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11.7.10

Toast anyone?..............

Levi needed a toaster so we made one.  School holidays are a specially busy miniature time round here!

Monkey see, monkey do, is me.  No imagination, but if I can touch it I can try making it.  I measured our RL toaster and we went from there.



Here is what you need.  Good old tongue depressors and coffee stirrers!  And a toaster to copy of course.



The upper part of the toaster with the slots was made as the three pieces shown bottom right, then all glued together.  Two tongue depressors glued together to get the thickness, split a coffee stirrer down the length to make the slot ends. Sand to shape.



The electric cord is made from thread with black card folded over and glued in position.  The wall plug was punched circles and the cord sandwiched between.  Tacky wax will hold it in position to make it look like it is plugged in.



Paint the upper and lower sections in your choice of colour and let dry.  Levi wanted Brushed Stainless Steel for his, mine is a retro/shabby green.  Glue top and bottom together and then add a timing knob made of a short length of toothpick.  Finally add the handle for lowering the toast.  We used black card again with a short piece of wire pushed into a drilled hole in the body of the toaster.


Addendum:- Second toaster makes its debut.


                     

34 comments:

  1. Great idea! Love the toaster. So does Tessie. Now she wants one!

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  2. WOW!!! That is amazing Susan and Levi. I am soo impressed with your toaster. I wouldn't have known where to start.

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  3. Tak for opskriften til en toaster. Hvor er den bare flot! Så realistisk med ledning og en rigtig bund. Det glæder jeg mig til at lave!
    Knus Eva

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  4. It's fabulous! And I'm so lazy that I bought my toaster, never even occured to do one myself, too much little details to do :D

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  5. thank you for the tutorial, it's a really cute toaster! :D

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  6. That looks fantastic! It looks just like the real thing. Good job!

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  7. Un magnifico tutorial, con excelentes resultados.
    Te ha quedado simplemente genial!!!
    besitos ascension

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  8. Holy smokes! This is awesome! I've never found a mini toaster I liked but never thought of making one. Excellent work!

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  9. Wow Susan!! I'm so impressed with your toaster! It looks so real, I can't believe you made that from tongue depressors and coffee stirrers.
    Awesome job! Thanks for sharing how you did it, but I still know my attempt would never look as good as yours (probably mine wouldn't even look like a toaster, lol).

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  10. Wow, your toaster is fabulous and thank you so much for showing how you did it, very ingenious! I love looking at the real thing for inspiration too. Jean♥

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  11. A very clever monkey! Thanks for the tips :)

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  12. Wonderful toaster Susan!!!

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  13. Well done, must get some of those tongue depressors they are so versatile in mini-making!

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  14. Nice idea!!
    Could also be done with ice cream sticks...
    look here:
    http://maminiatures.blogspot.com

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  15. Great work, is fantastic, thank you for sharing us! greetings

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  16. Thankyou all for having a look at our toaster! I can never quite believe it when people leave comments - they make me smile :)

    Oh no Casey! I can't imagine what colour Tessie will want her toaster......with spots perhaps?

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  17. I forgot to mention my green toaster has made an appearance at the end of the original post!

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  18. so realist thanks for shring this with tut really great toaster!!

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  19. wow! Fabulous Susan! I love the green toaster- but Levi's is pretty modern and cool too!

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  20. Yours is really retro and cool!!

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  21. There is a really nice modern toaster at
    http://bostonminiatures.com/toaster.html

    The price was a bit steep for me when I wanted two, besides, I still would have had to paint my one!

    Inventing our own was a fun way to spend time with a grandchild and he has learned about budgeting, he can spend his hard earned pocket money on something that we can't make, like glass or china.

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  22. Susan, Is a real one!!! You have made it so perfect!!! Love both!!
    My congratulations,
    Hugs,
    Meli

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  23. They is so cute!!! and so clever. :) Our real life toaster sent some sparks at us a couple of nights ago and has refused to work since. I don't suppose you can make a working model, in vintage colours... :D

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  24. Thank you for so much good idea .

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  25. That Boston Minis toaster is nice, but what I love is that yours looks every bit as realistic and you made it yourself! No contest...you win! :D

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  26. My friend and I made a toaster see my blog for a pictures. It was fun.
    Thanks for sharing this with us!

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  27. Hi Chris, glad you could use the tutorial. I'd love to see your toaster but your blog isn,t showing on your profile so people can't clicck on your name and go to see your blog. Your profile is also set to private so it appears you don't have a blog. If you ccchange these settings you will have a lot more visitors!!

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  28. Don't know how I missed this post?!
    Love your little toaster! It is much nicer than any I've seen!
    Thanks so much for sharing how to make one. :D I'm going to try it!
    Hugs,
    Kathi

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  29. Hallo Susan !
    Vielen Dank für die fantastischen Anleitungen. Das ist so lehrreich. Danke fürs zeigen.
    Liebe Grüße
    Skiddi

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  30. You are very welcome Skiddi, I'm glad you liked the toaster tutorial!

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  31. I just found your blog - you have some great stuff on here.

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  32. Hi Troy, glad you like my small productions! Hope you find some of them useful :)

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  33. Can you show a few more pictures you went from boards to it being down with pieces all around it . I can pick up things usually but on this one I need a few more steps. You did a great job on yours . 😊

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