tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57310204144583326772024-03-05T17:04:07.061+02:00Mini treasuresMini treasures wiki is connecting miniature makers and collectors world-wide. This blogs shares the news from the wiki.Johanna Janhonenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15609482325680853808noreply@blogger.comBlogger203125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5731020414458332677.post-40321354077856263712020-03-28T16:59:00.001+02:002020-03-28T17:00:50.614+02:00Whine and CheeseThe bottles were 3D printed at our library, and the labels sized to fit.<br />
Swiss cheese from Brigitte McCarty’s YouTube video.<br />
Grapes are mustard seeds.<br />
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<br />Linda McDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08159163207404275150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5731020414458332677.post-8911610885333833622018-11-26T22:51:00.000+02:002018-11-26T22:51:00.236+02:00Christmas Tree Trims and Garlands<div id="yui_3_13_0_rc_1_1_1382745542506_14378" style="float: left; margin-bottom: 40px;">
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NOTE: I shared this idea several years ago on one of my
groups and apologize if you've read this T2T already, but with Christmas
coming up it may be helpful to some.<br />
Here are three easy steps to make teensy silver tree garlands and curly-cue icicles:<br />
1) Find a guitar player who uses metal wound strings on the 3 or 4 lower
strings and ask him/her to save the old strings the next time the
strings are changed. (Classical guitars strings are the best source
because they are real silver wound over a fibre core, but any metal
wound acoustic guitar strings will do the job. I haven't tried using
violin strings, but the G and D strings should work as they are close in
diameter to the higher guitar strings.)<br />
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2) Cut one end of the string off at the point where the string
straightens out, find the end of the metal strip and gently pull it to
unwind the metal from the core. Hold the core end in the other hand and
go slowly so you don't stretch the 'spring&# 39; out of shape.<br />
3) For icicles, cut the spring into 1/3 to 1/2 inch lengths stretching
the springs if needed to open them up a bit. Attach a loop of sewing
thread to one end with CA glue. For garlands, slightly stretch a long
piece until it looks good to you and wrap it around the tree, outdoor
pillars or railings, a mailbox or whatever you fancy. <br />
BTW, you can also use the metal strips in jewellery both RL size and mini, and it can be soldered. <br />
Chris in Canada<br />
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Linda McDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08159163207404275150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5731020414458332677.post-17301865379052592862013-12-01T17:09:00.001+02:002013-12-02T08:47:37.152+02:00Mini treasures 5th advent calendar opened today<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/36581242@N06/8291556056/" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Flopsy, Mopsy, Cotton-tail and Peter and the Fir Tree 1/2 by redrickshaw, on Flickr"><img alt="Flopsy, Mopsy, Cotton-tail and Peter and the Fir Tree 1/2" height="500" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8216/8291556056_1c0c385ecc.jpg" width="361" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A christmas tree by Redrickshaw</td></tr>
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We opened <a href="http://minitreasures.pbworks.com/w/page/62245469/advent_calendar_2013" target="_blank">our 5th advent calendar </a>on Mini treasures wiki today.<br />
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The new thing is that we are encouraging people to contribute during the calendar, e.g. today we are asking people if they have mini villages as Christmas decoration in their home.<br />
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<a href="http://minitreasures.pbworks.com/w/page/62245469/advent_calendar_2013" target="_blank">Come and see it now! :)</a><br />
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<br />Johanna Janhonenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15609482325680853808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5731020414458332677.post-69178249444914400512013-11-16T09:50:00.000+02:002013-11-16T09:50:10.853+02:00How to fill our advent calendar pages<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/28426365@N06/10859228633/" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="Christmasbed1 by debbiebooth, on Flickr"><img alt="Christmasbed1" height="239" src="http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2844/10859228633_b68efde60d_m.jpg" width="240" /></a><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">I have been busy with my several projects and have not been hanging around on Mini </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">treasures wiki for awhile. Now I saw that only 8 calendar pages have been reserved so </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">far. Haven´t you got any Christmas projects to share with us? <b>If you don't I do :).</b></span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">Just a warning: in the end of this month I am going to reserve all the remaining pages and fill </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">them with stuff I find, e.g. from our Flickr pool or some nice YouTube videos about (e.g.