Mini sleep cabin

[nid_dabeille]

I have a new miniature cot - or a hammock if you prefer.  Yes, I know hammocks and cots are different.  But if I tell most people that I have a cot, they picture a little bed, the kind with legs, not a swinging hammock-like thing.  So I'll obstinately call it a hammock.

It was made for me by the talented elwenlj (who also makes curtains and bedding and other wonderful textile miniature things) in exchange for a set of ivory handled surgical instruments that I made for her.  The hammock is SO cute in person, and it swings so sweetly.  I really wish I could crawl into it and swing to sleep. 

All I've done to it is finish off the rope ends and add the rings for hanging, but I plan to dirty it up a bit too.

She made a mattress as well, very cunningly weighted with rice to make the whole thing hang nicely with a heavy feel - but unfortunately the ceiling of my little tiny roombox is so low that the hammock touches the floor when the mattress weighs it down.  And speaking of ceilings, I'm rather proud of mine because I added beams and things, plus cleverly disguised the electrical connections behind the beams.  I've finally been working on the electricity.  It's a bit tedious, since it's just logistical challenges instead of cute tiny fun pretty things, but the lights are going to look fabulous.  I have the handsomest hanging lamp for the great cabin!

And now, pictures of the hammock (and the traded surgical tools):

  

With the cunning weighted mattress (and pillow)


And without


Isn't it fine?


Tiny sleep cabin...


...with a beamy ceiling


I'll be certain to show many more pictures of all the ceilings with various beams and such as the project progresses, especially when I get lights installed.  There will also be mirrors and a book shelf and maybe some little cabinets stuffed into the cabin as well.

These are the ivory-handled surgical instruments I made for her.  She has a middle-earth house for Elrond, which includes a surgical/medicinal healing area (so much pleasanter and cleaner and more peaceful than Stephen's dirty old sickbay will be), and I expect Elrond's surgical instruments would have handles made from oliphaunt tusk (or at any rate, something elegant like ivory).  I have no idea if elves ever need trepanning, but every surgeon should have a trephine in his kit. 

linked at doll_houses and little_world .

Comments

[karenleigh.livejournal.com]

That is so great!

[grace-poppy.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I love it too!

[lilsayermonster.livejournal.com]

Wow! That hammock is amazing!

[grace-poppy.livejournal.com]

I know! I want to sleep in it!

[tealight-rookie.livejournal.com]

You're so talented - the both of you!

But damn it, I'm in the middle of the nightshift, with three hours to go until my sleep break, and I could just curl up in that hammock...

[grace-poppy.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Oh, it's even more tempting in person, to see it rocking back and forth so gently... I wish I were 5 inches tall so I could try it out.

[obeliamedusa.livejournal.com]

Ach, that cot/hammock looks fantastic. Isn't elwenlj amazing?

And the tools look great! Just the sort of surgical instruments you might expect Elrond to have. ;)

[grace-poppy.livejournal.com]

I hadn't even thought about Elrond doing surgery before, but I suppose elves do have their accidents too, plus orc encounters - plus the occasional hobbit who's been stabbed by a ringwraith. Best be prepared!

And yes, she is amazing. :D

[voontah.livejournal.com]

I'm really enjoying watching your progress on this project. Everything looks so wonderful!

[grace-poppy.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I'm enjoying it too. :D

[longlongwaytogo.livejournal.com]

Is it for adults or babies?
Either way it's awesome!

[grace-poppy.livejournal.com]

For adult sailors! I'm making a group of early 19th c. naval roomboxes. And the surgical items are definitely for adults. :D

[wee-mango.livejournal.com]

Aaaw how cute! <3

[grace-poppy.livejournal.com]

It really is!

[artyartie.livejournal.com]

Eeee! That looks so much like the hammock on the Victory, it's amazing!

[grace-poppy.livejournal.com]

I know, it does! Well actually I did give her a Victory hammock picture to work from, as well as ones from M&C! She did a lovely job!

