March 2025 - Your Dirty Secrets

Our challenge sample comes from Barbara Thornton-Hill who writes: 

Here is a 1:48 scale laundry room in a travel size Tide box.

From Barbara Thornton-Hill:

Laundry in an ALL box.

From Bev Fleming:

I just got this from Preble McDaniel and did some of it to submit, although class isn't until Aril 12. 

From Cindy Bottasso:

I enjoyed creating a mess in someone else’s house. Here’s a picture of the basement in my three-story house.
Oops, I think the stairs fell down…

From Tammy Braas-Hill:

 I love to collect vintage dollhouses. I’ve stared collecting a Swedish manufacturer called Lundby. 

In the 1940’s the Swedish company started producing dollhouses and miniature furniture for the mass market. 

My collection of miniatures and dolls are from the 1970’s with just a nod to mid century.

Now I’m waiting for the Lundby dollhouse to arrive in the mail.

From Donna Lee Lurker:

A club member gave us kits for this project for Christmas one year. It was so much fun to create! I see the floor needs a spot of glue. lol. I'll get right on that! Cat Wingler made the doll. This was the first doll I purchased from her. I love her dolls!

From Rita Ryan:

Doing a laundry room in a detergent bottle was on my 'must make' list for a long time, and I finally did it! My laundry room is 1:12 scale, and some of the items were purchased while others I made by hand. The toughest part was squaring up the walls, ceiling and floor so all the pieces could be placed properly. I'm thrilled with how it turned out! 

From Althea Baker:

"Dating at the Laundromat" 

Laundry sign says "Drop Your Pants Here".
Inspiration was this darling couple needing a warm place to completely get to know one another. Certain this relationship would last at least through the wash and dry cycles. 

This Laundry is half scale in an acrylic cube. 

From Beth Grabau:

3 sided NAME Day project

From Beth Grabau:

Scrubby Holder

From Melody Petlock:

I was trying to finish an early Victorian laundry scene but became overwhelmed, so this little fairy volunteered her scene hanging out her laundry, including all of the little wings, in her secret garden.

From Fern Rouleau:

Here is my laundry room in a laundry soap dispenser.

From Preble McDaniel:

Back in early 90’s I saw the ultra detergent come out. I waited until my brand had one and then I cut open the back. I knew I would be making a 1:12 scale laundry room inside.

I made most things used except the vacuum, iron, washtub, basket and the bottles.

My uncle saw it and wanted me to make one for him to give to his boss. He worked a factory that made a different brand.

I have been saving the scoops from the same ultra powder detergent I used for years. I have wanted to make a 1:48 scale scene in one and was always intimidated by the sizing of pieces. Using my scanner, Silhouette software and my new xtool laser, I finally did it. With exception to the 3d printed items, I made nearly everything using my laser.

From Jean Smith (Rusty):

The mangle in the laundry area of the !:48 scale bunny house was based on a kit from Petite Properties with additions. The enamelled bowl beside it is a pill blister with detail from Sharpies. More modern is the 1:24 scale "House of Cards" built and furnished almost exclusively from matt board; offcuts purchased from a picture framer's.

From Debbie Colombo:

Laundry Line

From Dori Allard:

Attached is a picture of my laundry room.

I have been collecting items for several years and finally put it all together. It's 12th scale and I put it in a wine box!

From Debbie Albert:

I bought this years ago. It’s quarter scale. It was fun to make and I added some extras.

From Elizabeth Lubera:

My challenge submission is one small corner of a larger project called “Veggie Ville,” created as part of a Pam Junk class held during the NAME convention in Alexandria, VA in 1996.    “Veggie Ville” is a ¼ scale vegetable village, comprising cabbage, onion, romaine lettuce and carrot “houses,” complete with furnishings and interior décor made from Pam Junk kits. 
My larger view gives a peek into the fully-furnished cabbage house and the onion kitchen (can you see the mini stove?) and an overview of the village, which also includes vegetable plantings, a village store, and even a flower pot turned upside-down (with windows) to create a vegetable “doll house”! 
My detail photo shows a corner of “Veggie Ville,” shaded by two towering daisies. There we see a clothes line including a quilt on the line, some veggie-style “laundry”, recently dug-up carrots washed and hung out to dry.   You can see the cleaned and dried carrots in a basket, ready to sell at the store.                                             
There is also a tea party going on, with a table and tea cart. There I added my own touches, including (on the tea cart) a lettuce leaf-style cream and sugar bowl and (on the table) a lettuce leaf-style tea pot with two tea cups and a dish with cake slice), all made by an artisan specializing in miniatures. 

From Carol Silberman:

Quarter scale laundry room in a laundry soap scoop.

From Liz Maglievaz:

My Chinese laundry built from photo of an actual laundry in a western town during the age of cowboys and railroad expansion.

From Linda Patterson:

I worked for a company that operated coin-operated laundry machines in apartment buildings, nursing homes, laundromats, etc.

For our office, I decorated a snowing Christmas tree with laundry items used in the business.

Ornaments included: tokens; picture from company advertising; washers with clothes; money bag full of quarters;

Dryers full of clothes; Christmas bulbs full of snow, laundry soap, and basket of clothes; boxes of fabric softener and laundry soap.

From Ann Silverman:

Here is my laundry project. It's several years old, but it has been in my laundry room ever since I made it.

From Marilyn Ferkinhoff:

I went to a Fun Day in Massachusetts a few years ago. The project was a She Shed. I made mine a laundry room because I had this washer and dryer that I wanted to use in something. 

From Alex Sharif:

Here are some pictures of “Granny’s Back Porch Laundry Room” for the March 2025 Challenge, Your Dirty Secrets.
It is 1” scale. Screened in porch, laundry room, landscaped backyard with clothes line!

From Sam Murray:

Quarter inch scale laundry day scene in a tide box. Created around 1995. Notice that the clothes line has snapped and the clothes have fallen into the mud.

From Tammy Witthaus:

This is my laundry room in my quarter scale Debbie Young Chicago Bungalow.

From Vicki Scidmore:

Ol’ Jed does his washin’ up over by the outhouse every month whether it’s needed or not. Just watch out for the rattlesnake on the roof!

From Martha Bates:

I made this 1:24 scale laundry room in an 8-inch tall wood iron purchased from the craft store. When the lid flips up to close the iron, it displays the iron handle and the clothes on the line decor I added.
 
Hope you can turn the pictures to show it as it is hung on the wall. 

From Stephanie Cooley:

Here is my mini laundry in a bottle - ALL to get the laundry done. The little kitty in the basket is enjoying the warm towels just out of the dryer. Another load waits to be folded.

From Carol Shea:

This was a class taken from Kate Hubran. It's one of the first I had ever done in quarter scale. This container is one used in public laundries. 

From Julie Stuckmeyer:

This was the first "It's an Open Book" from Robin Betterley's Miniatures entitled "Mama Ladybug's Laundry Day". It is still my favorite ... although I've done three more. I just love the baby ladybugs!

From Diane Fisher:

Laundry in a Tide Box

From Laurie Sisson:

Quarter inch scale framed.