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">about <a href="http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=miniature+christmas+village&sm=3" target="_blank">miniature villages</a></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">) </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">and so on. So think creatively: you can use also stuff created by other people. Do you have a favorite miniaturist </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">artisan you would like to interview or whose minis you would like to showcase </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">for us? Or maybe you have a favorite Christmas poem (or story) you could write and use other people's mini pictures in it?</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;">So if you now got a new idea, <a href="http://minitreasures.pbworks.com/w/page/62245469/advent_calendar_2013" target="_blank">go and reserve your page</a> before I take them all ;).</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px;" />Johanna Janhonenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15609482325680853808noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5731020414458332677.post-40036861694425719372013-10-01T11:59:00.000+03:002013-10-01T11:59:04.823+03:00Time to reserve your page on our advent calendar<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />We are starting to reserve the pages of our traditional <a href="http://minitreasures.pbworks.com/w/page/62245469/advent_calendar_2013" target="_blank">advent calendar.</a> </div>
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It is a fun way to promote your miniature projects - for free.</div>
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Last year some of the people also organized a lottery. One of the people who had left a comment on their page won the mini on that page. Hopefully this tradition continues this year too :). </div>
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If you need help with reserving, we have <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/minitreasures" target="_blank">a Yahoo group for giving support</a> to each others.</div>
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<li><span style="font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 16.99652862548828px;">press edit</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 16.99652862548828px;">write your name on that page</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 16.99652862548828px;">wait until Linda or I hide the page from others (change the security of the page)</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 16.99652862548828px;">wait that Linda or I open the page for others again just before your own date</span></li>
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Johanna Janhonenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15609482325680853808noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5731020414458332677.post-82190351531424099262013-05-31T11:48:00.000+03:002013-05-31T11:48:10.193+03:00What are the most popular topics on miniature projects currentlyI just learnt about List.ly and wanted to try it out. And you can be my test bunnies. :) I want to use it to learn about what kind of mini projects you are currently working at. I added 10 proposals but hope you continue to add topics. For me, a kitchen is not a topic as there are kitchens in almost every dollhouse but a restaurant would be a topic. Hope you get the idea. :)<br />
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<br />Johanna Janhonenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15609482325680853808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5731020414458332677.post-1516355729241140592013-05-03T11:11:00.000+03:002013-05-03T11:11:05.177+03:00The MTW Awards are here again<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I just finalized our list of 25 biggest traffic bringers to Mini treasures wiki. In the beginning of MTW most of the traffic came through miniature blogs, sites and forums but now the situation has changed. People have bookmarked our site and most people visit it via Google and other search engines. So now I needed to go back to 255 biggest traffic bringers to get this list. The links on this lists are mainly blogs or website hosted by either private people or companies. They are sites where I can leave comments telling them about the prize they have gotten. I also found some inactive blogs and secret blogs which were left out from this list as I could not reach their owner.<br />
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I want now to thank these wonderful sites for the promotion efforts you have done for Mini treasures during the last year. Keep on the good work :).<br />
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I added all these award winners on <a href="http://pinterest.com/jjanhone/mtw-awards-2013-and-2012/" target="_blank">our Pinterest board dedicated to MTW Awards</a>. They are all nice sites worth of your browsing too :).<br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Segoe UI, Lucida Grande, Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 19px;">If you want to be included on this list next year, start promoting our wiki now. Add<a href="http://minitreasures.pbworks.com/w/page/20982036/wiki_buttons" target="_blank"> a wiki button</a> on your site and tell your blog's readers about our wiki and what it means to you. :) The winners are found also on <a href="http://minitreasures.pbworks.com/w/page/65137952/mtw_four_years" target="_blank">our 4th birthday page</a>.</span></span></div>
