Buttercup Cottage Online Class
I will be teaching the Buttercup Cottage online via Create. Check it out here.
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Camp Make-A-Mini A-frame for 2025
This will be the 5th year for Camp Make-A-Mini and this year I am offering a project. We are headed to the Alpine forest (if you want) and will have…
Sweet Rose: Floors, Pink and Lighting
The Sweet Rose was an AI designed cottage that the Quarter Connection membership voted to have as a project. Debbie Young offered this project. I was on the fence about…
Camp Make-A-Mini 2024
The lovely project for this Camp was an Arts and Craft style building by Debbie Young. At first I didn't want to buy it. I just have so many unfinished…
Glass blowing Studio
For Camp Make-A-Mini (CMAM) this year, I designed three quick minis. These are items found in a glass blowing studio. If you just want to purchase these kits, go directly…
Honey House
My next project was switching gears from 1/144th to 1/48th scale. I'm getting back to the 2022 Betterley's Calendar Club that I got sidetracked from. The Honey House is number…
Book Houses
I have collected these adorable faux book boxes. Some I just couldn't resist a purchase. In the back of my mind was the thought I would make them for myself.…
Gone Gnome Crazy
well it happened, I've Gone Gnome Crazy. That's what my husband says. It started really simply with these guys . I think it was the bunny ears that convinced me…
Thankful for swaps
Happy Thanksgiving
Here in the US, we celebrate Thanksgiving. I was really pleased to be able to capture this holiday in miniature a few years back. I believe it gets easily skipped…
Once Upon a Time
This is number 7 of the Robin Betterley Secret Traveling Village, the 2022 series of monthly kits. The Exterior This was done much like the previous ones. The one issue…
Lillian’s Gold Bunny Box
On Quarter Connection they are talking about Unusual Containers, my favorite project type. They started with the Bunny shaped Ferro Roche box. I have one of these containers that I…
Mr. Hare
I recently took a class with Cat Wingler to sculpt and dress a rabbit. I signed up as soon as the class opened because I decided I wanted to learn…
Petite Chateau Roof
For 2023, the Create.miniatures.org team issued a challenge. It is to work on a big project as a year long challenge. I decided on my Petite Chateau. I plan to…
Needs Airbags
I spied the 'Bad Snowmen' by Blackthorn Miniatures and knew what I wanted to do with them. Give them to my Dad. I waited patiently for them to arrive and…
The Stitchery
No. 6 of the Robin Betterley 2022 calendar club kit is a seamstress shop. It's purple! Mulberry is mentioned but wow the color of the shingles is interesting. With paint…
Rags to Riches – a Gingerbread House Story
The create team was asked to turn a plastic house into something nicer. Plastic is not our normal material for a house. I was initially resistant until I found an…
The Potting Shed
No. 5 of the 2022 Robin Betterley monthly calendar club kits. For any other months I have finished check this page: The Secret Traveling Village Consider this a supplement and…
The Factory
Consider this a 'what not to do' or a supplement to the instructions included in the kit. When I first saw this one in person, I was not excited. I…
NAME Logo House – Interior
For Camp Make-a-Mini 2022 on create.miniatures.org we have a NAME Logo House as our project. I did a Lunch n Learn on adding lights to the house, to view click…
Party at number 3
Birthday Party
March Robin Betterley house kit is a Birthday party. Working on minis at the beach I went to the beach with friends and brought this kit to work on. My…
NAME Logo House – Exterior Box
Cleaning and priming I started by assembling the house because I wanted to check all the parts. I used blue tape to temporarily hold it together. Everything fit together really…
Bakery interior and exterior
The Bakery
February house by Robin Betterley Miniatures I feel off kilter working on this because it is April and now May, then June for finishing. Yet I am determined to get…
Can we keep him?
I signed up for the Quarter Connection In the Round Challenge swap recently. I knew just what I was making. That doesn't happen often - joining a swap and knowing…
Painter’s Cottage
the secret traveling village project by Robin Betterley's Miniatures JANUARY kit is a painter's cottage and adorable. I'm in love and I'm just the first month in. My Tips Edge…
On my way to the OLHP, I came across this
The Glass Slipper
On my way from the OLHP, I came across this shoebox, a little shop. On my way to the OLHP, I came across this As I approached it magically began…