[pint-of-boyd.livejournal.com]

Those are AMAZING!! How do you do that at such a small scale- with so much detail?!! I'd never have the patience.
Or eyesight.

[grace-poppy.livejournal.com]

I dunno! But thanks! It's just in my nature, I think! I've always adored tiny things and fiddly details!

[rosamundeb.livejournal.com]

You MADE those? How?!

The room is great, especially the neat floor.

[grace-poppy.livejournal.com]

The surgical tools? Well actually I should say I ADAPTED them from other metal tools, kitchen and carpentry tools. Just some nip-tuck and sanding, shaving and reshaping, cutting and painting. I don't actually have a metal foundry here in my house (though they do use molten lead at work... hmm! Nah, it's really blobby and messy. Though it would be awesome to make tiny molds for tiny metal tools...)

And elwenlj made the hammock. Out of... sewing. :D

[mthespinner.livejournal.com]

Oh wow! Both the hammock and the tools are made of awesome...totally wonderful.

How are you going to distress the hammock/cot?

[grace-poppy.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I'm not sure how I'll distress it yet. Probably just make it look a bit dirty and stained with very thin paint.

Your icon is cute. :D

[elwenlj.livejournal.com]

Oh, you've done wonders with the hammock. I was hoping you were better at knots than I was. You've finished the chords off beautifully . . .just like the picture you sent me of the ones on Victory. Can't wait to see it after you distressed it.

Sorry the mattress didn't work. But you may find another use for it. Try unpicking the end and filling it with cut raffia (to imitate straw). I've done that with tudor bed mattresses. Don't fall into the trap of over filling it, though. Or it will look too pouffy and you'll lose the scale feel.

And those toools are wonderful. I've ordered some metal trays to sit them on.

[grace-poppy.livejournal.com]

Well thank you! I didn't do knots, but I did a lot of wrapping and gluing. :D Knots are much too fiddly for me. There are limits to my fiddliness!

Oh, good idea about the raffia! I bet that works very well. Did you do a tudor house too?

So glad you like the tools!

[elizabathory.livejournal.com]

I've been waiting for a recent update of all things nautical-like... Can't wait to see it all put together... or not, as the case may be... :)

[grace-poppy.livejournal.com]

Well thanks for your interest! Lately it's all been in rather boring and unphotogenic stages, but it's coming together slowly but surely!

[drezdyndawll.livejournal.com]

Awwww...sooooo cute! :)

[grace-poppy.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[sharpiefan.livejournal.com]

You know the colour my LJ is? Well, that's the colour I went when I saw your lovely pictures.

I really love reading about your Naval roomboxes. Mini-Stephen and Mini-Jack are so lucky to have you making their cabins and things. :D

*hugs*

[grace-poppy.livejournal.com]

Aww, well thank you!

It took me a minute to figure out what you meant by the color. I thought I remembered correctly that it was green, but I was picturing a person turning red or pink with squeeful blushing, and didn't understand how green would figure into the picture.

[flowerkim.livejournal.com]

So awesome!!!! I am really loving watching you progress on this project. You asked me before about the metal embossing. I found some extra pieces in my craft room when I was cleaning the other night. If you want some pieces to play with email me your snail mail addy and I will send you some to play around with. :)
buddy3m@yahoo.com

[grace-poppy.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

And thanks for the offer for metal scraps! But actually, now I remember that I do have some metal pieces of my own that a friend gave me, and I just never got around to using them. So I'll just play with them, and I'll ask you for advice once I get going. What do you use to cut it? Special scissors?

[zed-pm.livejournal.com]

I love hammock, but the tools are so fascinating! How exciting. :D

[grace-poppy.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Yes, it is exciting!

[latin-cat.livejournal.com]

Oh, the hammock is lovely, and the little bone saws and stuff... I love miniatures so much. :) And it's wonderful to see how the boxes are coming along.

[grace-poppy.livejournal.com]

Thank you!