What fun miniature focused art and quotes can I put in a dollhouse?

August 20, 2023 1:38 PM

I'm looking for fun art ideas, proverbs, or quotes focused on miniatures.

I'm building and decorating an Ikea flisat dollhouse for my kid. I've got furniture, measured and cut cardstock for wallpaper, etc. and I'm thinking about what else art or saying-wise I can put on the wall that can sort of wink at the fact that the house is a miniature.

So far all I have as an idea is the Sherlock Holmes quote "To a great mind, nothing is little." and the possibility of doing like a vintage style portrait of a mouse family or something.

I'm open to any fun proverbs or sayings related to tiny-ness or home as well as any art or decor that gives a nod to the miniature size of the house.

posted by donut_princess to Sports, Hobbies, & Recreation (11 answers total)

Best answer: A tiny copy of a Flisat dollhouse, decorated with images of the big dollhouse, one of the images showing the tiny dollhouse (so it looks like an endless series, one inside another).
posted by pipeski at 1:46 PM on August 20, 2023 [1 favorite]

Best answer: From a Midsummer Night’s Dream: Though she be but little she is fierce.
posted by FencingGal at 2:08 PM on August 20, 2023 [6 favorites]

I like this:

"The little things? The little moments? They aren't little." - Jon Kabat-Zinn
posted by kathrynm at 2:23 PM on August 20, 2023 [1 favorite]

To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour
--Wm. Blake, Auguries of Innocence

Also: matryoshka dolls
posted by miles per flower at 2:26 PM on August 20, 2023 [2 favorites]

“Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.”
posted by skwm at 2:37 PM on August 20, 2023

Best answer: "What is this, a center for ants?"
– Derek Zoolander
posted by Kabanos at 6:21 PM on August 20, 2023 [1 favorite]

If you want a little humor: "A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man."
posted by praemunire at 7:10 PM on August 20, 2023

More seriously, "I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself the king of infinite space..."
posted by praemunire at 7:11 PM on August 20, 2023

Best answer: For art, maybe some images from Tatsuya Tanaka's miniature calendar.
posted by the primroses were over at 9:20 PM on August 20, 2023

Phenominal Cosmic Power, Ity Bity Living Space
posted by Mitheral at 9:41 PM on August 20, 2023

Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em,
And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum.

— Augustus de Morgan, Siphonaptera.
posted by misteraitch at 2:38 AM on August 21, 2023 [1 favorite]