Johanna Janhonenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15609482325680853808noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5731020414458332677.post-64689145997033383822013-04-30T11:14:00.001+03:002013-04-30T11:41:43.879+03:00Winners of our birthday contest<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Hi there<br />
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We have had a very nice <a href="http://minitreasures.pbworks.com/w/page/65137952/mtw_four_years" target="_blank">birthday party on our site </a>:). And we got quite many participants on our big contest where we had 9 (NINE!) the cutest mini prizes.<br />
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I just did the lottery and here are the winners.<br />
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Saara Vallineva, Hegemony77, gingeranna, Pat Wareing, Linda McD, Micaela Lehtonen, Danielle LeBrun, A.Dourou and Wendy Riggins.<br />
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Congrats to you all and check our site to see what did you win :). I would love to see the photo of your prize when you get it, so please leave a comment below.<br />
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The people who have donated our prizes have now been contacted. I gave them the winners email address (the one they use for logging to our wiki) so they can ask for a snail mail address and be enable to send them to right destination.<br />
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Thank you for all the nice people who took part in our contest this time. :)Johanna Janhonenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15609482325680853808noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5731020414458332677.post-47518593245365665142013-04-10T20:21:00.001+03:002013-04-11T08:04:33.977+03:00Welcome to our 4th birthday party!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoYihEDebQ0I9wCAzF2llY26oi0nibaZQOYOOy03tN01B-ZaYYEmbgOMkHlCE8d_6g9BFG407JpL_kr_NsMwqYL949ba7qkPSsGQK5kVINCsMUhZ7QHcu1my_saG7CjHk_WxGXZnsYx0g/s1600/mtw_heart_mtw4y_240.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoYihEDebQ0I9wCAzF2llY26oi0nibaZQOYOOy03tN01B-ZaYYEmbgOMkHlCE8d_6g9BFG407JpL_kr_NsMwqYL949ba7qkPSsGQK5kVINCsMUhZ7QHcu1my_saG7CjHk_WxGXZnsYx0g/s320/mtw_heart_mtw4y_240.jpg" /></a> Mini treasures wiki will be 4 years on Sunday 14th April 2013. We are celebrating the occasion with several ways:<br />
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<li>we are show-casing <a href="http://www.flickr.com//search/groups/show/?q=cake&m=pool&s=rec&w=1132569%40N22" target="_blank">the cakes from our Flickr group</a></li>
<li>we have a special <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/643169015700577/" target="_blank">Facebook event </a></li>
<li>we will be tweeting about our birthday using <a href="https://twitter.com/search/realtime?q=%23mtw4y&src=hash" target="_blank">#mtw4y</a></li>
<li>we are giving away the MTW Awards for 25 sites bringing us most traffic</li>
<li>there are give-away (feel free to donate too by this Sunday, e.g. by leaving a comment on this blog post)</li>
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Come and join <a href="http://minitreasures.pbworks.com/w/page/65137952/mtw_four_years" target="_blank">our party</a> (the main page for the event is of course in the wiki itself) and do not forget to spread the word about it :). Make us a birthday card or leave your kind words in the comment section of this blog. </div>
Johanna Janhonenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15609482325680853808noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5731020414458332677.post-19985221841442740032013-03-27T11:35:00.001+02:002013-03-27T11:35:48.808+02:00Our 4th birthday is coming soon with a contest<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_0nl2YC1EG4/T5WD_aqgo3I/AAAAAAAACtM/XlfH-yOIYdE/s1600/mtwaward2012.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_0nl2YC1EG4/T5WD_aqgo3I/AAAAAAAACtM/XlfH-yOIYdE/s320/mtwaward2012.jpg" /></a>On 14th April Mini treasures wiki will be 4 years old. We have a habit of celebrating that by thanking the miniature bloggers who brought us most traffic.<br />
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<a href="http://pinterest.com/jjanhone/mtw-award-2012/" target="_blank">See the 25 bloggers or site owners who got the MTW Award last year</a> and think if you could join them by spreading the word about Mini treasures wiki in your blog or site. :)<br />
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But before our birthday have a happy mini <a href="http://minitreasures.pbworks.com/easter" target="_blank">Easter</a>!Johanna Janhonenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15609482325680853808noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5731020414458332677.post-34400595016729748902013-03-13T09:21:00.000+02:002013-03-13T09:21:03.298+02:00Mini treasures wiki's year 2012<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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I told you earlier that I have been busy. I still am. <b>But next week I am going to start a new course targeted for community managers</b>. And as Mini treasures is my biggest community I am going to do some stuff for us during the course - two tasks at the same time :). On the first time we are introducing ourselves and our communities and for that I updated the presentation I have been doing earlier showing the highlights of last year from the social media point of view.<br />
