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

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