamer]

Not sure how I got here, but now I've caught up with this one, I'm completely invested in the next. Lovely work!

[@queencityminis]

Welcome! Now you're addicted and you'll keep coming back. Muahahahaha

[@thecreativebohemian4927]

The shadow idea is brilliant! Never thought of it. ❤

[@queencityminis]

Thank you :) I added shadows under the cabinets in the miniature abandoned lab and it made a huge difference.

[@DawnDavidson]

Wow, that milk jug is astonishing.

[@queencityminis]

Thank you for watching 😊

[@risacrawford3775]

I so enjoy watching your videos. I learn something new every time. You are very talented. Thank you for sharing your skills!

[@queencityminis]

Thank you so much! 💓

[@barbararosensteel8031]

I love the little robe.

[@GinasMiniatureStudio]

That is such a clever idea using buttons and trash for the milk jug, you must be so happy with the result, it looks awesome and well done on the paint job, you absolutely nailed it 😊

[@queencityminis]

Thanks so much 😊 I was thinking of your miniature paintings when I decided to give it a shot! I had initially planned to paint it to look like metal.

[@maneeratromtrairat174]

very details that you put in this project are amazing .Thanks for sharing very process with us .

[@queencityminis]

My pleasure 🙏

[@lolasworldofminis]

You have such a rich knowledge of painting techniques!

[@queencityminis]

Thank you so much 😀

[@jojosmumdorothy2829]

Love the potatoes 🥔 they remind me of dry roasted nuts lol 😆

[@queencityminis]

Now they remind me of dry roasted nuts 🤣

[@Icklekitchen]

This is amazing well done 😊

[@queencityminis]

Thank you! 😊 I can't wait to see what like framed and hung on my wall.

[@Icklekitchen]

@@queencityminis 😊

[@SuzanneBaruch]

My favorite was the little potatoes. So realistic! You're very talented.

[@queencityminis]

Thanks so much 😊 They're easy to make.

[@estherm7070]

That is sooo adorable. I love the milk jug. Everytime I watch you I learn something new. Being a beginner with minis I have no idea what I’m doing half the time. But by watching you and Ara you both teach me so much and more. Now I know how to make potatoes 🥔 ! By following your directions,I just finished my room box. Now to fill it with mini ideas. Thank you, your so amazing.💐

[@queencityminis]

That's great! Did you make a cardboard room box too? Make sure you check out TinyKeyHoleMinis and Little Gretchen's Workshop on KZbin. You'll definitely learn from them too.

[@estherm7070]

Yep I sure did make a cardboard room box. Followed your every step. It came out so cute. Thank you.

[@queencityminis]

@@estherm7070 that is so cool! I love that people are making their own miniatures. This is such a fun hobby.

[@NoName-wt6is]

Amazing! I look forward to your videos.

[@queencityminis]

Glad you like them! That makes me happy 😊

[@sarapiburn2523]

Love everything but the potatoes are adorable!💜💜💜

[@queencityminis]

Thank you :) They're fun and easy to make. I forgot to mention in the video, but you can roll them on crinkled and flattened aluminum foil to add texture if you don't have a ball stylus.

[@jasminegomez822]

Wow, so creative ❤

[@queencityminis]

Many many thanks

[@marymary377]

I was so happy to see this video! Just adorable. Love the potatoes, and the milk jug is precious. It is really coming together nicely! :)

[@queencityminis]

Thank you :) The potatoes are so cute, but I can't believe I made the same mistake I made the first time I made them 😅 I swear I won't do that a third time. I can't even believe how many 1:12 scale minis can fit in a 3 inch deep cardboard room box.

[@carol-annegriffin6234]

You wondered about a coal bucket when you weren't sure as to whether an old-fashioned stove would use coal or wood - I heat my home with a wood stove, and I have a coal bucket sitting beside it! When I clean out the stove each morning to start fresh, the leftover coals from overnight are still too hot to do anything safely other than let them cool in a metal bucket. So your choice is totally accurate! :)

[@queencityminis]

Thank you! I used to live in a house with only a wood stove for heat. We did the same thing. Heating with wood is a lot of mess and work.

[@carol-annegriffin6234]

@@queencityminis Oh, whoopsie, I didn't realize you also had IRL wood stove experience! It is messy but for me it is also free heat! :)

[@korin12law]

Just loving how this is coming together. I love a full cluttered space. Makes it feel very homey.

[@queencityminis]

Me too! Clutter bugs me in real life but I love it in miniature.

[@TaraFinlay]

Love it! Especially the trash to treasure milk jug transformation.

[@queencityminis]

Thank you! Although every time I end up using a piece of trash I've hoarded, it encourages me to hoard more trash 😆 I have a large collection.

