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As Autumn surrounds us with its splendor, we at The Mini Time Machine Museum of Miniatures send our warmest wishes for a beautiful and bountiful season. This month we explore the amazing creativity and inventiveness of several miniature artisans. You will enjoy first hand video of IGMA Fellow, Connie Sauve, as she describes her inspiration and unique use of containers for the museum's recent exhibition Connie Sauve: Renovated and Restyled Miniatures. Nearly 16,500 museum visitors were absolutely enchanted by Connie's creations, and we're still hearing from them five months after the exhibit closed!

Look for a terrific miniature Wind-Chime How-To just in time for fall breezes, some neat tips and tricks from NAME's Leslie Hopwood and Lynn Jensen on using unusual containers and materials, and our own Minis Magnified look at a few ingenious containers for miniatures within the museum's collection. Miniatures at Large brings a brand new perspective on our art form with information on the new rage for Tilt Shift Photography.

To top it off, please meet ceramist, Craig Roberts, aka The Hairy Potter, whose full scale pottery becomes the perfect vessel for his meticulously crafted, and fantastically imagined, miniature scenes. I'll be enjoying the Harvest Moon this weekend knowing that, like miniatures, its beauty is something we can all appreciate more fully through sharing.

Shine on!

Meet IGMA Fellow, Connie Sauve, whose creative work was featured at The Mini Time Machine Museum during a past temporary exhibit.

 Connie Sauve: Renovated and Restyled Miniatures 

Miniatures at Large is a new column examining the broad appeal of miniatures. Written by TMTM Director of Marketing, Gentry Spronken.

"Tilt-shift photography (sometimes referred to as miniature faking) is a type of photography in which the camera is manipulated to create an image from a life-size scene, giving the illusion that it is a miniature or model." Click here to read the rest of this article 

Minis Magnified is a monthly in-depth look at one of the miniatures in our collection written by our very own Museum Services Manager, Emily Wolverton. This month, we will look at the Butcher Shop.

"We have many miniature scenes in our collection which go even further to stretch the imagination by drawing upon unique and innovative containers." Click here to read the rest of this article   

The Mini Time Machine's How To projects are created by Associate Director and Director of Education, Lisa Hastreiter-Lamb. Each project is designed for the beginning miniature maker with easy to find materials.

Click here for a pdf of this month's project: How to Create a Miniature Windchime.

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