Scrappy Create
Hello I’m Becky and I’m the Crazy Lady who created the #bevandroy Series.Two 6 inch figures living in a 12th scale world. My journey into miniatures started when I was a little girl, collecting and creating with my nan. Most Sundays I would spend at my grandparents whilst my parents were exhibiting at dolls house shows. My Mum made dolls and my grandparents made furniture and accessories. On a Sunday morning we would go to bootsales and collect broken jewelry and findings to use to create miniatures, sometimes we would find 1/12th scale dolls house bits that was a bonus! In the afternoon my nan and I would set to work making little bits and bobs to fill our dolls houses, I remember making little tape measures and pin cushions which I still have today! I’ve always loved crafts and making things out of anything, I remember making a whole town once for my Sylvanian families. As I grew up miniatures faded away and life got in the way, In my mid thirties my grandparents passed and I inherited my nan’s miniature collection. I got the bug back!
People often ask me questions like: Where do you get your inspiration from?.How did you come up with that idea? Obviously a huge part of it was from my nan and my mum but I also get my ideas from everyday life. I’m not into dream dolls houses with super modern interiors or things that you wished you could own in your real human house, I’m more into the “Oh we have one of those in life size” or, “this is just like a real family kitchen”. I love to tell stories with my miniatures as most people do, I want people to know what kind of people live in my dolls house, I want it to looked lived in. I’m not in to the show home look, I like my scenes to look lived in and tell a story and that’s where #bevandroy came in.
The characters Bev and Roy started in lockdown (something which inspired a lot of people to start something new). Bev and Roy started out as paper cut outs which I used to help me with getting the scale just right and where to place objects in a scene. My followers loved the paper dolls so I decided to give them names – Bev and Roy!
I make videos of Bev and Roy’s family life and post them on social media. I have my followers in stitches of laughter and get asked when the next episode will be. I’m now on my fourth series lol! All the miniatures I make revolve around these two characters and their life. As the Bev and Roy series began to grow so did the amount of miniatures scenes and accessories I had and I was banished to the summer house at the back of the garden where I could expand (that space has now been filled to the brim!)
I make most of my miniatures myself, that’s the best part of this hobby as there are so many different skills you learn. Like how to put things together using different materials such as wood, cardstock and my 3d printers. I love to make items that you didn’t know you needed in a dolls house, such as light switches, plug sockets and rolls of sellotape.
I visit Miniatura every year with my husband, its gives me so much joy and inspiration to see what other miniaturists create and the stories they tell in their creations. After I clear out my husband’s wallet he says to me “you should have a go at exhibiting, you’ll be good at it “. So after many years of him saying that I’m taking the plunge into the next chapter.
