Miniatures have always both fascinated and intimidated me. And then I saw this kit. A library. Come on. This was meant for me. Because I immediately saw the opportunity to customize it, to make it truly mine. With the books that I love.
So I present to you my first ever miniature room!
I used the Sam’s Study kit from Robotime, and I personalized it heavily. I hated the look of their books, they were bland. So was their artwork for the picture frames. There is exactly 3 pieces of paper from their kit in my design :P I also painted the furniture, upholstered the chair with an old piece of jeans instead of their cheap red fabric, and used spare fabric for the coffee table and the box. I changed the wallpaper, the flooring, and I added a coffee cup.
The cover scanning, Photoshop and image search alone took me around 40 hours. I loved every minute of it, haha! The assembly and painting took another 35 hours.
All the books made into miniatures are meaningful to me, all the artwork as well.
For the shelves, many titles are ones I own a copy of, but many are also filler because they’re pretty, and because most of the books I buy are in ebook format. And finding images of book spines online IS HARD. There are books I would’ve wanted to feature, but just couldn’t find a picture of the spine since they are not that mainstream. As I was listing these books, I had to refrain from also adding (OMG you have to read this!!) and I want to reread them all. Like right now.
Here follows a list of all the books I featured in this project, as well as all the artwork. If you see something I forgot in crediting the artists, something I got wrong, please let me know.
All the titles I made into miniature books (49 total!)
Ais & Hassell, Santino - In the Company of Shadows Series (custom covers by me)
Anonymous - The Silver Cage
A Charm of Magpies Series
The Secret Casebook of Simon Feximal
Collins, Susan - The Hunger Games Trilogy
Fox, Harper - Brothers of the Wild North Sea
Gaiman, Neil - Doctor Who and the Nightmare in Silver
Genao, Julio Alexi - When You Were Pixels
Hawk, Jordan L. - SPECTR Series 1 & 2
Hayward, L.J. - Death and the Devil Series
The House in the Cerulean Sea
The Bones Beneath my Skin
Tales From Verania Series
Lane, Jex - Beautiful Monsters Series
Miller, Madeleine - The Song of Achilles
Moning, Karen Marie - Darkfever
Parrish, Roan - The Remaking of Corbin Wale
Rowell, Rainbow - Simon Snow Series
Rowling, JK - Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
Sanderson, Brandon - Mistborn Trilogy
Sénécal, Patrick - Alyss
Taylor, Laini - Daughter of Smoke and Bones
Wendig, Chuck - Blackbirds
The Phoenix - thegorgonist on Tumblr
Dark Mansion Tarot (Eight of Sword, lady in red dress) - bubug on Deviantart
Art Nouveau Tarot (cup card) - AstroAmerica
One with Nature - Nisachar on Deviantart
Full Moon - vickisigh on Twitter
Savage Kitty - Apofiss on Deviantart
Dragons of Verania - CaptainTimber on Redbubble
Neverending Story Oracle - KikiDoodle on Etsy
Willow - PhilNoto on Tumblr
Herbology - amandaherzman on Instagram
Buffy - shirlero on Twitter
Retro TARDIS - MMPaperCo on Etsy
Robbie & Kelly - Mariana Avilez, mavilez on Tumblr
Mad Dog - Andrea Borgonovo
Sam of Wilds & Ryan Foxheart - emergencypizzaparty on Tumblr
Anne of Green Gables - Svalbard on Behance
Herbology - amandaherzman on Instagram
The sizes of the celestial bodies - Andreas Cellarius’ Harmonia Macrocosmica, from the collection of the Adler Planetarium.