[@marionsp3692]

Wow, beautyful 😍

[@queencityminis]

Thank you! 😊

[@ritaeppard5059]

Wow, I'm glad to hear of your potato goof. It sounds like something I would do. Lol

[@queencityminis]

I really hope I never do it again, but I wouldn't be shocked 😆

[@littlegretchensworkshop7665]

EXCELLENT VIDEO! I LOVED EVERYTHING! Especially the utensil can, coal bucket milk can and how you avoided measuring shelves! Thank you for the mention! 😍 Also, I love how you admitted "collecting trash" it's so true All true miniaturist do it!!! Go Queen!!!😅

[@queencityminis]

Hahaha thank you! You know how it is. When you can make things from trash, nothing seems like trash anymore. Everything is just material.

[@marlenejones6266]

New subbie here. This is something I would love to start. Mini things are so cute and so much fun. I'm going to begin your videos. Your soft voice is calming for me since I have anxiety issues. Thank you for this lovely fun way to pass time.

[@queencityminis]

Thank you so much! I used to struggle with debilitating anxiety. I was agoraphobic and had panic attack disorder. It was a very hard period of my life, about 10 years. At my worst, I couldn't work and was on disability and barely left my house. Dr. David Carbonell's books, The Panic Attacks Workbook and the Worry Trick, helped me change my life. I didn't have money for a therapist or health insurance. His website is www.anxietycoach.com.

[@DidiWaDidi]

The potatoes really turned out good. They look very realistic. Incredible details on everything.

[@queencityminis]

Thanks so much 😊

[@vinnytnecniv]

Great videos, You sound like Lana Del Ray.

[@queencityminis]

You think so? Thank you!

[@MaryGatdula]

Love the milk jug! I think your artwork detail is excellent 👌!

[@queencityminis]

Thank you so much 😀 It's kind of like an impressionist painting. Up close, it doesn't look like much, but from a short distance away, it looks good! I think that's called passing the "across the room" test.

[@klaird_h4727]

This is soo cute Shyra!🥰 Each episode, adds to the over all affect!🙌🏾

[@queencityminis]

Thank you :) There may be one more episode, but perhaps two.

[@jantucker9355]

Another great video. I especially like the milk jug. Great paint job. You always crack me up.😊 Nice work.

[@queencityminis]

Thank you 😊 I'm glad the milk jug is resonating.

[@amosminiatures3945]

absolutely amazing 👌

[@queencityminis]

Thank you so much 💓

[@recoveringsoul755]

those potatoes look great, very realistic. Are those more potatoes in the chair? And whatever you used for the milk jug was great too. When I saw the reference image, I thought the red blobs were apples. I really need new glasses. This little room is getting quite crowded!!

[@queencityminis]

Thank you! Those are eggs in the bowl on the chair. They're made of plastic. They're actually a bit out of scale for chicken's eggs. I think the milk jug is made from a wire insulator but I kept calling it a pipe insulator in voiceover. I had to go back and fix it. Voiceover is the worst part! Haha I need new glasses too

[@karmagal78]

For dust bunnies (and absolutely free, too), keep dryer lint after cleaning out the lint trap.

[@queencityminis]

Great tip! Thank you. I have a bucket of dryer lint in the basement.

[@karmagal78]

You’re welcome! Might as well put dryer lint to good use! Plus, it’s free!

[@nuriaarandes1258]

Fantastico! Precioso! 🤩😍🥰👍

[@queencityminis]

Thank you :)

[@tinykeyholeminis]

This is quite a Masterpiece!🥰💖 Love the shelves and that milk jug is amazing! Your video is almost like ASMR with those natural sound effects..😆 it was very satisfying! 🥰

[@queencityminis]

Thank you! I'm always trying to do better with editing etc. It takes extra time and effort to keep the ambient sounds, but if that's what the people want, that's what they'll get! My cats cry a lot and ruin clips but it's mostly good to use 😆

[@tinykeyholeminis]

@@queencityminis I could never record with audio, my house is the loud house, you would here my grandson playing hide in seek, the dogs barking, the adults talking..grammy yelling bc she cant hear..it's very live here with 4 generations 🤣 I have to do voice overs when the house is asleep!!

[@heathermartinez8640]

Great additions! The milk jug is awesome!

[@queencityminis]

Thank you 😊 I picked up that wire insulator or whatever it is bc I thought it looked like a milk jug so I'm glad that's what it eventually became. It's technically "too small" but there are milk jugs in multiple sizes so whatever. A 2" tall milk jug would be a bit bit for that space.

[@matishtar]

It looks amazing! I'm in love with that old-timey maximalist aesthetic, it feels so cozy. The details are spot on. I keep saying it, but thank you for the inspiration!

