Filmed at The Mini Time Machine Museum of Miniatures in Tucson, AZ

TMTM Production Unit
Produced by Walter Arnell, Directed by TMTM Associate Director and Director of Education, Lisa Hastreiter-Lamb, Videography by Desert Penguin Media, Editing by Peter Tesluk.

Filmed at the event, Lagniappe- An Evening with the Artist, on December 16, 2010 at The Mini Time Machine Museum of Miniatures in Tucson, Arizona.

TMTM Production Unit
Producer: Walter Arnell. Videography: Ben Lopez

This video was filmed at The Mini Time Machine’s Members Only Sneak Preview of five new acquisitions in 2010.

TMTM Production Unit
Producer: Walter Arnell. Videography: Walter Arnell and Brandt Sleeper.

Adults get in for the youth admission price of only $6 every Thursday*
*March 1, 2012 – December 27, 2012

Feel like a kid again at The Mini Time Machine Museum of Miniatures when adults get in for the youth admission price of only $6 every Thursday. That’s a $3 savings! Grab one of our four different themed gallery guides for adults, tour the museum on your own or join a docent-led highlights tour starting at 11:30am. The museum is open from 9am-4pm on Thursdays. Please check our calendar tab for any additional programming that might be going on.

See you here!

Saturday, January 21, 2012
CNBC (Comcast Channel 27 / Cox Channel 62 in Tucson)
7:56pm Eastern
6:56pm Central
5:56pm Mountain
4:56pm Pacific

This commercial is part of our larger efforts to expand the mission of The Mini Time Machine, which is to preserve, promote and engage people with the art of miniatures. To that end, we have established a new membership category called E-Friend to enable people from afar to connect with us and become more involved.

The one-minute commercial will continue to air in over 200 markets over the next few weeks. Additionally, a short video will be distributed to Public Television affiliates for airing throughout the year.

This seven-minute video introduces the museum and its collection. Founder, Pat Arnell, tells us about the motivation behind opening the museum as a nonprofit and what was envisioned. Meet Executive Director, Nina Daldrup, and other experts as they share insight on how miniatures are used in society- and their importance to our future. We hope you enjoy this video and share it with others.

Connie Sauve: Renovated and Restyled Miniatures

Connie Sauve: Renovated and Restyled Miniatures is a selection of scenes created inside unique containers including a grandfather clock bonnet top, shotgun shell box, antique radio cabinet and two miniature automobiles. Sauve reinterprets each case by tranforming the shell into a space that is creatively linked to the original purpose of the container. For example, the grandfather clock bonnet top becomes Hickory Dickory Clock Shoppe filled with clocks of all shapes and sizes and complete with a mouse sniffing the exterior of the case.

Five miniatures created by Sauve will be on display at The Mini Time Machine Museum of Miniatures through April 29, 2012 including; Hickory Dickory Clock Shop, Emmett’s Fix-it Shop, Bumper Crop Blooms, Hittin’ the Dusty Road and Daddy’s Little Workshop. Included with regular admission.

Ms. Sauve will be at The Mini Time Machine on Tuesday, November 29, 2011 at 2pm to meet the public and talk about her work.

Artist Biography:
IGMA (International Guild of Miniature Artisans) Fellow, Connie Sauve (pronounced soh-VAY), became enchanted with miniatures in the mid 1980s when she happened upon a little Chrysnbon peanut machine in a small shop near the University of Minnesota. Soon she discovered a miniature store and before long she had her own collection of inexpensive tiny treasure and was attending a variety of miniature workshops. Miniature dolls became Sauve’s primary interest. After taking several classes on doll making, she started purchasing doll kits and porcelain, working independently to refine her doll making skills and technique. By 1991, after selling her work at several doll and miniature shows, Sauve opened her own business, The China Doll, selling 1:12 scale miniature dolls and doll clothing. In addition to her business, she also created room boxes, dollhouses, shadowboxes, stand along miniatures and unique containers in a variety of scales for her own pleasure.

Connie Sauve applied for and earned IGMA’s Artisan status for doll costuming in 1993 and by 1997 earned IGMA’s Fellow status. After twenty years in the business, Ms. Sauve’s work is in such high demand that commissioned dolls may take up to a year and a half to complete. Her work has been featured in miniature publications around the world and her pieces are included in the following museums: The Toy and Miniature Museum of Kansas City, Kentucky Gateway Museum and Holly’s Follies Miniature Museum, Virginia.