Greetings and salutations! I’m new so am introducing myself. My name is Tiger, and I make what I’ve been calling Portable Sherlock Holmes Mysteries. They are essentially miniature versions of Sherlock Holmes stories - a scene from a certain part of the story along with miniature recreations of all the important clues, which are contained in a box of some sort. Lately I’ve been leaving all of the furniture loose so that it sort of works like a dollhouse in that people can arrange it themselves. Here is an example of a finished box:
Above is “The Adventure of the Dying Detective,” which was largely set in Holmes’s bedroom. The fireplace lights up. I try to make it as accurate as possible according to the original story. For example, it was mentioned that Holmes had pictures of criminals on his wall, so I hung an illustration of his infamous nemesis, Moriarty, as well as a real contemporary criminal named Charlie Peace. I’m on the autism spectrum (also with ADHD, so ya, I’m a bit eccentric, but I’m nice) and Sherlock Holmes is my current hyperfixation, so I find it extremely satisfying to add as many details from the original stories as I can. I reread each story before starting a new box and comb through for all the detail I can find and recreate. It’s fun to make a story multiple times and find that I can make more things each time because my skills are always improving.
So ya, those are my boxes I have done all kinds of other crafty things and was particularly fond of knitting, but these miniatures have basically consumed my creative life at this point because I find them so eminently satisfying to make. I put on some music or some old time radio and lose myself in another world while I’m making someone else their own special little world into which they can escape for a minute or two. I’m glad my friend suggested this forum to me, there’s so much good work on here, I think it will be fun. Thanks.
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Welcome!
We love dioramas and anything miniature here! I am always fascinated by the details and how they are made on such a small scale.
Welcome to Lettuce Craft! I think you’ll find that we are all about the details and your works will be deeply appreciated. This one is amazing! I love that you included a contemporary IRL criminal.
I’ve made perhaps 75 by now, but I wasn’t always making full scenes like this one. When I started out I was just recreating miniature versions of the important clues from a story, then putting them in a box so that it was like a game - “What case did Sherlock Holmes solve with these clues?” And I would include the answer in an envelope. Now that I’m doing full scenes it takes me longer, so my output has slowed, but they’re so much fun. I used to leave the simpler versions laying around in bookstores or the library or the park, or I would give them to people I interact with regularly who are really nice, like cashiers at the stores where I buy supplies etc. Now that I’m spending so much time on them I’ve been giving them away to Sherlock Holmes fans specifically. I meet them on Tumblr or in my Sherlock Holmes scion societies (groups of ultra mega nerds who hang out together and analyze literature from the 1880s.) I often get gifts from people in return and this delights me, and that’s why my friend directed me here - for the swaps. So I’m excited! Thank you for the compliments
I have done all kinds of other crafty things and was particularly fond of knitting, but these miniatures have basically consumed my creative life at this point because I find them so eminently satisfying to make. I put on some music or some old time radio and lose myself in another world while I’m making someone else their own special little world into which they can escape for a minute or two. I’m glad my friend suggested this forum to me, there’s so much good work on here, I think it will be fun. Thanks.