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When I started the Mini treasures wiki in 2009 I used A LOT of my time for building the site and starting the social media channels for it. It acted as my portfolio then showing what I can do. It still does that but now I have also other communities and my own business to take care of.<br />
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But looking at the figures shows me that the site can survive <b>and grow </b>even if I am not spending that much time on improving it. We have Linda and and we have plenty of fans and users who like us, thank you :).<br />
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Flickr used to be my main arena where I did the community management stuff for Mini treasures as the pictures are critical for miniature hobby but last year I got hooked up with Pinterest and used more time for that. I still believe in the possibilities Pinterest can offer for us but every now and then I try to find time to spend in Flickr too.<br />
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Now look at what we accomplished last year and have fun with us this year too. Any help with Mini treasures world is appreciated as always. :)<br />
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Johanna Janhonenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15609482325680853808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5731020414458332677.post-44665660334830772112013-02-04T17:50:00.001+02:002013-02-04T17:50:44.849+02:00Why I have been away from you...<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/goddessofchocolate/5366969633/" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="Tiny Valentines Day cards by goddess of chocolate, on Flickr"><img alt="Tiny Valentines Day cards" height="189" src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5130/5366969633_aecdfc96af_m.jpg" width="240" /></a> You might have noticed that I have not been with you for a long time but now I am back. What was I doing then?<br />
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First I was planning my research exchange time and then doing it: me and my family spent 6 weeks in <a href="http://pinterest.com/jjanhone/ich-liebe-graz/" target="_blank">Graz, Austria</a> to study social media in automotive industry. Boy was it interesting! It is always to work in foreign country and learn about new cultures. The visit was in November-December so me, an old Christmas fan, was been spoiled by different goodies Graz has to offer, e.g. Christmas fairs. :) Loved it! During the Christmas time I was promoting <a href="http://minitreasures.pbworks.com/w/page/59610355/advent_calendar_2012" target="_blank">our advent calendar</a> but the main work was done by Linda, thank heavens we have her onboard!<br />
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After we came back to Finland we had of course plenty to do, e.g. meeting the family we had not met during Christmas. But I was busy with other things too.<br />
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Before I started Mini treasures wiki I had another wiki, Nukkekotiwiki, a wiki about dollhouses in Finnish. After all the time I spend with you the first wiki was lacking my attention so last year I decided to give some love for it too. My idea was to host a contest: the cutest dollhouse blog in Finnish. First I planned to run it after the summer but something happened: a major Finnish blog service called Vuodatus crashed. And it deleted the photos of its users from several years! Many dollhouse bloggers were using Vuodatus so to give them more time to recover I postponed the contest till the end of the year. The deadline for voting was 15th January and since then I have been telling the results day by day. The top ten bloggers are found <a href="http://pinterest.com/jjanhone/suomen-ihanimmat-nukkekotiblogit/" target="_blank">on a Pinterest board</a>.<br />
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But this is still not all! I am not only the community manager of Mini treasures and Nukkekotiwiki but I run other communities as well. Being a community manager is one of my passions - I want to learn how to do it well and how to get the most out of you. This is the reason I brought <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_Manager_Appreciation_Day" target="_blank">Community Manager Appreciation Day</a> to Finland last year. Last year we were about 15 persons in that event but this year we were 150! And I was still one of the main organizers of the event. So you can guess I was busy with that event, I was thinking that it was almost like my wedding (we had the same amount of visitors back in 2000): I had been inviting a big group of people to celebrate a day (party) with me and to hear the speaches we had chosen for them. I WAS nervous but luckily everything went quite well.<br />
