MakingABookshop

I’m making a miniature version of Aziraphale’s book shop

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Just found your blog, and I'm having to resist the temptation to just spam reblog every post! I've away loved dollhouses and minatures, but crossed with Good Omens, it's like a direct shot of dopamine and serotonin.

Maybe I'll take inspiration and try a few wee projects myself, if I can stop vibrating with happiness over the sheer cuteness of it all!

I’m so glad you enjoyed it. It’s the perfect combination for me. I can’t write or draw but I wanted to make something with all the love I felt, and this felt right. Please show me if you do try a project. I’d love to see!

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Closer shots from left to right

Naturally I’ve decided to start the South Downs cottage next.

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I finished my miniature bookshop and installed it in my bookshelf. Three years of GO love. ❤️

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So this is the shelf I put over Aziraphale’s desk. It has his most prized trinkets.

The pear is for my favorite 5+1 fic ever “This Strange Sweetness” by KannaOphelia (T).

The oyster shell is, of course, for oysters at Petronius’ and the amazing Devil’s Backbone AMV by MultiE and the heart-rending fic inspired by it - “And the World is the Mollusc of your Choice” by KannaOphelia (T).

And last but not least is the tiny reading angel statuette (yes, I found a miniature sculpture of an ANGEL READING), for “Taught to Hope” by forthegreatergood (G).

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So I got this pretty pillow at a dollhouse show, and I think it’s very 1920s/art deco in style. I may be wrong about that, but I think it looks pretty good on Aziraphale’s chair, and I couldn’t not have something in honor of my favorite multi chapter GO fic of all time “There Will Come A Day” (E) by KannaOphelia.

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Found a tiny postcard, and it reminded me of the Titanic, so I put it on Aziraphale’s desk in honor of To The Stars (E) by StarRose, a really beautiful GO Titanic AU fic. Unlike nearly everyone else in the world, I haven’t actually seen the Titanic movie and I don’t want to because it could not possibly be as good as this lovely fic.

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I made Crowley’s walking stick from the St. James Park scene. And when I say made, I mean I spent a lot of time and effort trying to sculpt it out of Fimo, but that is not a skill I have. I ended up buying a set of earrings on Etsy and using one of them to make the walking stick. Special thanks goes to MichelleLeeStudioGB on Etsy who made the incredible earring I used.

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So, on a not exactly related note, I gave the dollhouse my dad and I made when I was a kid to a coworker 15-20 years ago. Turns out she gave it to another coworker when her kids outgrew it, and I ran into her the other day. Her 6 year old is still playing with it and she sent me pictures!

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Growing up is actually all about realizing people don’t inherently dislike you and it’s a bit odd to assume they do

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This

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fucking SLAY

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This is the bouquet I made for “Flowers for Anthony” at the start of Pray for Us, Icarus (G/T) by Atalan, a truly lovely story.

It has daisies for loyalty and faithful love, allium for patience, and pink carnations for “I’ll never forget you.” I couldn’t find/make all the flowers mentioned in the story, so I added campanula for attraction and maturity and poppies for loss and death. I also added the blue cornflowers which stay fresh if your love is returned but otherwise fade quickly.

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I made Aziraphale’s ridiculously tiny glasses out of a piece of wire.

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I added Nanny Ashtoreth’s umbrella to my growing collection.

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The ruby necklace from Time Flies (When You’re Having Fun) (E) by mussim, really just a perfect time loop fic. The necklace will live in the desk drawer in hiding, but I’ll know it’s there.

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A gramophone, of course. It’s not for bebop. In honor of the most lovely AU - On Espionage and Prophecy (or how to accidentally, but wholly, fall in love with a Soho bookseller) (E) by RockSaltAndRoll

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I made a box of old maps because it seemed like the right sort of thing for the bookshop and in honor of Planning Permission (M) by blythely and circetigana, one of the loveliest through time fics out there.

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I made the angel wing mug!

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So I made this little bit of Greco Roman pottery (not an archaeologist or art major - it’s from somewhere near that era) for my little bookshop.

In honor of “Let Sleeping Demons Lie” (E) by chamyl and entanglednow

And “When in Rome” (M) by reserve