January 2025 - Faux hardscape
Using slices of floral foam and foam core this month members learned how to make faux hardscape features -- stone walls, rustic wooden walls and fences, and even some brick work.
February 2025 - Piette Point
Piette Point is really miniature cross stitch. The standard size is usually considered anything 28 count fabric and above, but it can be tricky to work that tiny the first time you try cross stitch, so members had a choice of 18, 22, 28, and 32 point fabric for their project. The kit included an embriody hoop, needles, needle threader, designs, and DMC floss, basically everything needed to get started on a Piette Point project. People started tiny rugs, throw pillows, and wall hangings this month.
March 2025 - Flooring seminar
Instead of a hand-on project this month is a seminar on how to build flooring from scratch.
April 2025 - Retro Record Player
Harken back to the days of LPs, 45s, and America's Top 40 with this month's project! The project is the record player, but why not complete the scene with some fabulous mid-century modern touches? Not only were record players made, but so were records, complete with album covers.
May 2025
This month is all amount making favors for the National Convention Tote Bags. The theme this year is "it's a small world" and CMS is proving this by providing a miniature map of the USA with Ohio colored in to show our location. More information about the NAME annual convention may be found here: NAME
June 2025
What do you do when you don't have any bread but want something to eat? Make a charcuterie board! Although the base size that will be provided as part of the class is 1:12 any size board could be used to build your display of nibbles.
AUGUST 2025 - Alarm Clock Ring-a-Ling
This month, at the crack of noon-ish, we'll be making a shadow box themed as an old-fashioned alarm clock. You be ringing in a new year, ringing in a Monday morning, or ignoring the ringing all together for something else, maybe a coffee station?
September 2025 -- Weathering, Damaging, and Aging to Perfection
This is not your mother's dollhouse! The fine art of miniature making isn't just about making brand new, perfectly designed, no wear-and-tear items, it's about doing anything to scale -- a weathered boat, an abandoned cottage, a water damaged room, once you start looking away from beautiful and start looking for the challenge of less than perfect scenes you may just find a whole new world possibilities. This month we'll be exploring these possibilities with a seminar on aging, damaging, and otherwise making your perfect room less than perfect (in a perfect way!).