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So now my life is back to so called "normal mode". Of course I still have a business to run and a family to mother but nothing so special so should be able to spend some weekly hours with you from now on. :) I just wanted you to know why I stayed away from you for such a long time - hope you understand now better.<br />
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Mini treasures is not part of my business (yet) but just a hobby. I got the bill from the Pbworks again, 499$ a year. An expensive hobby I have, don't I? If I want to make my living out of Mini treasures we would need to get 100 times as much as visitors than we currently (14 000 montly visitors) have or to get our visitors to buy 100 times more from Amazon using our affiliate links (e.g. <a href="http://astore.amazon.com/minitreasuwik-20" target="_blank">Mini treasures store</a>). The combination would be easiest to achieve: 10 times more visitors and 10 times more Amazon shopping. So the next time you are thinking to buy something from Amazon, use one of our links. Consider also if you can promote MTW to your mini friends - it will encourage me to pay the Pbworks bill again next year.<br />
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Till later friends, I have been missing you!Johanna Janhonenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15609482325680853808noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5731020414458332677.post-36073087319010788192013-01-12T21:34:00.002+02:002013-01-12T21:34:50.018+02:00MT wiki Prizes on their way!Well, it is the New Year and time to reveal the prize winners in the Minitreasures Advent calendar<br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">Christmas Gold Glitter Table Centrepiece</span></b><br />
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Carolyn Brown from Canada is sending Leny Frings from the Netherlands this Christmas
centrepiece with lycopodium and faux greens, gold glittered branches
and gold glass beads. Green and gold cloissonne beads hold white
candles. Accented with silk burgundy bows.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Tea Light Pram</span></b></span><br />
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Anne Dourou from Greece is sending Lisa Topping one of these lovely prams.<br />
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Gloria Wright from Canada selected Eileen Morgan from Nanaimo,BC, Jaz Ash from Australia and Joyce
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<span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffd3; color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lots of Christmas printies.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffd3; color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Miniature
nativity figures. Could be used on your own tree - but might make a
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<span style="font-size: large;">Thank you all for participating and sharing the fun!</span>Linda McDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08159163207404275150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5731020414458332677.post-20858189517028148912012-11-01T20:36:00.001+02:002012-11-01T20:41:19.272+02:00Mini treasures on Facebook<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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If you like <a href="https://www.facebook.com/minitreasures" target="_blank">Mini treasures on Facebook</a> you might have noticed that most of the updates from Mini treasures are not shown to you at all. This is because Facebook has changed its Edge Rank algorithm to get more money from the Page owners who need pay for the updates to get them shown to more people.<br />
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On average an update is shown to only 7 % of you.<br />
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The result for seeing more updates from pages you actually LIKE is to start using interest lists. I created <a href="https://www.facebook.com/lists/10151173331626859" target="_blank">a list for Mini treasures updates</a>, feel free to subscribe it or create a list of your own with all of your mini related pages on it :).<br />
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The place where you create the <b>Interest list</b> is in the beginning of the page next to Like:<br />
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<span id="goog_2057832428">We also have <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/minitreasures/" target="_blank">a group in Facebook,</a> you are welcome to join it too. :)</span>Johanna Janhonenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15609482325680853808noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5731020414458332677.post-43513796597562135772012-10-20T10:12:00.001+03:002012-10-20T10:12:22.041+03:00Removed members from wiki - sorry folks!<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/66884092@N00/5712198447/" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" title="Dollhouse Miniature Flowers - Purple Hyacinth in 1/12 Scale by Pei Li's Miniatures, on Flickr"><img alt="Dollhouse Miniature Flowers - Purple Hyacinth in 1/12 Scale" height="185" src="http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2416/5712198447_53226c8e6e_m.jpg" width="240" /></a>Yesterday Linda got an idea: she wanted to clean our wiki members a bit and checked the ones who had not been logged in for three years. Then she removed almost 70 members. <b>When I found this out I was really really upset. </b>Pbworks is not showing the correct information always and there were valuable members (and my friends) removed who had been editing the wiki during these years. Even if the people are not logged in for our service they might visit our site regularly (you can read without logging in) and follow the wiki updates from their own emails.<br />
