Tiny buildings made from card, packaging and whatnot

Sharon's Tiny Buildings blog features many delightful tiny buildings made from card, packaging, and odds and sods. This is my kind of model village.

The third 'chapel' happens to be an attempt to replicate the actual building, in a vineyard, where the reception was held. It is a beautiful old stone farm building, with a loft space for parties and weddings and such.

This invitation was handmade by the couple, with loads of patience, creativity, and joy, it seems. They used small strips of colorful illustrations from magazines and other sources to create obi-wrapped bundles of paper. The colors they selected evoked the Tuscany-like place they had their ceremony; and were a great contrast with the naive austerity of the printed invitation.

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[#1 posted by cinemajay , May 15, 2008 8:51 PM]

While the paper choices are interesting, the actual designs are kind of "meh". I was expecting some more elaborate constructions. Boing Boing has spoiled me so!

[#2 posted by smount , May 16, 2008 1:11 PM]

well, if you go to my original site and read the history and concept for the Tinybuildings, they may not seem so 'meh'. they aren't intended as design statements [god forbid] but as 'memory tweakers'...hence they usually replicate the actual structure ...as much as possible at 2 inches tall...or a iconic version of the structure's function..so, sorry no high design..well, not actually sorry..very proud.hahaha!

[#3 posted by Rickmccl , May 23, 2008 12:26 PM]

Ugh, you said "whatnot".