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liyazaki · 1 year
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I give you the (mostly) completed “alley behind Yok’s bar” book nook!
I wanted to add so many other details but was limited by the space. besides the tiny guitar, the yellow bottle on the bar is my favorite 😂
please imagine a cute lil hedgehog in the cage: I bought one & immediately lost it in my apartment 🙃
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liyazaki · 1 year
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I give you the beginnings of the alley behind Yok’s bar, book nook version!
edit: it’s complete (mostly)!
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liyazaki · 1 year
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Would you be willing to share more photos of your bookshelves or miniatures? For bookshelves, I'm just always curious to see people's shelves and you have that adorable jumping spider plush, and I fucking ADORE miniatures. I've never done any of the book nook kits though, I always do the dollhouses because I love dolls.
sorry this took forever- I’m obsessed with them too! do you make the full-on dollhouses? those things are a crazy amount of work. I’ve always wanted to make a gothic Addams family house...
I have a couple other minis in progress & now I want to make a Bad Buddy rooftop book nook, as if I didn't have enough projects in rotation 🤪 an ITSAY book nook is absolutely coming, once I can figure out how the hell to put the Promthep Cape cliff in there.
oh, and I just started needle felting & I'm already scheming BL project ideas...
I don't have a pic of the rest of my bookshelf, but it's mostly just nostalgic books from my childhood. I’m surrounded by books all day long, so a book has to be pretty special for me to buy a copy.
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☝ closeups of the KinnPorsche book nook I just finished!
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every piece of this was made by hand: the ceiling light, the microscopic drawer handles- all of it 🙃
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liyazaki · 1 year
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I just found out about book nooks because of you and I am fascinated. If you dont mind, can you share tips for beginners? Also, are you using wood? Thats amazing! How do you cut and paint the wood? Thank you!!!
happy to share! I've been making miniature art for years but just recently got into book nooks. so far, I've used kits you can get on Amazon as the base with my own additions & modifications. the great part about these kits is that everything is included (except any custom additions you want to make, obviously). if I ever get my 3D printer set up (& learn how to use it 🙃), I'll try making my own from scratch.
both kits use 100% pre-printed wood (i.e. no painting required) that's partially laser-cut ahead of time. you have to carefully remove the parts from the boards, do some sanding, a lot of assembly and basic wiring for the lights (also included). I'm pretty much always watching a show when I'm working on them, so the process is super meditative/therapeutic, even for my ADHD-riddled brain.
this is the kit I'm using for the KinnPorsche alley book nook (with a lot of modifications):
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I scored a bunch of awesome miniatures at a specialty shop while I was traveling in December- a guitar for Kim, a yellow bottle for the bar, a tiny cage, a hedgehog, koi fish- but I'm bummed because they turned out to be too big scale wise (they still fit; they just look a little ridiculous).
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look at that tiny lil guitar! how could I say no?
I spent way too much on them, though, so everyone better pretend they look perfect when I post the final product, capiche? great.
I used two kits for the Princess Mononoke book nook:
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I had to use tweezers to assemble the Spirit of the Forest because, I mean- *waves*. I plan on filling in the seam in the river, painting it & adding water gel for realism.
if you have other questions or just want to geek out over minis, come yell at me!
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liyazaki · 1 year
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I MADE Farmhouse bread- I spent two HOURS coloring the teensy tiny cellophane bag red, blue & yellow by hand- & forgot to put it in the alley.
I’m fired. like, from life.
edit: I added it/updated the video but the SHAME-
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liyazaki · 1 year
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what do we do when we're procrastinating on finishing our KinnPorsche book nook? we make another book nook, of course.
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