[@queencityminis]

Thank you so much! You're very welcome

[@elisesterling9634]

Your milk jug is so awesome! You did very well with the painting. As a painter, it’s easiest to lay down the light color of the body, then paint the scalloped rim. I’m so inspired. I haven’t made a miniature yet. What do you think is a good first project?

[@queencityminis]

Thank you so much 😀 I think a simple kit is a great way to start. You can add custom details. I like robinbetterley.com

[@ghoulgoil5029]

It’s really coming along. Soooo many cute details! The jug is precious!

[@queencityminis]

Thank you! 😊 It's fun when the last minute detail turns out great.

[@agm97ga]

Love all of these ideas. Love all that you have put into it! TFS

[@queencityminis]

Thank you :) I am loving how this is turning out!

[@yelenaday]

Really cool! I loved watching this come together.🙂

[@queencityminis]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@debbralehrman5957]

Thanks 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 🎁🕯🌟🕯🎁

[@queencityminis]

You’re welcome 😊

[@ZoeShears]

Hi from a new subscriber, I'm loving how this little kitchen is coming along and it's helping spark creative thinking in me for the kitchen I'm about to create 😀

[@queencityminis]

That's great to hear 😀 I'm happy you're getting some ideas of what you want to do.

[@lolasworldofminis]

Do you have a suggestion for where to get that metal file? Not sure if it’s a crafting one, but when you talk about a tool more than once, I buy it 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@queencityminis]

It was given to me. I'd check out Harbor Freight

[@goforitpainting]

Professional

[@queencityminis]

Thank you :)

[@KerriGilpin]

I know this is 8mo old when I’m commenting, but I paint a lot of small things and I use a fine but longer bristle brush, I know it seems counterintuitive, but somehow it allows for even smaller and finer movements with paint than a fine shorter brush. 😁

[@queencityminis]

Thank you for the tip! I have small pointy brushes with longer bristles, but I've never used them. I'll have to give them a try the next time I'm painting something tiny.

[@KerriGilpin]

Oh, also, I discovered you via Ara, thought you’d like to know 😁👍

[@TheOriginalOrkdoop]

I'm late too, but I wanted to add that a dotting tool in different sizes, usually used for nail art, would work great for tiny art. Dipped in enough paint, you can kind of draw with it like a pencil. I'm a new subscriber and have been binge watching. 😊

[@SusanYeske701]

Just fyi, in case you don't know, youtube has dropped like 5 different ad breaks into your video not counting the start and ending ones

[@queencityminis]

Oh wow. I was placing the ads myself but started choosing for them to place them automatically. That's an obnoxious amount of ads. They don't show me where they're placing the ads before I publish. Thanks for the heads up.

[@liacosta527]

PUXA!!! NÃO ENSINA COMO FAZ AS MINIATURAS???

[@claudiaschiel4275]

😘😘 umwerfend, direkt abonniert

[@queencityminis]

Thank you!

[@michellehicks6898]

On gosh, girl, how many miniatures do you have?😂

[@queencityminis]

Not enough? 🤣

[@michellehicks6898]

@@queencityminis lol, I think making miniatures and buying miniatures are too different hobbies

[@queencityminis]

@@michellehicks6898 That's very true! I have a TON of miniatures because I bought 14 boxes all at once from a yard sale app for $180 or something crazy. Then I got more stuff...

[@CraftyTan]

I would to see some coal on the floor and also the stove to light up :)

[@queencityminis]

Here's your coal on the floor & more kzbin.info/www/bejne/i6vNkJqoh6iEkKc&feature=share8 Lighting up the stove is such a great idea! There aren't any holes in the door to show it off, though.

[@CraftyTan]

@@queencityminis make it open and close

[@CraftyTan]

@@queencityminis oooooo screw a few holes in the door bit

[@kevincoon1809]

Meh dirty sidewalk trash just adds character. Ohhhh wish I would've known that curling paper trick yesterday. I was making a pipe for a smelter I'm making and putting the little paper rings on it sucked

[@queencityminis]

I know. It's a great tip. I was curling paper by wrapping it around a marker. It didn't work well. I love getting tips and tricks from viewers.

[@kevincoon1809]

@@queencityminis that's what I was doing too. It doesn't break the paper enough to be flexible enough to make a circle so it's a pain in the ass to get it lined up and you gotta hold it. I'm gonna try that finger nail thing

[@brigittepoignant1071]

Bonsoir ou peut on trouver des miniatures en France merci

[@queencityminis]

I've never been to France but maybe you could visit La Boite a Joujoux in Paris. It's a toy and miniature shop.

[@bubbles2868]

I would have colored the clay first before making potatoes

[@queencityminis]

I did. The first batch was too brown, so I made them again with lighter clay since russet potatoes are almost white inside.