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So far our policy has been that only the spammers (you now them, they are marketing rented cars and diets and so on, kitchenware for our 1:1 homes not for our mini projects) have been blocked away. We do not have any activity rules for our members and we will not make them now. <b>We wont start kicking away miniaturists, only spammers!</b><br />
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So what I just did? Invited the removed members back to our wiki. I also invited them to our new Yahoo group which has recently started to help our users with the wiki problems as well as giving us feedback and new ideas about how to improve our services. The rest of you are also <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/minitreasures" target="_blank">welcome to join our group</a>! <br />
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I now Linda meant only good with her cleaning and she is sorry too about what happened. <b>Peace & harmony folks, we do want to keep you in our wiki!</b>Johanna Janhonenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15609482325680853808noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5731020414458332677.post-44474907855303970822012-10-07T09:57:00.002+03:002012-10-07T10:00:13.743+03:00Adding photos to Mini treasures wiki with help of PinterestI created also another how-to-instructions: embedding photos to Mini treasures wiki with help of Pinterest. <br />
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You can embed photos e.g. from Flickr or Picasa but Pinterest allows you to embed almost any photo (you can add photos to Pinterest as well). Do not embed photos from other people to our wiki unless you have asked their permission.Johanna Janhonenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15609482325680853808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5731020414458332677.post-65945232511973165522012-10-07T09:54:00.000+03:002012-10-07T10:01:10.156+03:00How to get started with Mini treasures wiki editingJust created instructions of how to get started with Mini treasures wiki. You need an account and then you go.<br />
<iframe src="http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/14620672" width="427" height="356" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" style="border:1px solid #CCC;border-width:1px 1px 0;margin-bottom:5px" allowfullscreen> </iframe> <div style="margin-bottom:5px"> <strong> <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/jjanhone/embedding-photos-with-help-of-pinterest" title="Embedding photos with help of pinterest" target="_blank">Embedding photos with help of pinterest</a> </strong> from <strong><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/jjanhone" target="_blank">Hidden treasure - Piilotettu aarre</a></strong> </div>
Any comments of the instructions?Johanna Janhonenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15609482325680853808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5731020414458332677.post-59975297578418913152012-10-05T19:12:00.000+03:002012-10-05T19:12:10.604+03:00Miniature advent calendar for this year open for registration<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We have a nice tradition with advent calendars in Mini treasures wiki, we have done it already three times and every year we are getting more and more followers. Linda asked to create <a href="http://minitreasures.pbworks.com/w/page/59610355/advent_calendar_2012" target="_blank">the page for this year</a> as there are already people asking her when they can reserve their date.<br />
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If you want also to contribute to our advent calendar go and reserve a day for yourself. This year we are filling the dates well before the due date in order to avoid the hassle (it has been quite exciting for me to wait if the pages are filled in time, sometimes they werent and then I needed to invent something fast). So we are filling the pages in advance but the secret is safe - the pages are opened to public on a due date only.<br />
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What can you add to your page then? Something related to Christmas of course. You can share your project, you can make a video, printables, instructions. Use your imagination and start counting days for 1st of December when we open the first window of the Advent calendar! :)<br />
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If you have anything you want to ask about the calendar, leave a comment below and I answer you as soon as I can. :)Johanna Janhonenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15609482325680853808noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5731020414458332677.post-72851280260894626592012-08-21T17:53:00.000+03:002012-08-21T18:47:14.864+03:00Greetings from Dorothy from South AfricaDo you remember when you first visited Mini treasures wiki? I got a message from Dorothy who fell on love with our wiki and as I was very pleased about her reaction I asked if I can publish it jere. She said YES - and asked if she could help spreading the word. Please go ahead and tell all your mini friends about our site :).<br />