SnowBaz - AhenuMoki on Redbubble
11th Doctor - CakesAndComics website
Gary the Unicorn - erlie on Tumblr
Gordo & the Raven - koeottipus on Instagram
Hsin & Boyd - andrie-art on Tumblr
Alphas - angrymuffin911 on Instagram
Mini Herb Lore Book - MyPorchPrints on Etsy
Sci-Fi Paperback Covers - mugmug on Behance
All the books on the shelves (from left to right , top to bottom)
Classic Cookbooks - Utensils Set - from Juniper Books
Andrew Lang’s Fairy Books
Penguin Clothbound Classics
Les Misérables - Victor Hugo
The Ring of the Nibelung - Richard Wagner
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Brontë
Encore to an Empty Room - Kevin Emerson
The Wicked Will Rise - Danielle Paige
The Beginning of Everything - Robyn Schneider
Things We Know by Heart - Jessi Kirby
Simon vs the Homo Sapien Agenda - Becky Albertalli
Darkest Powers Trilogy - Kelley Armstrong
The Giver Quartet - Lois Lowry
The Hunger Games Trilogy - Susan Collins
The Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis
Daughter of Smoke & Bones Trilogy - Laini Taylor
A Series of Unfortunate Events - Lemony Snickets
Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rick Riordan
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
Cranford - Elizabeth Gaskell
Tess of the D'Ubervilles - Thomas Hardy
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Crime and Punishement - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
Anne of Green Gables Series - Lucy Maud Montgomery
Fables Set - from Juniper Books
Science Fiction Classics Set - from Juniper Books
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - L. Frank Baum
The Wheel of Time - Robert Jordan
Harry Potter Series - J.K. Rowling
20th anniversary German Edition
Bloomsbury 2014 UK Edition Illustrated by Jonny Duddle
Puffin Hardcover Children’s Classics - from Juniper Books
Black Beauty - Anna Sewell
The Call of the Wild - Jack London
The Wind in the Willow - Kenneth Grahame
The Adventures of Robin Hood - Roger Lancelyn Green
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
Anne of Green Gable - Lucy Maud Montgomery
A Little Princess - Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Wizard of Oz - L. Frank Baum
Sherlock Holmes Series - Arthur Conan Doyle
Everyman’s Classics Children Collection
A Child’s Garden of Verses - R.L. Stevenson
A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys - Nathaniel Hawthorne
Fairy Tales - Hans Christian Andersen
The Everyman Anthology of Poetry for Children - Gillian Avery
English Fairy Tales - Joseph Jacobs
Fairy Tales - Brothers Grimm
Mother Goose’s Nursery Rhymes - Walter Jerrold
Jean de La Fontaine’s Fables
Russian Fairy Tales - Gillian Avery
Vintage Classics Children’s Books
The Bones Beneath my Skin
The House in the Cerulean Sea - TJ Klune
The God Eaters - Jessie Hajicek
Simon Snow Series - Rainbow Rowell (2 different editions)
Death and the Devil Series - L.J. Hayward
The Remaking of Corbin Wale - Roan Parrish
A Charm of Magpie Series - KJ Charles
The Rifter Series - Ginn Hale
Signs of Love Series - Anyta Sunday
Soulbound Series - Hayley Turner
Beautiful Monsters Serie - Jex Lane
The Silver Cage - Anonymous
The Song of Achilles - Madeleine Miller
The Priory of the Orange Tree - Samantha Shannon
SPECTR Series 1 & 2 - Jordan L. Hawk
Evenfall, Volumes 1 & 2 - Santino & Ais
(Not visible in pictures)
The Vampire Chronicles - Anne Rice
Lives of the Mayfair Witches - Anne Rice
Sci-Fi Paperback Covers - mugmug on Behance
Revisit the Classics Book Set
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
Hans Christian Andersen’s Tales
Anne of Green Gables - Lucy Maud Montgomery
The Wizard of Oz - L. Frank Baum
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
The Jungle Book - Rudyard Kipling
Mistborn Trilogy - Brandon Sanderson
The Amberlough Dossier - Lara Elena Donnelly
Shades of Magic - V. E. Schwab
Boys’ Adventure Penguin Books Series
Around the World in Eighty Days - Jules Verne
The Lost World - Arthur Conan Doyle
Tarzan of the Apes - Edgar Rice Burroughs
Greenmantle - John Buchan
Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
The Prisoner of Zenda - Anthony Hope
The Man Who Was Thursday - G.K. Chesterton
The Riddle of the Sands - Erskine Childers
Fever Series - Karen Marie Moning
Lord of the Ring - J.R.R. Tolkien
George Orwell Set from Juniper Books
Robert K. Massie’s Romanov Dynasty Set from Juniper Books
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