Forest Wonderland
Forest Wonderland is one of our book kits: it closes into a slipcased volume and opens into a woodland scene…
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Flever Magical Fate — DIY Miniature Storybook Kit
$16.98
Magical Fate opens out of its case into a fortune-teller's room: shelves of bottles, a table with a spread laid on it, drapes at the back and candles that take the warm light. The palette is deep red and bronze.
The bottle shelf is the slow step, as it always is with this kind of scene, and it is worth the evening. The case and hinge come assembled, so there is no structural risk in the build. Lit, with the room dark, the drapes are what make it work.
It sits mid-shelf of 4 storybook kits, builders have left it 4.2 out of five across 249 notes, and the current run is nearly through.
A storybook kit has to tell its whole story in two panels, so Magical Fate begins as a drawing of the rooms and ends as a handful of boxes — furniture, flowers, a shelf of bread — small enough to clear the hinge. We build this miniature house kit once ourselves before any DIY dollhouse box is packed.
- SectionStorybook Kits
- What it isIt closes like a book and opens like a room
- Builder rating4.2 out of 5 · 249 notes
- On the shelfLow stock
- Price when we looked$16.98
What arrives in your Flever miniature kit
- A hinged case and the numbered laser-cut panels that fill it.
- Shallow miniature furniture, planting and small printed decorations.
- An LED light wire and battery pack for the spine.
- Glue, tweezers, tape and a sanding stick.
- Fabric and paper flowers for the planting.
- A photographed booklet covering both panels and the fold.
How the DIY build goes
- Pick the scene you want to see when the book is open — that is the view you will keep.
- If the kit is for a desk at the office rather than a shelf at home, choose one of the quieter garden designs.
- These make the best posted gift of anything we cut, because the finished model closes and protects itself.
Every Flever storybook kit is drawn, cut and test-built in our own workshop before a single one is packed for sale.
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Other storybook kits we cut in the same workshop.
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