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I stumbled across your website yesterday - totally by accident - and
it's absolutely brilliant! I've been able to delete at least 150 other
sites that I had bookmarked because everything I need - links, blogs,
how to, etc, is all here in one place. It's so fast and easy to
navigate, and everything is so well organised! It must have taken you
months and months to set it all up and I truly appreciate your hard
work. Definitely the number 1 one stop, all in one, go to miniatures
resources site and I love, love, love it! I live in South Africa where
we don't have any miniatures shops (not one in the whole country!) so we
have either have to make our own stuff or import. Your site now makes
it so simple to source ideas or actual products. Thank you so much! </blockquote>
Johanna Janhonenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15609482325680853808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5731020414458332677.post-61619636836576045962012-04-24T15:40:00.001+03:002012-04-24T15:40:40.783+03:00MTW Award 2012 winners now on Pinterest<br />
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This morning I did some pinning, the MTW Awards 2012 sites are now found from <a href="http://pinterest.com/jjanhone/mtw-award-2012/" target="_blank">Pinterest </a>too. Happy surfing and happy pinning too! :)Johanna Janhonenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15609482325680853808noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5731020414458332677.post-88404711092449582562012-04-23T20:22:00.003+03:002012-04-23T20:22:59.429+03:00MTW Award 2012<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Howdy hoe!<br />
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It is again time to share the MTW Awards. Every year we are giving them to people who are bringing the most traffic to Mini treasures wiki. They make our site what it is by spreading the word and thus they are really valuable for the site. So once a year we are giving the credits for 25 popular mini sites. If you want to see your site in this list next year, start acting now: add links to our wiki every now and then and a <a href="http://minitreasures.pbworks.com/w/page/20982036/wiki_buttons" target="_blank">button</a> to your side bar. <br />
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I left the forums, search engines and social media services out of this list - most awards are given to a blogger.<br />
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<li><a href="http://inchscaled.com/">inchscaled.com/</a></li>
<li><a href="http://poohbeers.eigenstart.nl/"><span class="j8 f ACTION-drilldown TARGET-0-9 ">poohbeers.eigenstart.nl</span></a><span class="j8 f ACTION-drilldown TARGET-0-9 "> </span></li>
<li><span class="j8 f ACTION-drilldown TARGET-0-9 "><a href="http://nukketalo.org/">nukketalo.org/</a></span></li>
<li><span class="j8 f ACTION-drilldown TARGET-0-9 "><a href="http://casita-mini-1.jouwpagina.nl/" target="_blank">casita-mini-1.jouwpagina.nl/</a></span></li>
<li><span class="j8 f ACTION-drilldown TARGET-0-9 "><a href="http://schifka.vuodatus.net/" target="_blank">schifka.vuodatus.net/ </a></span></li>
<li><a href="http://littleroomers.blogspot.com/"><span class="j8 f ACTION-drilldown TARGET-0-16 ">littleroomers.blogspot.com</span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://hannajaleijona.blogspot.com/">hannajaleijona.blogspot.com/</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.mysmallobsession.com/"><span class="j8 f ACTION-drilldown TARGET-0-16 ">mysmallobsession.com/</span></a><table class="lb">
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<li><span class="j8 f ACTION-drilldown TARGET-0-16 "><a href="http://a-miniature-life.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">a-miniature-life.blogspot.com/ </a></span></li>
<li><span class="j8 f ACTION-drilldown TARGET-0-16 "><a href="http://ilovelittlethings.blogspot.com/">ilovelittlethings.blogspot.com/</a></span></li>
<li><a href="http://debbiestinytreasures.blogspot.com/"><span class="j8 f ACTION-drilldown TARGET-0-16 ">debbiestinytreasures.blogspot.com/</span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://adventkalender.punt.nl/" target="_blank"><span class="j8 f ACTION-drilldown TARGET-0-16 ">adventkalender.punt.nl/</span></a></li>
<li><span class="j8 f ACTION-drilldown TARGET-0-16 "><a href="http://vesperminiatures.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">vesperminiatures.blogspot.com/ </a></span></li>
<li><a href="http://nuestrasminis.blogspot.com/">nuestrasminis.blogspot.com/</a></li>
<li><a href="http://pubdolls.blogspot.com/">pubdolls.blogspot.com/</a></li>
<li><a href="http://fashiondollreview.blogspot.com/">fashiondollreview.blogspot.com/</a></li>
<li><a href="http://stalbertmini.blogspot.com/">stalbertmini.blogspot.com/</a></li>
<li><a href="http://geekgirlsfinland.blogspot.com/"><span class="j8 f ACTION-drilldown TARGET-0-66 ">geekgirlsfinland.blogspot.com</span></a></li>
<li><a href="http://snowfern-clover.blogspot.com/">snowfern-clover.blogspot.com/</a></li>
<li><a href="http://nasunnukkekoti.blogspot.com/">nasunnukkekoti.blogspot.com/</a></li>
<li><a href="http://true2scale.blogspot.com/">true2scale.blogspot.com/</a></li>
