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Tiny Treasures: Amazing Miniatures You Can Make! (American Girl Library)

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A savvy friend gave this book to me after discovering that I'd found a Barbie Doll that looked like me (mortifyingly enough, in my mid-twenties). I opened this little hardcover/spiral combo and gasped aloud--exquisite little how-to's on oft-neglected areas of dollhouse fun...a Twister board, a Christmas Tree, flowerpots, wedding cake, croquet, team pennants... Some conceivably Barbie-sized, and many more traditionally dollhouse-sized, like the ballet tableau and the tiny bathtub scene. (There's definitely a scalable quality to the crafts, either way). Best yet, you're not paying $20 a pop in a toy store to have impersonal pink-&-purple logo-labelled uberfeminized fluff. Instead, the book gives you 21 little projects to create with common household/hobby items, and causes you to gaze speculatively at your old tinkertoys, wondering where your glue and paints are.

I highly recommend this for a creative doll-oriented child, and the whimsical adult (who knows better, but starts building a Barbie condo on the pantry shelves).

This is absolutely the most precious book. All the craft ideas use items that are easy to find. And the projects are not only easy to make, but a lot of fun. Definitely recommended.

It's just amazing what a child can make using these instructions. Two important points, though: The items are very intricate, so it's definitely not for every child; only for one who really enjoys making things with her hands. Also, it does require a list of supplies for each project.

Tiny Treasures was a great book! I can look through this book again and again to just find more things that amaze me! As I am a kid, I don't have enough money to make dollhouse/miniature collecting a full-time hobby, but I make things form the Tiny Treasures book and get ideas for my own things. People comment on the things I make from Tiny treasures and say they are great! I totally recommend this book!

I think this is a great book for fans of the AG craft pages that first introduced the tiny treasures.

I bought this for my niece based on the reviews and was very happy. She loved it and has made lots of the items in the book. Great gift for 9 year old girl.

This book is definitely worth getting! All the little "vignettes" are adorable - any little girl would love to make all of them!
And at the end of the book there is a fold out "room" to display your finished items! How cool is that?
Add a little box of odds and ends, with some craft glue and basic craft tools and you have a wonderful little gift!
Wouldn't I have just loved getting it when I was a kid!

This book is very cute and creative. Now alot of girls are building little house for little toys like keychains and those kind of things. This book helps them make beds and and lamps etc. This shows them how.

This is a good book for children who want to learn how to make miniatures.This book has many good projects for kids.This is a must for a child who wants to start making miniatures.

This is the most wonderful book for getting people started in miniatures and a great book for childeren I have made every project in the book almost and whenever I go over to a childs house I bring this book and stuff to make a project it is really great a must have book!