Hello crafty friends!

I am brimming with excitement and inspiration after attending/exhibiting at the Maker Faire and Bazaar Bizarre recently.  The Maker Faire is a place where science and art collide creating an amazing festival of interesting ideas and otherworldly contraptions.  Or as my friend pointed out “It’s like Burning Man without the sandstorms and  naked people.”

This blog post is not about the Maker Faire per se, but I will say that the gift that Maker Faire gave me was that I left there feeling the desire to do more, to think bigger.

Sometimes thinking bigger can mean making smaller.  So I wanted to share a few amazingly tiny or rather, seemingly tiny things.

Above are oil paintings by Amy Bennett.  I love the fact that Amy’s paintings look almost like miniature dioramas.

(via Booooooom)

Michael Samuels is a UK artist who made a series of mixed media miniature sculptures on resin seascapes.

If you are at all like me and have a desire to see absolutely everything in miniature then check out these tilt-shift videos.

(thanks to my brother for the link)