r/miniverse_makeitmini

Hi, im new to this subreddit but i love miniverses and have a bunch of the food ones, a few honeydukes, some of the lifestyle mold yourself ones, and i recently picked up some of the nature minis. I'm personally not a fan of the kinetic sand-soil they all come with and try to avoid it when possible with the food minis as well, and i would like to find a way to permanently fix them. I have the venus flytraps, morning glory and pansies from series three currently. I picked up elmers craft bond which is a similar texture to e6000 and works well for gluing the food to plates, but im hesitant to try mixing it with the sand to create a slurry. i dont want the soil to look super wet after it dries, like it would with resin. Have any of you found a good way to fix the dirt in place for your nature minis?

Oh my gosh what a nightmare. The first time I did it it was lopsided and the frosty is a nightmare for reasons I’ll get into.

The second try my cake came out perfect. It was flat and smooth. The reason the mini is so bad is thr horrible frosting.

The frosting doesn’t stick to the cake, it’s impossible to smooth out as the spatula scraps off all the frosting after one pass over. It will stick in parts so instead you have clumps of frosted parts and bare parts all together. I ended up using my finger to press ot all down but it obviously looks terrible. Then by the time I got to sprinkles the only way for them to stick was to press them in. The small sprinkles obviously can’t be pressed in because they have to sit on the surface long enough to be pressed in. I picked the cake up and poured the sprinkles on the counter and just pressed it into them. 😭

If you look at it upclose it looks like a playdoh cake someone made in the yard.

What did you successfully use to color the liquid death clear fluid? I want to use it for something besides filling the opaque can.

...when I get liquid death; I don't fill the opaque can with the clear liquid. I save the pipette to use with a capsule containing two liquid projects but only one pipette.

I just wanted to share a silly story. I had my official autism evaluation this week. My diagnosis was confirmed and the psychologist who did my evaluation told me to do something to celebrate because as a chronic illness girly I find comfort in labels/validation.

I told her during the evaluation how making my minis is one of the few craft things I do solely for my own enjoyment. A lot of times I craft with "will someone want to buy this?" in the back of my mind.

I mentioned that Target was having BOGO on Miniverse. And she's basically said "Well now you HAVE to get some to celebrate. Doctor's orders." So I did. And it brought me joy.

She told me she also collects and I explained pinholes to her. So I changed her life too a little bit lol!

Has anyone had any luck contacting MGA about missing items from your order? I ordered 5 balls total and only received 4. The missing one was a halloween ball 😩. I emailed them but no response, yet.