The excitement of thinking I was a celebrity got the best of me and I almost lost it all...well, almost all my IG followers! I recently appeared as contestant on a new HGTV reality show, The Biggest Little Christmas Showdown, a tournament- style competition to build winning miniatures. My episode aired on Friday night, December 4th and I was riding high on all the great feedback, messages and comments from friends, family and followers. The next morning, I was fielding calls

The story within a story concept was created by Darren Scala and May Burnett winners of Episode 2 of the HGTV series The Biggest Little Christmas Showdown and features a custom Victorian townhouse in a storybook structure atop golden feet with a decorated book cover with title and logo printed in a gold lettering.. The cranberry vinyl wrapped book has Florentine gold pages and a glittery gold tassel bookmark. The storybook cover opens to reveal the 2-story home of Charles Di

We were introduced to the host of the series James Monroe Iglehart - that James Monroe Iglehart, the Tony Award Winning James Monroe Iglehart! Things got heated pretty quickly when we went into supplies closet in Santa's Workshop to secure tools and supplies It was every maker for him/herself! We had to get to work pretty quickly and...just like that...minis made happy! Lots of wood-working and miniature-making filled the hours as we worked towards finishing our "Dickens Chri

A Dickens Christmas Gad’s Hill Place, England 1863 by Dame May Burnett and Sir Darren Scala It’s Christmas and the Dickens household is in final preparations for the holiday. The parlor is adorned with garlands, swags and the floor-to-ceiling evergreen has been decorated with ribbons, golden orbs and topped with a cherub angel. Gifts have been meticulously wrapped under the tree with festive name cards. “Happy Christmas, Oliver,” “Yuletide Blessings, Tim,” “Christmas Greeting

From the December 4 Issue of The Rivertowns Enterprise, Westchester County, NY Darren T. Scala of Yonkers and May Burnett of Dobbs Ferry are about to prove that miniatures are ready for the big time. Tonight (Dec. 4) at 9 p.m., the pair will be pitted against two other teams on a new four-part HGTV series, "Biggest Little Christmas Showdown.” Their challenge is to create a miniature structure, furnished with tiny objects, based on the theme "A Charles Dickens Christmas." “Bi

THE SAHLBERG by Jimmy Landers is a masterpiece of architecture, art and design in miniature and a once in a generation opportunity for a collector to own a custom cabinet house inspired by those owned by Europeans of a certain social class during the renaissance era and throughout the 18th and 19th centuries. We're thrilled to be representing Mr. Landers on the sale of this beautiful treasure! Contact Darren Scala @914-548-1984 for more information. THE SAHLBERG is an extr

BIG congratulations to Amanda Kelly from Pandaminiatures and her team partner (and fiance!) Bree Sepulveda for their awesome WIN on the first episode on the Biggest Little Christmas Showdown on HGTV which aired on Friday, November 27 on HGTV! The teams were challenged to build against the Mele Kalikimaka - a Hawaiian Christmas and Team Yellow created this awesome pontoon boat/tiki bar/beach scene. Their pontoon boat was filled with tiny details like tiny leis, a tiki bar lin