<li><a href="http://lastanzadigiuggiola.blogspot.com/">lastanzadigiuggiola.blogspot.com/</a></li>
<li><a href="http://narinanapertaa.blogspot.com/">narinanapertaa.blogspot.com/</a></li>
<li><a href="http://klarameijer.blogspot.com/">klarameijer.blogspot.com/</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.njdminiatures.com/">njdminiatures.com/</a></li>
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What is your favorite page in our wiki?<br />
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We have found a treasure! A mini treasure! It was done by Finnish miniature artisan Jaana Nykvist-Pekkarinen. She her <a href="http://jaanan.atelje.vuodatus.net/" target="_blank">blog</a>.<br />
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She actually made two sets for Mini treasures 3rd birthday. Want to get one? Go and introduce yourself at <a href="http://minitreasures.pbworks.com/w/page/20982038/wiki_members" target="_blank">Wiki members page</a> during the April and you will be part of the lottery.<br />
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If you have already done that, don´t worry: if you just update your introduction during April, you will also get the change to win a special prize made just for us :).<br />
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Good luck, I am eagerly waiting to get to know you better than I already do. :)<br />
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Enjoy our birthday month! :)Johanna Janhonenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15609482325680853808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5731020414458332677.post-32999501756716700472012-04-01T12:21:00.002+03:002012-04-01T12:21:52.594+03:00April is our Birthday month!3 years ago I realized there were no English wiki about miniatures so I started one myself. 3 years earlier I had started one in Finnish so I started to translate it but soon Mini treasures wiki grew bigger than the original.<br />
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Since then we have celebrated our birthday :).<br />
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This year there will be:<br />
- a contest. The people who edit the members page during April will enroll to a lottery (more details about this later)<br />
- 25 MTW Awards winners. It will be given to 25 sites bringing us most traffic (you will find new cool sites among them)<br />
- a possibility to make birthday wishes: tell us a wiki page you would like to get improved.<br />
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Do you have other ideas how we could celebrate the event? Since it is Easter month too, we will share also Easter goodies with you :).Johanna Janhonenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15609482325680853808noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5731020414458332677.post-19701587375245053962012-03-30T18:29:00.002+03:002012-03-30T18:29:42.297+03:001st Mini Treasures Hunt is overSometimes you win and sometimes you loose. This happened in our recent contest, Mini treasures hunt. The winners were Marottesud and Tina. The loser was me. <div>
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so now the hunt is over. We managed to improve a page about Troll dolls: http://minitreasures.pbworks.com/troll_dolls . So actually there is a third winner: everyone who are is interested about Trolls got a better wiki page to stydy :).</div>
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ps. this blog post was written with my mobile phone (that is why there's no photos or tags).</div>Johanna Janhonenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15609482325680853808noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5731020414458332677.post-15592162894200794012012-02-21T05:13:00.000+02:002012-02-21T05:13:43.568+02:00Mini treasures at Pinterest<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Many of you have already heard about Pinterest. It is a new social media service where bookmarks to cool sites are marked with photos (or videos) which makes it a huge pinboard. <a href="http://pinterest.com/jjanhone/mini-treasures/" target="_blank">Mini treasures has a board</a> there too and it is BIG. :)<br />
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In fact we have already two boards. The first one is for miniatures and <a href="http://pinterest.com/jjanhone/mini-treasures-prints/" target="_blank">the second one is for prints</a>. I wonder if we need more boards. What do you think?<br />
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We have a good group contributing to our board already but if you want to join us, just tell me and I will add you there too :).<br />
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Happy pinning!<br />
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And some goodies from our board to make the-non-pinners interested :).
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Source: <a href="http://honeyandfitz.blogspot.com/" style="color: #76838b; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: underline;">honeyandfitz.blogspot.com</a> via <a href="http://pinterest.com/tinytreasures/" style="color: #76838b; font-size: 10px; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Debbie</a> on <a href="http://pinterest.com/" style="color: #76838b; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Pinterest</a></div>
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