Miniature general store projects for dollhouses, roomboxes and dioramas
General stores, an older term used to describe smaller stores, one floor, sell just about everything...department stores are the modern version, larger with floors of merchandise
see kitchens, haberdashery,
Links to miniature projects
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- photo albums, blog posts, webpages
Country Store - by Rita Pierce
General Store - by Elk
General Store - from Miniature Madness Ann Masceli's Flickr album
General Store -by Ichar
General Store - by John Stapes
General Store Products
Ginzberg Department Store - by Fern Rouleau
Harold Parker's Store
Higgins General Store - by Raven's Wing
Meet the new Baby!
Stocking the store
What can I get for you?
Blogs
- Blogs concentrating on general stores or categories/labels about them in blogs
Groups
- Discussion groups, forums (or forum categories) and photo groups dedicated to general stores.
Supplies for sale
- Supplies needed for making general store projects.
Miniatures for sale
- Do you have a section for general stores in your shop? Add a direct link to that item here.
Books
- Books about miniature general store projects (also books with chapters about them)
Instructions for miniatures
Miniature printables
Wallpapers
- Wallpapers that go well with general store projects
Other Printies
- Book/magazine covers related to general stores
- look for vintage printies and can labels
Links
- links to sites showing how to make items related to general stores
Videos
- YouTube videos about miniature projects related to this subject
Research/ Inspiration
Things in a store:
- mops,and brooms in barrels with a sign "Brooms for sale x cents"
- feather dusters
- buckets
- garden tools
- hoses
- ribbons and laces
- long johns, dungarees, overalls
- coffee grinder
- mousetrap
- rat poison and fertilizer
- seed packages from printies.
- don't forget to post a few broadsheets.
- tinned and canned food
- Post office was also often in the general store. Make little letters and parcels and stamps.
- Cakes of soap, or a big block that could be cut up. Use Model Magic and paint with wood glue.
Tips/Hints
- For mops cut a bunch of cotton twine in a medium length. Gather into a bundle and tie a little bit down from one end of bundle. Shove a stained skewer with a bit of glue on the end up through the middle of the bundle the "wrong " way. Flip upside down and smooth the twine and then tie again with red thread. Wrap the thread around and put a dot of glue on the end.
- For a scrubber, cut the head off a child's toothbrush, sand both ends so they are even, drill a hole in the middle and insert a skewer.
Ideas about what is needed for these projects
Lincoln's General Store - c. 1850
Sturbridge Village Store
Window to the Past - by Grazhina
- ideas for shop names
- YouTube videos about the subject
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