Toyshop
This is one of the more complicated pieces in the Shane Miniatures collection, with six rooms.
Nancy carefully planned every detail to give the appearance of lived-in or worked-in spaces, and this toy shop is both: a business and a home. The shop and workroom are on the lowest level, and the owner has a home on the 2nd and 3rd floors.
The workroom is adjacent to the toyshop, and it is complete with a dustpan, paint cans, wash tub, etc.
In the 3rd floor bedroom, playful kittens in a basket await their human companion, and it looks like the roof there needs repair – as you can see, the wallpaper has some water stains. Details like these are not due to real damage, Nancy added them to her miniatures to make them look as real as possible.
Even the kitchen and living room look as if someone has just stepped away – with newspapers rolled on the coffee table and dishes drying on the rack.
And the examples of this exquisite attention to detail go on and on, like the miniature mechanical toys in the shop that actually work! Despite their minute size, the mousetrap (center front), the fish (back left), stork (back right), and the executioner (front right) all work when their levers are pulled. The executioner may be a bit of a surprise, but like many of the details in her other miniatures, Nancy had a bit of a macabre sense of humor.